The Second Opera presents Ann Hallenberg in a visual concert of music by 18th century female composers. …facciamo opera! – roughly translated as Let’s make opera! – refers to the fact that the creation of opera can never be stopped. At a time when women were not allowed to write operas for the big stage, they did it anyway – in the monasteries and for the courts and in the form of oratorios and cantatas. Today we would definitely call their works opera and the concert presents genuine rarities just waiting to be enjoyed at the highest musical level!
Enjoy Italian composers Caterina Grazianini’s Santa Teresa, Margherita Grimani’s La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista and Rosa Coccia’s Sant-Alesso – three oratorios composed for the imperial court in Vienna. From the German aristocrat Maria Walpurgis we hear music from the opera Il Trionfo della Fedeltá and from Maria Teresa Agnesi the serenades L’Insubria Consolata and Ulisse in Campania, two grand, operatic orchestral cantatas unheard in modern times. Rosa Coccia’s Arsinoe in the modern edition by Holger Schmitt-Hallenberg receives its world premiere here – the music has never been performed before, even when it was written!
In the usual Second Opera manner, the concert also offers in-depth knowledge in the form of a conversation between the Second Opera’s musical director Hanna Fritzson and musicologist Holger Schmitt-Hallenberg.
… facciamo opera!
Eric Ericsonhallen Wednesday, November 13 at 19.00-21.00 including break. Admission is from 18:15 and there is a bar on site in the hall.
Soloist: Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano
Musical direction and harpsichord: Mariangiola Martello
Directed by Clara Svärd
Spatial concept: Bente Rolandsdotter
Ensemble: Violin Fredrik From / Hannah Tibell, Teorb Magnus Andersson, Viola Joel Sundin, Double Bass Matthias Frostensson, Oboe Per Bengtsson, Cello Johannes Rostamo.
Knowledge: Holger Schmitt?Hallenberg, musicologist talks to Hanna Fritzson, musical director of the Second Opera.
Program
Arior ur:
Caterina Grazianni:
SANTA TERESA (oratorio, ca. 1710)
Margherita Grimani:
LA DECOLLAZIONE DI SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA (orat., 1715)
Camilla de Rossi:
SANT’ALESSIO (oratorio, 1710)
IL SAGRIFIZIO D’ABRAMO (oratorio, 1708)
*PAUS*
Maria Walpurgis:
IL TRIONFO DELLA FEDELTÁ (17??)
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini:
L’INSUBRIA CONSOLATA (serenata, 1766)
ULISSE IN CAMPANIA (serenata, 1768)
Rosa Coccia:
ARSINOE (cantata, 1783) world premiere.
With the support of the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm, Stiftelsen Signatur, Längmanska Kulturfonden and Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.
