ACADEMIA ARS AUGUSTA
IL RE PASTORE
THE KING als shepherd
18-23.9.2022 Görlitz
Music of:
Johann Adolf Hasse and
John Christopher Richter
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
concerts:
22.9.2022 FrauenkircheTICKETS
23.9.2022 Königshain baroque palaceRESERVATIONS
The year 1762 was not an easy year for Central Europe. Frederick the Great ended his seven-year (3rd Silesian) war against the Habsburg Empire and its allies, destroying much in the process. Silesia and Dresden were some of them. Augustus III, the Saxon King of Poland and great patron of the arts, was in exile in Warsaw. For his birthday on October 7th, he commissioned his favorite court composer Johann Adolf Hasse to perform the opera "Il re pastore" in Hubertusburg in 1755, when times were still peaceful. This October 7, 1762 would be his last birthday. On October 5, 1763 he died in Dresden, which had been destroyed by the Prussians.
The theme "Il re pastore" was certainly not chosen by chance. Not only for August III: Johann Christoph Richter (1700-1785), who was not as well known as his colleague Hasse as the Dresden Kapellmeister, chose the same theme in exactly the same year, but on the German translation of the 1755 Metastasio libretto, probably to do justice to the educational potential of this libretto.
Actually, it's about a shepherd who is elected king by Alexander the Great and who proves with virtue and his human feelings of love that he really deserves it.
It is therefore a political manifesto, written in the time of the European Enlightenment and before the French Revolution, as an admonition for the rulers of Europe to look out for their people and be guided by love and common sense instead of starting poverty and wars.
With the support of the Fund for the Performing Arts, Eleni Ioannidou researched the music of Johann Christoph Richter. The music by Johann Adolf Hasse was kindly made available to us by Francois Hou from Paris.
Between 18-23.9. accompanies the ensemble in rehearsing the music, the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann (Academy for Early Music, Berlin). The result will be presented in two concerts on September 22nd in the Frauenkirche in Görlitz (at 8 p.m.) and on September 23rd. to be heard in the baroque palace of Königshain (at 7:00 p.m.).
Art direction Elena Ioannidou
Lecturer Raphael Alperman
accompaniment Anna Guja
Partner:
Youth hostel PEREGRINUS
Baroque Palace Koenigshain
Evangelical inner-city parish of Görlitz
Silesian Music Festivals GmbH
François Hou (www.ilsassone.wordpress.com)
The project "Experience Saxony's baroque together" is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media based on a resolution of the German Bundestag. It is part of the "Country Music" funding program of the German Music Council.
Ensemble Academy
Ars Augusta
Baroque violins
Pouria Kiani, Daria Skrzypek
Elias Tulchynsky (concert master)
Baroque viola
Dominika Garncarz
Baroque cello
Szczepan Dembinski
harpsichord
Justyna Wróblewska
Traverso flute
Radoslaw Orawski, Malgorzata Matuszak
Baroque horn
Tomasz Grochalski, Milena Tobor
CAST
Aminta | Amynt
A shepherd and Elisen's lover, unknown to himself at first, but later recognized by the rightful heirs of the Sidonian kingdom.
Natalia Płonka, mezzo-soprano
Since October 2016, the young singer has been studying at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, with Prof. Ewa Biegas and Dr. Eva Tracz.
She has been awarded several prizes at international singing competitions, including 1st prize at the International Singing Competition "Iuventus Canti" in Vrable, May 2019 or 3rd prize at the 24th International Mikuláš Schneider Trnavský Singing Competition, Trnava 2021. The young mezzo-soprano has also received awards at numerous chamber music competitions, e.g. B. the Polish Duo Competition, which was awarded twice in both 2019 and 2021 for the performance of chamber repertoire. In the chamber field, the singer was recently involved in a recording project for the DUX label. The newly released album features songs by Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
In terms of stage experience, the young mezzo-soprano has sung stage roles such as Dido in "Dido&Aeneas" or Elvira in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and has taken part in several important performances of modern classical pieces. In January 2022 she took part in a gala concert with the Orchestra of the Silesian Opera conducted by Maestro Tadeusz Kozłowski.
For the academic year 2020/2021 she was a scholarship holder of the Polish Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.
elisa
Eine edle Nymphe aus Phönicien und dem alten Geschlechte des Cadmus, Amynts Liebhaberin
Elena Patsalidou, soprano
The Greek-Cypriot soprano Elena Patsalidou completed her master's degree in opera singing at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden and her bachelor's degree at the Ionian University of Corfu. Her engagements include Serpina (»La Serva Padrona«) at the International Kypria Festival 2020, Clorinda (»La Cenerentola«) at Opera Classica, Echo (»Ariadne auf Naxos«) at the Landesbühnen Sachsen, Barbarina (»Le Nozze di Figaro«) and Sand-/Daumännchen (»Hansel and Gretel«) at the Mittelsächsisches Theater as well as appearances with the Dresden State Operetta Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Rhein-Main Philharmonic. Her repertoire also includes the roles of Pamina (»The Magic Flute«), Aennchen (»Der Freischutz«) and Musetta (»La Bohème«). In addition, she maintains an extensive concert and song repertoire. The soprano has won numerous singing competitions, such as 1st prize/Kyrenia Opera Vocal Competition 2019, 3rd prize/International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition 2013 and she is a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Dresden. Concert tours have taken her to Italy (Basilica San Marco, Venice), Austria (Villach Congress Center), Armenia (Jerevan Opera Theatre), Serbia (Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade) and Greece (Festival of Sacred Music, Patmos). She received important artistic impulses from master classes with Christophe Rousset (workshop on Claudio Monteverdi's operas), Walter Moore and Helga Wagner. In 2021 she took part in the "Song of Hellas" project at Ars-Augusta eV, where she recorded a selection of philhellenic songs for the accompanying CD. In 2022 she sings Valencienne (»The Merry Widow«) with Opera Classica Productions and sings as a soloist with the Ensemble Musica Sancta, among others in the French Church on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt. At the Semperoper she can be seen as the first Jente in the new production »Peer Gynt«. www.elenapatsalidou.com
Agenore | Agenor
A noble Sidonian, Alexander's friend, and Tamiri's lover
Alina Koenig Rannenberg, soprano
Alina König Rannenberg is currently studying opera at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden with Prof. Hendrikje Wangemann. In June and July 2022 she was the first boy in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Dresden State Operetta. In November 2022 she will make her debut at the Musikalische Komödie der Oper Leipzig as Daisy Gray in Leo Fall's "Die Dollarprinzessin". Alina König Rannenberg is supported by the Theo Adam scholarship in the Germany scholarship program.
The young soprano studied her bachelor’s degree in singing at the University of Music in her hometown of Nuremberg with Prof. Elisabeth Kovacs. There she gained her first experiences on the opera stage as Prima Sorella Cercatrice in Puccini's "Suor Angelica" and as Cupid in Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld", with which she also made guest appearances at the Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen. She was also part of the ensemble in Enno Poppe's "IQ" in the Bluebox of the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She received further musical impulses through master classes with Klesie Kelly, Christoph Prégardien and Juliane Banse.
Alina König Rannenberg also counts the roles of Ännchen ("Der Freischütz"), Mrs. Fiorentino (Kurt Weill "Street Scene") and the solo soprano in Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater, WA Mozart's "Exsultate, Jubilate" and JS Bach's St. John Passion and many other Bach cantatas, including BWV51 ("Rejoice with God in all lands").
tamiris
Eine flüchtige Prinzessin, des Tyrannen Strato Tochter, und Agenors Liebhaberin in Schäfer-Kleidung
Kamila Goik, soprano
Soprano Kamila Goik was born in Poland in 1994.
She is a vocal arts graduate from the K. Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, in the singing class of Prof. Ewa Biegas and a German graduate from the Silesian University in Katowice. She is the laureate of many competitions, including VIII International Singing Competition named I. Borowicka (II prize and two special
awards), I International Singing Competition named K. Szymanowski in Katowice (finalist), XVIII International Singing Competition IUVENTUS CANTI in Vrable (III prize), V International Singing Competition named J. Kiepura in Krynica-Zdrój (special award for the best performance of the German aria) , II chamber university competition for piano-singing duets in Katowice (III prize). She made her professional debut as Sandrina in WA Mozart's "La finta giardiniera" at the Silesian Opera in Bytom (2018). In her concert activities she has performances at home and abroad, among others: Solo part in the Requiem by WA Mozart in XXXV. Chopin Festival in the Kartause Gaming, a recital “Musical encounters with Poland” in cooperation with the General Consulate in Cologne, a concert “Piano Songs of Silesian Composers” in Ratingen, a concert “One Night with Szymanowski” and “Wednesday with Boys” in the seat of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Kamila Goik participates in various concerts and festivals as a soloist, including with the Symphonic Orchestra of the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, Silesian Opera in Bytom, Symphonic Orchestra of the Philharmonic in Zabrze, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Tatra Orchestra and Young Opera in Zakopane, Orchestras named G .Ph.Telemann and IPIUM Silesia.
Alexander
King of Macedonia
Pedro Matos, tenor
Born in Torres Vedras, Portugal, Pedro Matos is a multidisciplinary singer and guitarist based in Berlin. In 2014 he completed his vocal studies at the Lisbon Conservatory with Prof. Sílvia Mateus, and his studies in classical guitar in 2016 at the University of Évora with Prof. Dejan Ivanovitch. The following year he moved to Berlin to continue studying singing. He is currently studying privately with Sami Kustaloglu (voice training), Michael Smallwood and Tim Ribchester (accompaniment). Since October 2021 he has also been completing a master’s degree in historical singing with Yosemeh Adjei at the “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. In Germany and Portugal he appears as an ensemble singer with renowned ensembles such as Vocalconsort Berlin, Cantus Thuringia, Officium Ensemble, Choir “Casa da Música” Porto, Lautten Compagney and Capella Angelica, Vokalensemble sirventes Berlin and Orchester XXI. As a soloist he specializes in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, with performances as Eneas (Dido and Eneas, Purcell), Oronte (Alcina, Handel), Damon and Alvar (Les Indes Galantes, Rameau), San Giovanni (La Ressurezione, GF Handel) but also Basilio/Don Curzio (The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart). He has taken part in several master classes with singers such as Yvonne Minton, Kai Wessel, Geert Berghs and Pierre Mak. A versatile musician and artist, Pedro is interested in folk music and original compositions (Barettino Project), beatbox and dance. More information on www.pedro-matos.com
elisa (23.9.)
A noble nymph of Phoenicia and the ancient lineage of Cadmus, Amynt's lover
Clara Beyer, soprano
Clara Beyer, born in Borna near Leipzig in 1994, is a student of baroque singing at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Performing Arts in Leipzig. Music, especially singing, fulfills and enlivens her, which is why she decided to turn this passion into her profession. Clara Beyer has a degree in German and has completed a C-training as a church musician. Due to her family environment, she has been surrounded by music since she was a child. At the age of five she took part in children's choirs and theater dance groups and learned to express herself musically, verbally and physically. From an early age she began to discover music as a personal passion. She has performed at numerous concerts and music competitions, singing and playing the recorder. In addition to Dresden, her studies also took her to Leipzig and Glasgow, Scotland, where she enjoyed singing and organ lessons with various renowned teachers. Clara Beyer took singing lessons with Prof. Simone Schröder and Prof. Barbara-Christina Steude, among others. The young soprano attended master classes with Emma Kirkby, Bettina Pahn, Kai Wessel and Lisandro Abadie. She is currently being coached by countertenor Yosemeh Adjei. Clara Beyer also works as a choir director and lecturer in German as a foreign language in Leipzig.
As a soprano, she can now be heard regularly in various musical settings at home and abroad. As a soloist, Clara Beyer has sung with the Bach Choir Leipzig, the choir of the Dresden University of Church Music and as part of the Dresden Music Festival 2022. She is currently giving concerts with her a cappella quartet Q19, the Saxon Vocal Ensemble and the Ensemble Lachrymae Leipzig . Most recently, Clara Beyer took part in the International Cesti Competition in Innsbruck.
She has just rediscovered baroque opera and is extremely enthusiastic and willing to fully immerse herself in this world.
Plot
Il re pastore is based on a 1751 libretto by the Italian master poet Pietro Metastasio, a big name in the genre of serious opera. The source code comes from Torquato Tasso's early play Aminta. It takes us back to the time of Alexander the Great, who defeated the tyrant Strato in his last campaign and is now on a quest to find the rightful king of Sidon. King Alessandro soon discovers that Aminta, seemingly just a humble shepherd, is heir to the throne of Sidon.
Aminta's sudden rise in power strains his relationship with the shepherdess Elisa, as Alessandro proposes a marriage between the new king and Tamiri, Strato's daughter, to ensure a peaceful and lasting transition of power. Neither Tamiri nor Aminta want that, because each of them is in love with someone else. After much drama, King Alessandro's legendary wisdom and sense of justice prevail and Aminta ascends the throne of Sidon with his true love Elisha at his side.(www.veniceoperatickets.com)
concert program
Sinfonia (J.Ch.Richter)
Akt 1
"Geliebter Bach" Amynt (J.Ch.Richter)
"Elisa, schönstes Kind" Rez.Amynt-Elisa (J.Ch.Richter)
"Alla selva, al prato, al fonte" Elisa (J.A.Hasse)
"So machet eine Wolke sich" Alexander (J.Ch.Richter)
"Ihr allerliebsten schönen Augen" Agenor (J.Ch.Richter)
"Di tante sue procelle" Tamiris (J.A.Hasse)
PAUSE
Akt 2
"Barbar, ich bin wie dir bekennt" Elisa (J.Ch.Richter)
"Ah, per voi la pianta umile"Aminta (J.A.Hasse)
"Ach du bist ja nicht" Quartett Elisa, Tamiris, Agenor, Amynt (J.Ch.Richter)
Akt 3
"Wenn du mich jemand anders" Tamiris (J.Ch.Richter)
"Sol può dir come si trova" Agenore (J.A.Hasse)
"Ihr Götter, die ihr mir zu Ehren" Alexander (J.Ch.Richter)
"Dalla selva e dal´ovile" Coro finale (J.A.Hasse)
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