Tuesday 1 May 2018 7:30PM

Sonia Prina contralto; Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano; Concerto Copenhagen; Lars Ulrik Mortensen director

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Change of Programme
The programme for this concert has been amended from previously advertised and will now be as listed below:

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Sonia Prina contralto
Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen director

Celebrity castrati Farinelli and Senesino became bitter rivals while inspiring everyone from Handel to Hasse to write dazzling operatic arias for them.

Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, stars of today’s opera stage, pay generous homage to these two vocal titans.

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
- - Elisa
    - Vado o caro con la speranza
George Frideric Handel
- - Tamerlano HWV18
    - Più d'una tigre altero
Geminiano Giacomelli (c.1692-1740)
- - Scipione in Cartagine nuova
    - Parti dal core, lasciami in pace
George Frideric Handel
Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)
- - Astarto
    - La costanza, il timore, l'affetto
    - Mai non potrei goder
Interval
Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729)
Geminiano Giacomelli
- - Gianguir
    - Placide a miglior vita
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
- - Siroe, re di Persia
    - Parto con l'alma in pene
Antonio Lotti (1666-1740)
- - Giove in Argo
    - Quella destra sì mi porgi
Pietro Torri (c.1650-1737)
- - Nicomede
    - Vo' che in mezzo del furore
George Frideric Handel
- - Rinaldo HWV7
    - Venti turbini
Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727)
- - Eumene
    - Se non temi il mio furore