Name: Il Pomo d'Oro and Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d’Amore
Start: 2023-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berwaldhallen

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Baltic Sea Festival

Conductor

Zefira Valova

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Countertenor

Jakub Józef Orliński

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Il Pomo d'Oro

Il Pomo d'Oro and Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d’Amore

Stockholm

Sweden

Berwaldhallen

Facce d'Amore - baroque pearls with Il Pomo d'Oro and Jakub Józef Orliński: Concert Various

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Castratos were the stars of the Baroque period. Castratos often played the role of the hero or lover in operas that are today more or less well-known by composers such as George Frideric Handel, Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti and Nicola Matteis. As castratos no longer physically exist, their roles are now sung by women or, as in tonight’s concert, by a countertenor.

Jakub Józef Orliński is one of the most celebrated countertenors today. He has won international acclaim for his stage interpretations and recitals. In tonight’s concert,”Facce d’Amore” (The Faces of Love), he offers a rendering of the castrato’s, or countertenor’s, many guises accompanied by the acclaimed Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro. We will encounter heroes and antiheroes, and we will hear arias sung by a perverted emperor, a heroic officer, an insubordinate soldier, and many more or less lovesick princes.

Historically, we will cover a sixty-year period, from Giovanni Antonio Boretti’s Eliogabalo from 1668 to Luca Antonio Predieri’s Scipione i Giovane from 1731, right at the end of the Baroque period. The operas are generally set in the realm between myth and reality during the Roman Empire, although there are exceptions. “Ballo dei Bagatellieri”, an intermedio – a performance between the acts – by the Italian composer Nicola Matteis, forms part of Francesco Bartolomeo Conti’s opera Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena with a libretto based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

Emotionally, the concert goes from tragedy to joy in a display of the musical diversity of the Baroque opera, from scintillating coloratura passages that show off the countertenor’s vocal range to languishing melodies.

English

Barocken var den historiska period där kastraten hade sin starkaste stjärnstatus. I opera efter opera av idag mer eller mindre välkända kompositörer så som Georg Friedrich Händel, Francesco Cavalli, Francesco Bartolemeo Conit, och Matteis Nicola spelade kastraten inte sällan hjälten eller förste älskare. Eftersom kastraten som fenomen inte längre existerar i den fysiska världen så sjungs dess roller numera av kvinnor eller som i kvällens konsert, av en countertenor.

Jakub Józef Orliński är en av de senaste årens mest framstående countertenorer som har skapat sig ett internationellt renommé för sina rollprestationer och konsertanta medverkande. Tillsammans med den hyllade barockensemblen Il Pomo d’Oro lyfter Orlinski i kvällens konsert fram kastraten eller countertenorens olika gestalter. Vi kommer att få möta så väl hjältar som antihjältar och uppleva arior sjungna av bland annat en pervers kejsare, en hjältemodig officer, en soldat som trotsar överheten och flera olika mer eller mindre kärlekskranka prinsar.

Historiskt kommer vi att röra oss under cirka 60 år, från G.A. Borettis Eliogabalo 1668 till L.A. Predieris Scipione i Giovane 1731, på gränsen till barockens slut. Romarriket, någonstans mellan mytologi och historisk verklighet är oftast spelplats, men det finns undantag. Ballo Bagatelleri ur Don Chisciotte in Siera Morena av den italienska kompositören Matteis Nicola skrevs som ett intermedi – det vill säga ett slags mellanspel till en opera med libretto baserat på Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.

Känslomässigt rör vi oss från tragedi till lycka, och hela barockoperans musikaliska bredd visas upp. Från sprittande koloraturer, som låter countertenorens vokala vidsträckthet komma fram, till de mest smäktande melodier.

svenska

Il Pomo d'Oro and Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d’Amore by Various, From (2023/2023), Conductor Zefira Valova, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden

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