CARE GEMME: Laurence Kilsby & Concerto Romano

Tenor Laurence Kilsby joins Alessandro Quarta and Concerto Romano for a vibrant exploration of the birth of Italian opera: a programme alive with the atricalfire, invention and vocal brilliance.

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Centred on the revolutionary spirit of early Baroque Italy, the concert traces the moment when music stepped onto the stage as drama. In the hands of Claudio Monteverdi, the human voice became a vehicle for raw emotion; with Alessandro Scarlatti, opera blossomed into virtuosic elegance and psychological depth; and composers such as Domenico Sarro carried the tradition forward with irresistible lyricism and flair.

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Kilsby’s luminous, expressive tenor brings this music vividly to life, while Quarta and Concerto Romano, renowned for their electrifying performances of 17th- and 18th-century repertoire, recreate the colour, intimacy and rhythmic vitality of the period.

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Alessandro Quarta: Conductor

Laurence Kilsby: Tenor

Concerto Romano

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Programme:

C. Monteverdi

Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi, act II, single scene from the opera L’Orfeo, SV 318, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 1607

Son rubini amorosi, act II, scene 6 from the opera L’incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308, Venice, Teatro Ss. Giovanni ePaolo 1643

F. Cavalli

La bellezza è un don fugace, act II, scene8 from the opera Xerse, Venice, Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 1655

B. Pasquini

Sinfonia Grave – Allegro from the oratorioIl martirio dei santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia, Modena, 1687

A. Melani

O quanto è soave, act II, scene 8 from the opera Il carceriere di sé medesimo, Florence, Accademia degl’Infuocati, 1681

A. Steffani

Ogni core può sperar, act II, scene 7 from the opera Servio Tullio, Munich, Hoftheater, 1686

D. Sarro

Miei guerrieri, act I, scene 12 from the opera Il Vespasiano, Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 1707

INTERVAL

A. Scarlatti (1660 – 1725)

Sinfonia from the serenade Clori, Dorino eAmore, R 113, Naples, Palazzo Reale, 1702

A. Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)

Deh ti piega, act II, scene 3 from the opera La Fida Ninfa, RV 714, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, 1732

D. Sarro

Introduzione in Re maggiore (Sinfonia) Allegro– Adagio from the opera Partenope, Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 1722, F-Pn ,D-12741

G. A. Ristori (1692 – 1753)

Ah, fermate il pianto, act III, scene 3 from the opera Temistocle, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1738

G. F. Händel (1685 – 1759)

Fatto inferno… Pastorello d’un povero armento, act III, scene 6 from the opera Rodelinda, Regina de’ Longobardi, HWV19, London, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1725