La Serenissima (Venetian Silhouettes)

Description

The musical and vocal splendors of 18th-century Venice!18th-century Venice is the quintessential place of splendors: architectural, pictorial, theatrical, musical, and vocal. Venetian opera thus shines across Europe, combining dramatic force with the beauty of the vocal line. Just like Canaletto or Guardi, who paint all the faces of the Serenissima in their panoramas, composers seek to traverse the spectrum of human passions through opera. Back on record, Sophie Junker invites us to meet them, alongside Martyna Pastuszka, leading the {oh!} Orkiestra. Her brilliant and acrobatic soprano flourishes in arias of fury and vengeance (Vivaldi or Lotti), or in the heart-wrenching laments of an Iphigenia (Porta) or an Ariadne (Marcello). Martyna Pastuszka's violin, meanwhile, leads one of the splendid concertos "La Stravaganza" (the extraordinary): a beautiful subtitle for this program!