BEL CANTO DI NAPOLI
Simone Kermes & Amici Veneziani
Saturday 25, January | 7:30 pm
Teatru Manoel, Valletta
This programme promises to be like a beautiful musical firework display. The works presented were composed during the golden era of Naples with arias written for Farinelli, Cafarelli and other virtuoso castrati, as well as music describing ‘la Tempesta’ by Vivaldi, Porpora, Pergolesi, Hasse, Handel and others.
PROGRAMME
Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Concerto (Sinfonia) in G Major RV 146
Nicola Antonio PORPORA (1686-1768)
Mitridate - Aria Oronta
Vedra turbato il mare
Antonio VIVALDI
Concerto in D minor RV 128
Nicola Antonio PORPORA
Polifemo - Aria Aci
Alto Giove
Antonio VIVALDI
Olimpiade - Overture
George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759)
Serse - Aria Serse
Ombra mai fu
Nicola Antonio PORPORA
Semiramide regina dell`Assiria - Aria Nino
Come nave in ria tempesta
Antonio VIVALDI
La Griselda - Arie Ottone
Dopo un’orrida procella
Concerto in G minor RV 156
Farnace - Arie Farnace
Gelido in ogni vena
Johann Adolf HASSE (1699-1783)
Symphony in G minor op. 5 No. 6
Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1710-1736)
L’Olimpiade - Aria Aristea
Antonio VIVALDI
La fida ninfa - Aria Morastro
Dite, ohimé
Johann Adolf HASSE
Viriate - Aria Siface
Come nave in mezzo all’onde
MUSICIANS
Simone Kermes, Soprano
Amici Veneziani, dir. Raffaele Tiseo