EVENT AS PART OF THE FESTIVAL IN TEMPORE REGUM – Music of the Time of Kings
Johann Adolf Hasse is one of the most eminent artists of the late baroque. This German composer, whose operas were considered to be the pinnacle of excellence, for years remained in the service of Polish kings Augustus II and Augustus III. His dramma per musica La Zenobia from 1761 to the text of eminent librettist, Pietro Metastasio, is one of the three works specially composed for the court in Warsaw.
The significant, culture-shaping role played by opera music in the 18th century was demonstrated by, among others, the way it influenced the shape of religious music of the time. The phenomenon of using virtuoso vocal technique for liturgical music, often called the “opera in church”, was also seen in the way arias from Hasse’s operas were used for religious compositions. Many contrafacta – arias with substituted texts – survived in church archives scattered around the whole Commonwealth and in numerous places of worship of the 18th-century Poland. Hasse also authored strictly liturgical compositions, including the Marian antiphone Salve Regina. Requiring particular skill, the coloratura solo part was probably written for the composer’s wife and excellent opera singer – Faustina Bordoni.
Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska
THE PROGRAMME
JOHANN ADOLF HASSE
Salve Regina
1. Salve Regina
2. Ad te clamamus
3. Eja ergo
4. O clemens, o pia
La Zenobia
Aria Egle Di ricche gemme e rare
Aria Zopiro Cada, cada l’indegno
Aria Egle Ha nell’occhi un tale incanto
Aria Mitrane Pastorella, io giurerei o che avvampi
Aria Tiridate So che, sognata ancora
Aria Zopiro Salvo tu vuoi lo sposo
Aria Radamisto Non respiro
PERFORMERS
MARTA BOBERSKA SOPRANO
IWONA LUBOWICZ SOPRANO
ANNA RADZIEJEWSKA ALTO
TOMASZ KRZYSICA TENOR
THE PERIOD INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA CAPELLA REGIA POLONA
KRZYSZTOF GARSTKA CONDUCTOR
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