WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30TH AT 7:00 PM
The concert
We start this journey through the history of opera listening to fragments of some of the operas that laid the foundations of the genre. First, Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo and The Coronation of Poppea —works that established the structure of their successors—, and Cavalli’s Jason (Il Giasone), the first opera for which tickets were sold, and the first to leave the aristocratic precincts. Then, Scarlatti’s Mitridate Eupatore, a work that begins to take the style to a new era, and finally, we will end with the magnificence from Händel's Julius Caesar, considered the composer's greatest opera.
PULEP: OQP361Overtures and arias from operas:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
L’Orfeo
The Coronation of Poppea
Antonio Cavalli (1602-1676)
Jasón
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Mitridate Eupatore
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Julius Caesar in Egypt