This concert celebrates Opera Fuoco’s latest recording, featuring three former members of the Opera Fuoco studio. Berenice is a compilation of late Baroque and early Classical works based principally on Metastasio’s famous 18th-century opera scene “Ah Berenice” from his opera Antigono. Not only was the scene set to music by such composers as Haydn and Hasse, but also by Antonio Maria Mazzoni and Marianna Martinez, a composer of Spanish descent who was widely connected to the Viennese music scene and, for a time, lived in the same noble house as Metastasio and Haydn at Grosse Michelstrasse.
The young Mozart’s concert aria “Berenice” and Johann Christian Bach’s aria “Confusa, smarrita” from the composer’s lost pasticcio opera, Berenice, as well as Hasse’s Antigono overture complement the program.
DATE AND LOCATION
Saturday 24th of November 2018 – 20h30
Théâtre de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
Saisons précédentes
12 novembre 2017
Salle Ravel de Levallois-Perret
PROGRAM
Johann Adolf Hasse
Sinfonia de l’opéra Antigono / Allegro di molto – Andantino – Allegro di molto (Dresde – 1743)
Antigono scena « Ah Berenice, che fai ? » / Recitativo – Un poco lento ma poco – Presto
Johann Christian Bach
Aria de l’opéra Catone in Utica “Confusa smarrita » / Andante espressivo (Londres – 1764)
Mariana Martinez
Scena “Ah Berenice, che fai ?”/ Recitativo – Andante – Allegro assai (Vienne – 1767)
Antonio Mazzoni
Antigono scena “Ah Berenice, che fai ?” / Récitativo – Andantino grazioso – Allegro (Lisbonne – 1755)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Recitativo et aria “Berenice… Sol nascente” (Salzburg – 1767)
Franz-Joseph Haydn
Scena di Berenice “Ah Berenice, che fai ?” (Vienne – 1795)
ARTISTS
Chantal Santon – soprano
Natalie Perez – mezzo-soprano
Axelle Fanyo – soprano
Orchestre Opera Fuoco
Direction – David Stern