Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival announces its 2023 programme

Final September we lastly made it to Bayreuth for Max Emanuel Cencic’s Bayreuth Baroque Opera Pageant which takes place within the 18th century splendour of the Margravial Opera Home. Final yr, the main target of the pageant was the primary trendy revival of Leonardo Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie in a spectacular manufacturing that recreated the premiere’s use of male singers for each female and male roles [see my review].

The programme for the 2023 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Pageant has now been introduced and the pageant, which takes place from 7 to 17 September 2023 will, for the primary time, have two staged operas. There might be a brand new manufacturing of Handel’s Flavio, Re de’ Longobardi, directed by Max Emanuel Cencic with Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko, Sonja Runje, Rémy Brès-Feuillet and Sreten Manojlovic. Benjamin Bayl will direct from the harpsichord with Concerto Köln, the resident orchestra on the pageant. Flavio dates from 1723 and was the composers fourth full-length opera for the Royal Academy of Music. Unusually concise for the interval, the opera is an fascinating mixture of tragedy and comedy.

Alongside this might be a manufacturing of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, initially seen on the Athens Megaron in 2017 as a part of the celebrations for the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s delivery. The manufacturing combines Monteverdi with new music, transcriptions and dwell electronics by Panos Iliopoulos, all a conception of music director Markellos Chryssicos. Directed by Thanos Papakonstantinou, the manufacturing options Rolando Villazón as Orfeo.

Recitals embrace counter-tenor Valer Sabadus in arias by Carl Heinrich Graun with {oh!} Orkiestra, soprano Véronique Gens in Ardour with Ensemble Les Surprises with music by Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Pascal Collasse and François Insurgent, counter-tenor Bruno de Sá explores arias from the Neapolitan faculty with nuovo barocco and tenor Daniel Behle presents arias from the second half of the 18th century which have remained unheard for the reason that time of their composition