FULL BEL CANTO TREASURES Cardiff 2023 Kezia Bienek
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: BEL CANTO TREASURES
- Composer: Donizetti, Mercadante, Rossini
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, Wales
- Recorded: June 13, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Kezia Bienek
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: James Southall, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: BBC
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: BBC iPlayer FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
On 13 June 2023, Opera Rara and Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama hosted a lunchtime concert of bel canto treasures from the Foyle Opera Rara Collection with mezzo-soprano Kezia Bienek and pianist James Southall as a part of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World’s 40th Anniversary. This lunchtime concert, curated and introduced by musicologist and bel canto specialist Roger Parker, featured songs and operatic excerpts by Gaetano Donizetti and his contemporaries, mixing well-known examples of the mezzo-soprano repertoire with songs that have been hidden in the archives since their creation in the early 19th century.
PROGRAMME:
Bei labbri che Amore formò by Gaetano Donizetti
Che non mi disse un dì! by Gaetano Donizetti
Occhio nero incendiator by Gaetano Donizetti
Sull’onda cheta e bruna by Gaetano Donizetti
La conocchia by Gaetano Donizetti
La Fiancée du timbalier by Gaetano Donizetti
Je ne me plaignis pas by Gaetano Donizetti
La primavera by Saverio Mercadante
La Folle de S.te Hélène by Gaetano Donizetti
“Cruda sorte” from L’italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini
Part of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World