Schedule for The Venice Baroque Orchestra. Viva Vivaldi. Sonia Prina (contralto) 2022

Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Orchestra: Viva Vivaldi. The Venice Baroque Orchestra.
Contralto: Sonia Prina

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Soloist: Sonia Prina (contralto)

PROGRAMME: PROGRAMME:
Antonio Vivaldi
Symphony in C Major from the opera Il Giustino
Orlando’s aria Sorge l’irato nembo from Act II of the opera Orlando furioso
Alcina’s aria Cosм potessi anch’io from Act II of the opera Orlando furioso
Concerto in G Major for Two Violins and Basso Continuo, RV 516
Juditha’s aria Agitata infido flatu from the oratorio Juditha Triumphans
Symphony in G Minor for Strings and Basso Continuo, RV 157
Griselda’s aria Infelice Griselda... Ho il cor giа lacero from Act I of the opera La Griselda
Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins and Basso Continuo, RV 580
Licida’s aria Mentre dormi from Act I of the opera L’Olimpiade
Orlando’s aria Nel profondo cieco mondo from Act I of the opera Orlando furioso

Founded in 1997 by Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is one of the most famous ensembles in the world performing baroque music. For its concert and opera programmes in North America, Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, the orchestra has, on numerous occasions, received tremendous critical acclaim. The orchestra’s musicians dedicate much of their time and energy to discovering and performing forgotten 17^th and 18^th century masterpieces. The ensemble has been the first modern-day orchestra to perform such works as Francesco Cavalli’s L’Orione, Vivaldi’s Atenaide and Andromeda liberata, Benedetto Marcello’s La morte d’Adone and Il trionfo della poesia e della musica and Boccherini’s Clementina. At the Teatro la Fenice the orchestra has performed Cimarosa’s opera L’Olimpiade, Handel’s Siroe, re di Persia and Galuppi’s L’Olimpiade. Siroe was later revived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in its first full staging in the United States. In the 2011–2012 season the orchestra’s musicians performed Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Gloria at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, appeared in concerts in Portugal and France with soprano Patricia Petibon and performed the opera-pasticcio L’Olimpiade to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio in London, Dijon, Brussels, Paris, Athens and Siena. The same season, the orchestra also performed together with the violinist Giuliano Carmignola at the Enescu Festival and at festivals in Gstaad and Dubrovnik, with the block flautist Anna Fusek in the Czech Republic and with the singers Romina Basso in Italy and Russia and Simone Kermes in Poland. In the 2010–2011 season the orchestra toured to twenty-eight cities in the USA with violinist Robert McDuffie, presenting premiere performances of Philip Glass’ new violin concerto The American Four Seasons and tours to Japan and South Korea with Giuliano Carmignola. Moreover, this season has seen concerts in Austria and France with Patricia Petibon, performances of Vivaldi’s La Senna festeggiante at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and a series of baroque cello concerts together with Gautier Capuзon in Germany. Several TV films have been made about the ensemble by BBC, ARTE, NTR (Netherlands) and NHK. The Venice Baroque Orchestra is sponsored by the Fondazione Cassamarca in Treviso.