Organization

Conductor

Antonio Florio

Singer

Tenor

Ian Bostridge

Orchestra

Cappella Neapolitana

Wigmore Hall

Caresana, Cavalli, Cesti and more

London

United Kingdom

Public

Concert

Approved

Through this selection of arias, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th Century – often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago. Bostridge is partnered by conductor Antonio Florio and his acclaimed Baroque ensemble Cappella Neapolitana.

    Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
            Eliogabalo
                Misero, così va (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
            Il Corispero
                Soffrirà, spererà (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Antonio Cesti (1623-1669)
            L’Argia
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
            Il Tito
                Berenice, ove sei (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Antonio Sartorio (1630-1680)
            L’Orfeo
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)
            La Stellidaura vendicante
                Deh rendetemi ombre care (arranged by Antonio Florio)
            Lo schiavo di sua moglie
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
                Che speri mio core (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Interval
    Cristoforo Caresana (c.1640-1709)
            Le avventure di una fede
                Tien ferma Fortuna (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
            Totila
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Leonardo Vinci (c.1696-1730)
            Siroe, re di Persia
                Gelido in ogni vena (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Nicola Fago (1677-1745)
            Il Faraone sommerso
                Nuove straggi e spaventi (arranged by Antonio Florio)
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Leonardo Vinci
            Siroe, re di Persia
                Se il mio paterno amore (arranged by Antonio Florio)
            Partenope
                Sinfonia (arranged by Antonio Florio)
    Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
            Farnace RV711
                Gelido in ogni vena (arranged by Alessandro Ciccolini)

English

Caresana, Cavalli, Cesti and more by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Antonio Florio, Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom

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