Mariana Flores

Teatro dei Sensi
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Thursday
11
Sep 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
19:30
Concert

Mariana Flores

Teatro dei Sensi

Candlelight Concert | Leonardo García-Alarcón | Cappella Mediterranea

Ordenskirche St. Georgen

The Argentinian soprano Mariana Flores has sung her way into the hearts of Baroque fans on every continent with her fiery and emotional interpretations. In recent years alongside Leonardo García-Alarcón and the Cappella Mediterranea, she has realised many exceptional projects, for which she was awarded prizes such as the Diapason d’or and the Choc de Classica

Entitled Teatro dei Sensi – Theatre of the Senses – she transports us into Venice of the seventeenth century and the music theatre cosmos of Francesco Cavalli, a composer who shaped the history of opera like hardly any other. In the pleasure-drunk Serenissima there was no centralist princely court and thus no court theatre which would have been controlled by an absolutist ruler. This encouraged the establishment of an opera culture that was not designed to please an individual person but had to woo the favour of the broad-based public. As early as 1637, the first public opera house in the world was founded with the Teatro San Cassiano, where Cavalli also brought out his first opera Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo in 1639. By the time he had written his last surviving opera Pompeo Magno (1666), he had produced around thirty works for the theatre; here, Cavalli experimented with multifaceted conceptual and musical possibilities of expression, making the emotional depth of his characters a credible and empathetic experience.

The programme Teatro dei Sensi resounds with the wide range of Cavalli’s poignant and highly emotional powers of invention, from which his successors were to reap a rich musical and dramatic harvest even into the twentieth century.

Mariana Flores Soprano
Leonardo García-Alarcón Conductor and Harpsichord
Cappella Mediterranea Orchestra in Residence of the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025

 

PROGRAMME

Venetian Operatic Arias by Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
“Mira questi due lumi”
Venere’s aria from Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639)

“Or con pania e con esca”
Meleagro’s aria from Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo [instrumental]

“Volgi, deh volgi il piede”
Procris’s lament from Gli amori di Apollo e Dafne (1640)

Sinfonia di viole a 5
from Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo

“Amanti, se credete”
Climene’s aria from Egisto (1643)

“Aprite, aprite gl’occhi”
Nerillo’s aria from aus L’Ormindo

“Udite, amanti”
Eurinda’s aria from Doriclea (1645)

“A tuo dispetto Amor”
Ceffea’s aria from Scipione affricano (1664) [instrumental]

“Occhi per pianger nati”
Eumete’s aria from La virtù dei strali d’Amore (1642)

“Dell’antro magico”
Medea’s aria from Giasone (1649)

“Dimmi Amor, che farò?”
Diomeda’s aria from Oristeo (1651)

“Lassa, che far degg’io?”
Isifile’s lament from Giasone

“Una stila di speme”
Terzetto: Jole, Dejanira, Licco from Ercole amante (1662) [instrumental]

“Restino imbalsamate”
Calisto’s aria from La Calisto (1651)

“Speranze voi che siete”
Erismena’s aria from Erismena (1655)

“Ed è pur vero, o core”
Adelante’s aria from Xerse (1655)

“Quest’è un gran caso al certo”
Valfrino’s aria from Hipermestra (1658)

Sinfonia a 3 (Prologo)
from L’Orione (1653)

“Menfi, mia patria, regno”
Ermosilla’s aria from La Statira (1655)

“Pur ti stringo, pur t’annodo”
Quartetto: Alessandro, Gemmira, Eritea, Giuliano from Eliogabalo (1667) [instrumental]

“E vuol dunque Ciprigna”
Giunone’s aria from Ercole amante

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