After the successful sold-out performance of Paolo Fresu's project with the Lirico Orchestra , the theater, led by Superintendent Andrea Cigni, turns the page and immerses itself in the Easter atmosphere with Haydn's heavenly Stabat Mater . On Friday, April 3rd, at 8:00 PM, and Saturday, April 4th, at 7:00 PM , the Fondazione's orchestra and choir will move to the Carmen Melis Theater for the traditional Easter concert. Alessandro Cadario will conduct the two ensembles . This is the sixth concert season, two evenings not included in the season ticket.
Cadario , one of the most interesting Italian conductors and composers of his generation, previously conducted the Orchestra during the 2011 summer concert season. The soloists in Haydn's magnificent 1767 work are: Francesca Aspromonte (soprano), Margherita Maria Sala (contralto), Alasdair Kent (tenor), and Roberto Lorenzi (bass). The choirmaster is Giulio Magnanini . With the Stabat Mater, Haydn wrote his first major sacred work after beginning his service at the court of Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Composed in 1767, the work represents one of the most significant pieces of the 18th-century sacred repertoire, a work that had a profound impact.
Its rapid diffusion helped consolidate Haydn's reputation as the leading vocal composer of his time. Haydn devoted great attention to the intensity and expressiveness of this piece's images of faith. The Stabat Mater unfolds in fourteen musical pieces (symbolically equal in number to the Stations of the Cross) that retrace the Virgin Mary's pain at the foot of the cross, alternating solos, duets, concertatos, and large-scale choral interventions. The performance lasts one hour and 10 minutes and does not include an intermission.
(Unioneonline)
