Name: Candlelight Concert
Start: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Stadtkirche

Organization

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Conductor

Markellos Chryssicos

Armonia Atenea

Countertenor

Max Emanuel Cencic

counter tenor

Singer

Stefan Sbonnik

Discepolo / Consigliero

Maayan Licht

Herodiade la Figlia

Bass

Sreten Manojlovic

bass

Jake Arditti

Herodiade la Madre

Candlelight Concert

Bayreuth

Germany

Stadtkirche

San Giovanni Battista Stradella

Public

St John the Baptist

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Tenor

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

The opera didn’t have an easy time of it in seventeenth-century Rome; as a secular genre, it was too much at the mercy of papal censure. No wonder, then, that oratorios with a religious content were among the most popular and successful works in the Papal States. The scandal-ridden career of the Bolognese musician Alessandro Stradella would itself have provided rich material for many an opera – this is demonstrated at least by Friedrich von Flotow’s romantic opera of 1844 – but as a composer Stradella was able to make a name for himself primarily through his visionary instrumental music and his oratorios composed for Rome.

For Palm Sunday celebrations in 1675 he composed the popular biblical narrative for the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini: St John the Baptist comes to the court of Herod to denounce him for his adulterous relationship with his beloved Herodias. Everyone knows the plot: in doing so the holy admonisher loses his head; Herodias’s daughter had danced for Herod in too seductive a manner – a story that inspired musicians and the visual arts as did hardly any other through the centuries all the way to Richard Strauss’s Salome. Stradella’s oratorio is an early masterpiece of subtle sound configurations that attain complex portrayals through music of the individual figures. Since the conditions of the first performance made “Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils” impossible – women were prohibited from the stage just as were scenic interpretations of the Bible – the young princess enthrals here through song – a miracle in the art of musical seduction!  Faithful to the first performance, the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival presents an all-male cast in this far too rarely performed work.


Markel

English

Candlelight Concert by Stradella, Frá (2022/2022), Hljómsveitarstjóri Markellos Chryssicos, Armonia Atenea, Stadtkirche, Bayreuth, Germany

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