August 14th, 2021
Paxton House, near Berwick-upon-Tweed
Overview
Join Opera dei Lumi as they explore the music of Marianna Martines (also known as Marianna von Martinez), a prolific and widely recognised musician and composer based in Vienna in the late 1700s. Martines lived in the same apartment building on the Michaelerplatz, Vienna, as Haydn and was a close personal friend of the seminal librettist Pietro Metastasio. Featured in the programme, we will hear Martines' exciting and dramatic setting of Metastasio's famous 'Berenice, ah, che fai', a text set by Haydn, Paisiello, Gluck and Jommelli and many others, and her vivacious Sinfonia in C. Haydn's Mercury symphony will close the evening's proceedings.
Artists
-
soprano
Peter Keenan conductor