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L'Arpeggiata

Thursday, 15 August 2019, Zweisimmen Church

Orchestral Concert

Thursday, 15 August 2019
7.30 pm, Zweisimmen Church

The fashion for Italian music in France, which came to an end with the famous “Querelle des Bouffons”, started very early on. It was due to Cardinal Mazarin, all-powerful (Italian!) minister under the regency of Anne of Austria, while Louis XIV was still a child: he was the one to invite his fellow-countryman Luigi Rossi to the Court in 1647, who previously served the Pope in Rome. All credit to him, as barely a year after his arrival, Rossi literally triumphed with his Orfeo.

Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, Theorbo & Conductor

Luigi Rossi (1597-1653) 
Sinfonia from the opera «Il Palazzo incantato» 
«Vaghi Rivi», aria for Pittura from the opera «Il Palazzo incantato» 
«Begl’occhi, che dite», cantata 
«Dove mi spingi, amor», aria for Bradamante from the opera «Il Palazzo incantato» 
«Gelosia», cantata 
«Mio ben», aria for Euridice from the opera «Orfeo» 
«Dal imperio d’amore», Arie der Euridice aus der Oper «Orfeo» 
«Se dolente», cantata 
«Questo picciolo rio», cantata 
«Sol per breve tormento», aria for Bradamante from the opera «Il Palazzo incantato» 
«La bella piu bella il cor mi ferì», aria 
Ballo from the opera «Il Palazzo incantato» 
«Dormite, begl’occhi», cantata 
«Al soave spirar», Lamento d’Arianna 
«Lasciate Averno», aria for Orfeo from the opera «Orfeo» 
 90'
CHF 125/105/65