by the countertenor Raffaele Pe, and replaced in its time thanks to the performance of very famous concertos, always by the pen of the illustrious Priest Rosso…
Under the baton of their founder, Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti will present a new program at the Opéra de Lausanne, of instrumental pieces performed by the ensemble’s soloists and arias sung by counter-tenor Raffaele Pe.
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
– Concerto in C major (RV 537) for two trumpets, strings and basso continuo
Allegro, Grave, Allegro
– Extract of Teuzzone (RV 736)
“Di trombe guerriere…”
– Extract of Giustino (RV 717)
“Vedrò con mio diletto…”
– Concerto in C major (RV 425) for mandolin, strings and basso continuo
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
– Extract of Orlando (RV 728)
“Sol da te mio dolce amore…”
– Concerto da camera in G minor (RV 107) for flute, oboe, violin, bassoon and basso continuo
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
– Extract of Orlando (RV 728)
“Come l’onda…”
Intermission : 20 minutes
– Concerto in C major (RV 449) for oboe, strings and basso continuo
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
– Concerto in D minor (RV 565) for two violins, cello, strings and basso continuo
Allegro, Adagio e spiccato, Allegro, Largo e spiccato, Allegro
– Extract of Argippo (RV 697)
“A piedi miei svenato…”
– Concerto in F minor (RV 297) for violin, strings and basso continuo L’inverno
Allegro non molto “Agghiacciato tremar tra nevi algenti”
Largo “Passar al foco i di quieti e contenti mentre la pioggia fuor bagna ben cento”
Allegro “Camminar sopra il ghiaccio, e a passo lento”
– Extract of Tito Manlio (RV 738)
“Combatta un gentil cor…”
Diego Fasolis began his career as a concert organist before turning to conducting. A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, he conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Musikverein with the Vienna Concentus Musicus and the Arnold Schönberg Choir. La Scala entrusts him with the creation of an orchestra playing on period instruments, which he then conducts in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. In Milan, he also conducted Tamerlano with Plácido Domingo. With over 120 CDs released by major international labels such as EMI-Virgin, Naïve, Universal Music and Warner Classics, Diego Fasolis has received numerous awards for his commitment to rediscovering the operatic repertoire: the Disco d’Oro, the Grand Prix du Disque for his work on Handel and Vivaldi, and the Echo Klassik for Leonardo Vinci’s opera Artaserse. In 2014 and 2015, he was nominated for two Grammy Awards for the triumphant “Mission” project with works by Agostino Steffani and the “Saint Petersburg” project with Cecilia Bartoli. To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, he recorded Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with I Barocchisti in Lugano for Arte. In 2019, Diego Fasolis was named Conductor of the Year at the International Opera Awards. Recent and future engagements include Bach’s St. John Passion in Stuttgart, Donizetti’s Anna Bolena in Lugano, Reggio Emilia, Modena and Piacenza, and Vivaldi’s Tamerlano at La Fenice.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Faramondo (2009), Rinaldo (2011), Farnace (2011), L’Artaserse (2012), Dorilla in Tempe (2014), Die Zauberflöte (2015), Ariodante (2016), La clemenza di Tito (2018), Orphée et Eurydice (2019), Meyerbeer’s Gli amori di Teolinda (2019), Alcina (2022), I Barocchisti (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) (2023) and Norma (2023)
Raffaele Pe studied singing with Pietro Panzetti, Colin Baldy and Fernando Cordeiro Opa. As a member of the Monteverdi Choir’s Young artists’ program, he worked closely with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Highly sought after, he recently made his US debut at the Spoleto Festival USA, performing Delio in Veremonda. His important roles include Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Leone in Bajazet by Gasparini, Roberto in Griselda by Vivaldi and Santino in the pastiche Amore sicilianodirected by Leonardo García Alarcón. Raffaele is the first countertenor ever invited by the Verona Opera Festival where he performed Carmina Burana directed by Andrea Battistoni.
Recently, he played Hipermestra by Cavalli at the Glyndebourne Festival under the direction of William Christie in a production by Graham Vick, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in several Italian theatres and Arsace in Berenice at the Haendel Festival in Göttingen. He is a regular guest of radio and television stations such as Mezzo, Radio France, BBC and the RSI. He has released recordings with Glossa Music with the La Venexiana and I Turchini ensembles. He recently released his first solo album, The Medici Castrato.