Charity Concert for the International Opera Studio

10. January 2019

Arias, ensembles and instrumental works from operas by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart («Don Giovanni», «Così fan tutte») and Gioachino Rossini («La Cenerentola», «Il barbiere di Siviglia», «Otello», «La scala di seta»)


These singers also perform at the Charity Concert:
Javier Camarena, Tenor
Huw Montague Rendall, Baritone
Justyna Bluj, Soprano (IOS)
Sinead O'Kelly, Mezzo-soprano (IOS)
Dean Murphy, Baritone (IOS)
Claudia Blersch, Scenic Direction


Cecilia Bartoli can also be heard in the revival of Georg Friedrich Handel’s «Semele» this season, singing at a gala performance on 6 January 2019.
Further information on 30 years Cecilia Bartoli at Zurich Opera House can be found here.


Music Direction:
Gianluca Capuano

Gianluca Capuano

Gianluca Capuano studierte Orgel, Komposition und Orchesterleitung am Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt Mailand sowie historische Aufführungspraxis an der Civica Scuola di Musica ebenfalls in Mailand. 2015 debütierte er an der Semperoper Dresden mit Händels Orlando, 2016 am Opernhaus Zürich mit Haydns Orlando paladino. Ebenfalls 2016 dirigierte er Norma mit Cecilia Bartoli in der Titelrolle zur Eröffnung des Edinburgh Festival, gefolgt von Aufführungen in Paris und Baden-Baden. 2017 erfolgte eine Europatournee von La Cenerentola mit Cecilia Bartoli. In jüngerer Zeit dirigierte er u.a. Ariodante, La donna del lago, Il barbiere di Siviglia und Alcina bei den Salzburger Festspielen, Händels Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno an der Oper Köln, das Weihnachtsoratorium an der Staatsoper Hamburg, Orfeo ed Euridice am Teatro dell’Opera in Rom, Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam, Mozarts Requiem in Bari, L’elisir d’amore am Teatro Real in Madrid sowie La finta giardiniera, La Cenerentola und Iphigénie en Tauride in Zürich. In der Spielzeit 2021/22 dirigierte er Le nozze di Figaro am Bolschoi-Theater in Moskau, Il turco in Italia an der Bayerischen Staatsoper, L’italiana in Algeri in Zürich und L’elisir d’amore in Hamburg, 2022/23 u.a. Alceste in Rom und Florenz sowie L’elisir d’amore an der Wiener Staatsoper. Seit 2019 ist er Chefdirigent von Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, mit denen er ein Manuel García gewidmetes Album mit Javier Camarena aufnahm sowie eine CD mit Varduhi Abrahamyan. Als Forscher widmet sich Gianluca Capuano, der auch ein Studium der Theoretischen Philosophie absolviert hat, hauptsächlich der Musikästhetik.

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Cast


Mezzosopran Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli has established herself over the course of a magnificent stage career spanning more than 30 years as one of the world’s leading classical musicians. Born in Rome and trained by her mother, the vocal coach Silvana Bazzoni, Cecilia Bartoli was discovered by Daniel Barenboim, Herbert von Karajan, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She soon began performing with other leading conductors and major orchestras in all the great opera houses and concert halls of North America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia, as well as at renowned festivals. Her artistic signature has become innovative projects dedicated to neglected music, which have resulted in extensive concert tours, best-selling recordings, spectacular stage productions, groundbreaking film formats, and multimedia events. Since 2012, Cecilia Bartoli has been Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival; as of early 2023, she also serves as Director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo – the first woman in the history of the house to hold this position. Also in Monte-Carlo, Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco was founded in 2016 under the patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II and H.R.H. Princess Caroline of Hanover: with this orchestra, which performs on historical instruments, Cecilia Bartoli appears both in Monte-Carlo and on major tours throughout Europe. Milestones in her career include the very first staging of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1997, the legendary Vivaldi album released in 1999, which has sold millions of copies, the Paris concert marathon in 2008 marking the 200th anniversary of Maria Malibran’s birth, her radically new interpretation of Bellini’s Norma in 2013 – which also resulted in a scholarly edition of the reconstructed original score – as well as a celebrated Rossini Week at the Vienna State Opera in 2022. The Cecilia Bartoli – Music Foundation was established as part of her philanthropic work. Among other projects, the foundation created a new label in collaboration with Decca, mentored by Bartoli. Thanks to this initiative, artists such as Javier Camarena and Varduhi Abrahamyan were given the opportunity to record a studio album for the first time. Numerous orders of merit and honorary doctorates, five Grammy Awards, over a dozen ECHO Klassik and BRIT Awards, the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize, and many other honors underscore Cecilia Bartoli’s significance in the world of culture and music. In this context, Europa Nostra appointed Cecilia Bartoli as its president, a role she assumed in 2022 for an initial five-year term.

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Abstract

Cecilia Bartoli has maintained close ties with our theatre ever since her début at Zurich Opera House in the 1988/89 season. Many of her role débuts were given here – and as early as 1990, her Cherubino under Nikolaus Harnoncourt caused an international sensation. Cecilia Bartoli’s interpretations of roles such as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Angelina (La cenerentola), Desdemona (Rossini’s Otello), Semele or Alcina are as unforgettable as her dedication to rarities such as Paisiello’s Nina, Halévy’s Clari, and not least Rossini’s seldom-performed opera, Le Comte Ory, in which she sang a delightful Adèle. Cecilia Bartoli has of course long since been one of the most successful singers in the world – yet she continues to maintain a special relationship with the Opera House. For this reason, the exceptional artist would also like to celebrate her 30-year stage anniversary here in Zurich with a charity concert in support of our International Opera Studio. In her gala concert under the direction of Gianluca Capuano, the mezzo-soprano will revisit the roles she has sung at Zurich Opera House over the last 30 years, and interpret arias from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini and Georg Friedrich Handel.

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