MONTEVERDI’S VESPERS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN

On the 27th of July the 51st OperaBarga Festival begins. It’s organized by the Opera Barga Cultural Association, president Nicholas Hunt and artistic conductor Massimo Fino.

Events will take place in the charming town in various locations, alternating sacred music with chamber music, baroque music and music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Thursday, July 27, at 9.30 pm – Barga Cathedral – Opening Concert with the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin by Claudio Monteverdi (on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his birth).

Conductor: Federico Maria Sardelli

Choir and Soloists of the Ensemble and Orchestra of the Invaghiti Academy

INFO: tel / fax 0583 711068

operabarga@gmail.com

LE MUSICHE ENSEMBLE AT THE TEATRO DEI DIFFERENTI

Friday, July 28, at 9.30 pm – Teatro dei Differenti – concert by the Le Musiche Ensemble, conductor Simone Bernardini

LE MUSICHE ENSEMBLE IN THE ST. ELISABETTA CLOISTER

July 29, 6.30 pm – St. Elisabetta cloister (historical centre) – concert by the Le Musiche Ensemble, conductor Simone Bernardini

DEBORAH YORK AND PRIVITERA’S “RIME”

July 29, 9.30 pm – Teatro dei Differenti – recital with the “Rime amorose e teologiche della Nobilissima Signora Zerina Samietz di Sebenico”. (“Love and theological rhymes of the most noble lady Zerina Samietz of Šibenik”). Music by Antonello Privitera.

Performers:

 

Soprano, Deborah York

Treble viol, Alberto Rasi

Tenor viol, Claudia Pasetto

Bass viol, Paolo Biordi

Piano and direction, Stefano Salvatori

 

Deborah York is one of the most famous baroque sopranos in Europe. Graduating in musicology with the highest marks from the University of Manchester, she sings in all the major theatres of Europe and with the greatest conductors. She sang in Claudio Abbado’s last concert with the Berlin Philharmonic in May 2013, the orchestra he conducted from 1990 to 2002.

Deborah York has recorded over 40 CDs and debuted at Glyndebourne as Servilia in Mozart’s “Clemenza di Tito”. She regularly sings in the world’s major theatres (Covent Garden, Staatsoper Berlin, Opera di Roma, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Carnegie Hall, New York, Mozarteum, Palau de La Musica). She has sung Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Britten, Monteverdi, Telemann and Purcell.

LE MUSICHE ENSEMBLE IN THE ST. ELISABETTA CLOISTER

July 30, 6.30 pm – St. Elisabetta cloister (historical centre) – concert by the Le Musiche Ensemble, conductor Simone Bernardini (see photo)

FESTIVAL ‘S CLOSING CONCERT

August 5, 9:30 pm – Chiesa del SS. Crocifisso

Closing Concert with the l’Orchestra dell’ Accademia dell’Annunciata conducted by Riccardo Doni

Angelo Calvo, Pierfrancesco Pelà, Violins

Maria Bocelli, Viola

Maria Calvo,

Maria Calvo, Violoncello

Paolo Bogno, Violone

Elisa La Marca, Liuto

 

Programme:

 

Giovanni Bassano                             RICERCATA a Violino solo

Claudio Monteverdi                         SINFONIA dall’Orfeo

ARMATO IL COR – madrigale a due transposed for two violins and basso                                                                 continuo

Andrea Falconiero                             IL SPIRITILLO for Viola and Violoncello

Christofaro Caserana                        TARANTELLA  for Viola and Violoncello

 

Giovanni Gabrieli                              CANZONI   La Spiritata

Hieronymus Kapsberger                  CANZONE I for solo Lute

Dario Castello                                    SONATA XVI a 4

Antonio Vivaldi                                  SONATA Op1 n 12  “LA FOLLIA”

Antonio Vivaldi                                  CONCERTO in C major. RV 114

Baldassarre Galuppi                         CONCERTO n. 1 a quattro in A minor,

Antonio Vivaldi                                  SINFONIA in D major, RV 125

 

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