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

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Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Concerto (Sinfonia) in G Major RV 146

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Nicola Antonio PORPORA (1686-1768)

Mitridate - Aria Oronta 

Vedra turbato il mare

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Antonio VIVALDI

Concerto in D minor RV 128

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Nicola Antonio PORPORA

Polifemo - Aria Aci 

Alto Giove

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Antonio VIVALDI

Olimpiade - Overture

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George Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759) 

Serse - Aria Serse 

Ombra mai fu

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Nicola Antonio PORPORA 

Semiramide regina dell`Assiria - Aria Nino 

Come nave in ria tempesta

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Antonio VIVALDI 

La Griselda - Arie Ottone 

Dopo un’orrida procella

Concerto in G minor RV 156

Farnace - Arie Farnace 

Gelido in ogni vena

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Johann Adolf HASSE (1699-1783) 

Symphony in G minor op. 5 No. 6

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Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1710-1736)

L’Olimpiade - Aria Aristea

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Antonio VIVALDI 

La fida ninfa - Aria Morastro 

Dite, ohimé 

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Johann Adolf HASSE 

Viriate - Aria Siface
Come nave in mezzo all’onde

MUSICIANS

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Simone Kermes, Soprano

Amici Veneziani, dir. Raffaele Tiseo