Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva and Rolando Villazón lead the program, made up of two operas and six lyrical concerts
Max Emanuel Cencic at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival (c) Bayreuth Media
The Festival Bayreuth Baroque, founded in 2020has made known his schedule for this yearwhich crowns a new production of ‘Flavius, King of the Lombards‘ of Handel. This title will start on September 7 at the fourth edition of the meeting and gather the voices of Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko, Sonja Runje and Rémy Brès-Feuillet in the new assembly of his own Cencic, also artistic director of the festival.
The second title on the bill is The Orpheus of Monteverdi in production of Thanos Papakonstantinouwhich will have its first performance on September 12. Markellos Chryssicos will take the baton in front of the ensemble Our Latinity and the cast congregates on stage rolando villazon like Orpheus, Theodora Baka like the music, Myrsini Margariti as Eurydice e Irina Bilini like the nymph
There are 6 recitals scheduled until September 17, the last day of the festival: accompanied by the ensemble oh! Orchestra led by the violinist Martyna Shepherdthe countertenor Valer Sabadus will interpret a monograph of Carl Heinrich Graun; Reginald Mobley will join the harpsichordist Violaine Cochard and the violagambista Christine Plubeau in the interpretation of pieces of Purcell, Handel e Ignatius Sancho; will take over Veronique People with a recital called ‘Passions’ which brings together arias of “lyrical heroines who faced their destiny”. She will be covered by Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas in front of the Together The Surprises. After his participation in Alessandro nell’Indie last summer, the Brazilian sopranist Bruno de Sa appears as a soloist with a program made up of pieces by Vinci, Pergolesi, Hasse y the people, among others. He is also a sopranist Dennis Orellana He will perform on September 16 with a program in which his voice and the timbre of the baroque trumpet intertwine. Accompanied by Julian Zimmermann on this instrument, Diego Ares to the harpsichord and Sophie Lamberbourg to the cello, they will offer works by Scarlatti, Gasparini y Caldara, among others. Lastly, the tenor closes the program of recitals Daniel Behle next to the set Köln concertorchestra in residence this edition.
