Friday, August 26, 2022

Aperitivo 7:00-7:45pm
Concert 8:00pm

Raffaele Pe e La Lira di Orfeo

Raffaele Pe, countertenor - Anais Chen, violin - André Lislevand, gamba - Gabriele Levi, harpsichord

Program

Claudio Monteverdi
Sì dolce è il tormento (Quarto Scherzo delle ariose vaghezze, 1624)
Eppur io torno (dall'Incoronazione di Poppea, monologo di Ottone, Atto I, Scena prima, 1643)

Dario Castello
Sonata XII a tre (Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo, 1629)

Claudio Monteverdi
Salve Regina (Ghirlanda sacra scelta da diversi Eccellentissimi compositori, 1625)

Dario Castello
Sonata seconda a soprano solo (Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo, 1629)

Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate Dominum (da Selva Morale e Spirituale)
Rosa del ciel (dall'Orfeo, debutto di Orfeo, Atto I, 1607)
Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi (dall'Orfeo, aria di Orfeo Atto II, 1607)

Giovanni Battista Riccio
Canzon A doi Soprani in Echo Risposta (1614)

Claudio Monteverdi
Oblivion soave (dall'Incoronazione di Poppea, aria di Arnalta, Atto II, Scena duodecima, 1643)
Voglio di vita Uscire (Ms, Archivio dei Filippini, Napoli)

RAFFAELE PE, countertenor

Described by the «Times» as "a baroque star", and an untiring promoter and reference artist of baroque culture, countertenor Raffaele Pe’s repertoire ranges from Recitar cantando to the contemporary operas specifically written for his voice.

He is regularly hosted by theatres like the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Theater an der Wien, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Opéra National du Rhine, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; and he collaborates with conductors and stage directors such as Jordi Savall, John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Giovanni Antonini, Graham Vick, Claus Guth, Pierluigi Pizzi, and Damiano Michieletto.

In 2015 he created La Lira di Orfeo, a collective of musicians, artists, and researchers with whom Raffaele Pe is carrying on a true baroque music revolution, offering a constantly rediscovered repertoire. From the creation of new critical editions to the production of new shows, Raffaele Pe and his collective move easily between the arts to create shows that look to the past with a contemporary sensibility.

Following brilliant debuts at the Berlin’s Philharmonie for the Deutschland Radio Kultur and the Theater an der Wien, and with performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Handel Festival in Halle and Goettingen, La Lira di Orfeo is now internationally recognized as a young and authoritative Italian voice in the interpretation of vocal music from the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries.

Some of its latest productions include Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, in what is the first reconstructed version for Senesino, in a collaboration with the Teatro Municipale of Piacenza; Alessandro Scarlatti’s Griselda, 300 years after its first performance; Porpora’s Angelica, for the 47th Festival della Valle D’Itria; and the modern-day revival of Porpora’s Orfeo, written in 1736 for Farinelli, a show that recently enjoyed great success at the Theater an der Wien.

The ensemble’s latest recordings include The Medici Castrato (Glossa), Alessandro Scarlatti, Concerti Sacri (Amadeus), and Giulio Cesare. A baroque Hero (Glossa), which was awarded the Italian music critics Premio Abbiati as Best Album, and was elected one of 2018’s best recording projects by the «Times» and «Die Welt». In September 2021, under the label Glossa, the ensemble published Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, a modern reconstruction of the version written for the castrato Senesino, who played the role of Aci.

From December 2015 it is the resident ensemble at the Sala della Musica of the Maria Cosway Foundation in Lodi, with the intent to enhance and spread the cultural and musical heritage of Maria Hadfield Cosway (1760-1838) within an international perspective.