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The Mascarade song recital series at the British Institute Library (Lungarno Guicciardini, 9) continues with a concert of songs with Florentine links from Rossini’s Serate Musicali, some wonderfully atmospheric Respighi, Liszt’s beautiful settings for tenor voice of the Petrarch Sonnets. This is a one-hour programme with Mascarade singers accompanied by Artistic Director Julia Lynch at the piano.

Artists:

• Luiza Willer, soprano
• Sarah Hakobyan, mezzosoprano
• Yuchen Pan, tenor
• Daniils Kuzmins, baritone
• Julia Lynch, piano

Programme:

• Serate Musicali, Rossini
• “La Promessa”
• “L’Invito”
• Cinq Mélodies “de Venise” op 58, G. Fauré
• "Mandoline" (from Fêtes galantes)
• "En sourdine" (from Fêtes galantes)
• "Green" (from Romances sans paroles)
• "À Clymène" (from Fêtes galantes)
• "C'est l'extase" (from Romances sans paroles)
• Serate Musicali, Rossini
• “La Serenata”

Canzoni, Respighi

1. Notte
2. Nebbie
3. Pioggia
4. O falce di luna

Serate Musicali, Rossini

• “La pastorella dell’Alpi”
• “La Danza”

Petrarch Sonnets, Liszt

1. Pace non trovo
2. Benedetto sia’l giorno
3. I’vidi in terra angelici costumi

The concert will start at 6.30 pm and will last about 60 minutes.

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An exclusive weekend celebrating the forgotten Florentine masterpieces from the time of the Medici Granducato

Presented by The Sacred Music Programme ‘Gonfaloniere’ Emma Beanland.

Programme:

Friday 1 December 

Palazzo Tornabuoni 

6.30pm - Welcome and pre-performance talk by the Director of The Sacred Music Programme, Mark Spyropoulos, followed by an open Masterclass with world-renowned soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and soloists of Vox Medicea and  Mascarade Opera.

7.30pm – Special presentation of a privately owned ‘St John the Baptist’ by Caravaggio,with a performance by Vox Medicea in honour of the masterpiece.

9pm - GALA DINNER AT CANTINETTA ANTINORI

Saturday 2 December

Afternoon - Lecture and tour of Florentine Medici monuments with historian and Medici scholar, Rose Byfleet. 

Palazzo Pitti - Medici State Rooms

7 pm - Pre-concert reception

8 pm - SACRED MASTERPIECES OF THE MEDICI - concert by Vox Medicea with the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble featuring first performance of works unheard for over 400 years.

9.30pm - Post-concert reception 

Sunday 3 December

Via Tornabuoni

9.30am - Morning caffè e cornetti

Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano, Via Tornabuoni

11am - MEDICI MASS - Sung high Latin Mass, with music from the era of Medici Florence, performed by Vox Medicea and the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble.

12pm - Post-mass reception

To reserve your place

sacredmusic@mascaradeopera.com

* Only 50 places available, RSVP by 20 November

SOLD OUT

Artists:

Sarah Hakobyan, mezzosoprano
Luiza Willert, soprano
Caterina Meldolesi, soprano
Yuchen Pan, tenor
Hovhannes Karapetyan, bass-baritone
Daniils Kuzmins, baritone
William Desbiens, baritone
Avishka Ederisinghe, piano
Megumi Hata, piano

Programme:

Hansel und Gretel, Humperdinck
Erstes Bild “Suse, liebe Suse”

La Bohème, Puccini
Act I “Questo mar rosso”
Act I “Chi è là?...” until the end of act

Hansel und Gretel, Humperdinck
“Der kleine Sandmann bin ich”
“Evening Prayer”

Die Lustige Witwe, Lehar
“Vilja”
“Lippen Schweigen”

Die Fledermaus, Strauss
“Champagne chorus”
“Brüderlein”
The concert will start at 7pm and will last about 60 minutes.

SOLD OUT
* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 6pm, including the offer of a glass of wine.

The concert starts at 7pm.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 7pm.

Programme:
Werther, J. Massenet
Atto III
Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
Atto I, Scena 5

Artisti:
Sarah Hakobyan, mezzo-soprano
Luiza Willert, soprano
Caterina Meldolesi, soprano
Yuchen Pan, tenor
Daniils Kuzmins, baritone
Hovhannes Karapetyan, bass-baritone
Gabriel Fortunas, bass
Avishka Edirisinghe, piano
Megumi Hata, piano

Stage Director: Federico Grazzini

Music Director: Jonathan Swinard

The concert will start at 7pm and will last about 60 minutes.

* The ticket gives you access to the Fondazione from 6pm, including the offer of a glass of wine.

The concert starts at 7pm.

Please arrive no later than 10 minutes before to access the concert hall, the doors close at 7pm.