Leonardo Vinci's music revived by Franco Fagioli at Bayreuth Baroque

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 16 September 2021

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Reviewed at Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth on 11 September 2021

Vinci, Semiramide riconosciuta: Sinfonia

Vinci, Gismondo, re di Polonia: Quell’usignolo ch’è innamorato

Vinci, Artaserse: Fra cento affanni

Handel, Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3 No.1, HWV 312

Vinci, Siroe: Gelido in ogni vena

Vinci, Semiramide riconosciuta: In braccio a mille furie

Vinci, Il Medo: Sento due fiamme in petto

Vinci, Gismondo, re di Polonnia: Nave altera ch'in mezzo all'onde

Handel, Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3 No.2, HWV 313

Vinci, Catone in Utica: Quell’amor che poco accende

Vinci, Artaserse: Sinfonia

Vinci, Artaserse: Vo solcando un mar crudele

Franco Fagioli, Countertenor

Armonia Atenea

George Petrou, Conductor

Porpora's Orfeo: a plunge into the Neapolitan golden century

Lorenzo Fiorito, 2nd August

Nicola Porpora's pasticcio was one of the highlights of the 45th edition of the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca.

****1

Rivals: Max Emanuel Cenčić in Halle

Sandra Bowdler, 8th June

Max Emanuel Cenčić with Armonia Atenea under George Petrou provide an exciting and satisfying concert at the Halle Handel Festival

****1

Baroque tenor Juan Sancho at the Halle Handel Festival

Sandra Bowdler, 5th June

Rising tenor Juan Sancho sang an exciting if slightly thematically odd program, Handel's Seven Deadly Sins, at the Halle Handel Festival

****1

Jewel Arias: Scintillating Siroe at the Concertgebouw

Jenny Camilleri, 17th October

Armonia Atenea and a thrillingly virtuosic cast, led by countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić, bring Hasse’s Siroe to Amsterdam

*****

Greek myths galore from Armonia Atenea

Nahoko Gotoh, 2nd August

It is perhaps inevitable that a Greek Baroque ensemble on their first visit to the Proms would want to showcase a programme with a link to their ancient heritage.

***11

Alessandro wows the audience at Salle Pleyel

Vesna Gerintes, 23rd September

Let’s be clear: this was a performance of the highest order. From the first five notes of the overture, the sixteen-member orchestra Armonia Aténéa led by George Petrou ravished the audience of the Salle Pleyel with Handel’s full splendour.

*****

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.