The fine top notes that seem to spring effortlessly from Michael Spyres' golden throat, the way he plumbs the rich depths and exploits the countless timbres of his three-octave voice, is absolutely spectacular! The "Tenore assoluto" has tailored a baroque bravura program to his own taste, which would once have challenged the virtuosity of the castrati with daring leaps and coloraturas, but which also celebrates lyrical moments and also highlights some treasures of today's almost forgotten masters such as Gaetano Latilla or Antonio Mazzoni. Il Pomo d'Oro, the historically informed ensemble of distinction, sets off with Spyres on this fiery vocal journey and also contributes some instrumental gems.

This concert will be followed by a talk with the artists and Anselm Cybinski in the Festivalzentrum.

Michael Spyres

Tenor

Il Pomo d'Oro

Baroque Ensemble

Zefira Valova
Violin

Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
Violin

Giulio d'Alessio
Viola

Ludovico Minasi
Violoncello

Ismael Campanero
Double Bass

Miguel Rincon
Theorbo

Arianna Radaelli
Harpsichord

Zefira Valova

Conductor

George Frideric Handel
Aria "Empio, per farti guerra" from the opera "Tamerlano"
Aria "Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly" from the opera "Theodora"

Antonio Vivaldi
Aria "Cada pur sol capo audace" from the opera "Artabano, re de' Persia"
Concerto for Strings RV 156

Baldassare Galuppi
Aria "Vil trofeo dun alma imbelle" from the opera "Alessandro nell'indice"
Concerto a quattro in D major

Gaetano Latilla
Aria "Se il mio paterno amore" from the opera "Siroe, Re di Persia"

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Aria "Cessez de ravager la terre" from the opera "Naïs"

Nicola Antonio Porpora
Aria "Nocchier, che mai non vide l'orror della tempesta" from the opera "Germanico in Germania"

Domenico Sarro
Aria "Fra l'ombre un lampo solo"

Giuseppe Sammartini
Concerto Grosso No. 1 in A major op. 2

Johann Adolph Hasse
Aria "Solcar pensa un mar sicuro" from the opera "Arminio"

Antonio Mazzoni
Aria "Tu m'involasti un regno" from the opera "Antigono"

Auditorium of the New University Heidelberg
Universitätsplatz 1
69117 Heidelberg

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