Zurich Opera House is celebrating the fascinating diversity of baroque music with a new annual festival. A rich program of operas, concerts, chamber music, family concerts and performances invites both connoisseurs and newcomers to immerse themselves in the world of early music for ten days.
The premiere of the rarely performed tragedy “Scylla et Glaucus” by French composer Jean-Marie Leclair is at the heart of the first festival edition. Cecilia Bartoli can be seen in the title role of George Frideric Handel's “Giulio Cesare”. Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky will make his opera house debut as a conductor with Handel's “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo”. Other concert highlights include Johann Sebastian Bach's two great passions with the Orchestra La Scintilla and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie (“St. John Passion”) and the Ensemble Pygmalion under the direction of Raphaël Pichon (“St. Matthew Passion”). Together with Concerto Köln, soprano Jeanine De Bique will perform a program of compositions by Handel and his contemporaries.
