The Farnese Festival will open with the Europa Galante ensemble, considered among the world’s leading interpreters of baroque music, performing in the Farnese Theatre with the concert-form opera I Fratelli Riconosciuti. The work, with libretto by Calo Innocenzo Frugoni and music by Giovanni Maria Capelli, was first performed in Parma in the Spring season of 1726. Thanks to an important operation of recovery of the musical score, edited by Francesco Baroni and revised by Maestro Biondi, the opera is now returned to the contemporary public and enhanced through a specific monographic volume dedicated to it. The event promises to be the highlight of the third edition of the Festival, a unique opportunity to rediscover a precious page of Parma’s musical history and baroque theatre.
Artists
EUROPA GALANTE
Fabio Biondi, solo violin and conductor
Orchestra
Fabio Ravasi, Beatrice Scaldini, Barbara Altobello, violins I
Andrea Rognoni, Silvia Falavigna, Matilde Tosetti, violins II
Stefano Marcocchi, Ernest Braucher, violas
Alessandro Andriani, Perikli Pite, cellos
Paola Poncet, harpsichord
Giangiacomo Pinardi, tiorba
Emmanuel Laporte, Gabriel Pidoux, oboes
Patxi Montero, double bass
Voices
Ann Hallenberg, Attalo
Vivica Genaux, Nicomede
Roberta Mameli, Farnace
Jorge Navarro Colorado, Tiridate
Carlotta Colombo, Laodicea
Ernesta Scabini, Arsinoe