Bruno de Sá, the sopranist of a thousand lights, sings Mozart, Cherubini and Cimarosa like a Baroque tightrope walker.
Hearing his supple, airy voice is always an event! On the occasion of the release of his latest album, Bruno de Sá shares with us arias of contagious enthusiasm, gliding from the last fires of the Baroque to the dawn of the Classical period. He delights us with Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate, presented here in its Salzburg version, rarely performed in concert. The young Wolfgang rewrote this motet in 1779 and gave it unprecedented vivacity. It culminates in the final movement, a real tour de force for the singer, who has to vocalise brilliantly on the single word hallelujah.
After a triumph alongside Nicolò Balducci and Théo Imart last season in the recital Les Trois Contre-Ténors and the castrato virtuosity competition, the Brazilian virtuoso is back in all his splendour at the Opéra Royal!
The programme:
First part: 40 min
Intermission
Second part: 40 min
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Hob. I:8 ‘Evening
I - Allegro molto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Exultate Jubilate
I - Exsultate jubilate
II - Fulget amica dies
III - Tu virginum corona
IV - Alleluja
Prelude and fugue in G minor, KV 404a
- Adagio
- Fugue (after J.S. Bach BWV 883)
Grabmusik
IV - Betracht dies Herz und frage mich (Die Engel)
Luigi Caruso (1754-1823)
Il Fanatico per la musica Act I, scene 6: ‘n mezzo a mille affanni’ (Lindoro)
Intermission
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Requiem in G minor
V - Preces Meae
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Mesenzio, king of Etruria : ‘ No, do not seek for now... The great revenge yet ’ (Lauso)
Franz Beck (1723-1809)
L'Isle Déserte : Ouverture
Felice Alessandrini (1747-1798)
Alexander in the Indies : ‘ Se possono tanto luci vezzose ’ (Poro)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ouverture (Allegro - Andante - Presto)
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814)
Andromeda : Accompanied and Rondo : ‘ Voi sacre piante... Deh socorri, o padre il figlio ’ (Perseus)