FULL MARIA (Flavio Ferri-Benedetti) Basel 2025 Michael Mogl, Cornelia Fahrion, Jenny Högström, Hélène Walter

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: MARIA  
• Composer: Ferri-Benedetti Flavio  
• Libretto: Most of the text is taken directly from the New Testament (in the latest Latin critical edition by Nestlé/Aland), with some additions: the traditional “Angelus Domini”, the medieval Stabat Mater dolorosa, and some antiphonas that sometimes merge with the Old or the New Testament.    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Pauluskirche, Basel, Switzerland  
• Recorded: September 6, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Michael Mogl, Cornelia Fahrion, Jenny Högström, Hélène Walter, Flavio Ferri-Benedetti, Ana María Fonseca, Arnaud Gluck, Yannick Badier, Marco Cassiano, Henry Van Engen, Davide Benetti, Jan Kuhar, Breno Quinderé
• Conductor: Flavio Ferri-Benedetti  
• Orchestra: Ensemble IL BASILICO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Flavio Ferri-Benedetti  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

FIRST PART: Let it be done to me!

00:00
I.1. Coro: Angelus Domini
01:27
I.2. Recit.: In mense autem sexto (Evang., Gabriel, Maria) (Lc. 1,26-38)
09:21
I.3. Coro: Ecce ancilla Domini (Lc. 1,38)
11:00
I.4. Recit.: Et discessit ab illa angelus (Evangelista) (Lc. 1,38)
11:12
I.5. Coro: Et verbum caro factum est (Io. 1,14)
12:47
I.6. Recit.: Exsurgens autem Maria (Evang., Elisabeth) (Lc. 1,39-46)
15:53
I.7. Soli e Coro: MAGNIFICAT (Lc. 1,46-55)

The second part shows episodes of Maria’s relationship with the Son. We begin at the Christmas scene, with the Christological link to the Lamb of God in the words of John the Baptist together with the antiphona “Ecce Maria genuit”, as is traditional to pair. Jesus as a 12-year old child “getting lost” in Jerusalem is also a well-known scene, as well as the Wedding at Cana as the first miracle (“sign”) of Jesus in the Gospel of John – where I tend to see the “good wine” as a prefiguration of his blood.

SECOND PART: Whatever he tells you to do, do it!
25:30
II.1. Recit.: Et peperit filium suum (Evang., Angelus) (Lc. 2,7-13)
28:22
II.2. Coro: Gloria in altissimis Deo (Lc. 2,14)
30:14
II.3. Recit.: Et factum est ut discesserunt (Evangelista) (Lc.2,15)
30:31
II.4. Coro: Transeamus usque Bethlehem (Lc.2,15)
31:11
II.5. Recit.: Et venerunt festinantes (Evangelista) (Lc.2,16-19)
33:18
II.6. Soli e Coro: Ecce Maria genuit / Alleluia (Johannes Bapt.) (Antiphona & Io. 1,29)
36:01
II.7. Recit.: Puer autem crescebat (Evang., Maria, Puer Iesus) (Lc. 2,40-43;46-51)
41:41
II.8. Sonata in corde suo (Viola da Gamba e Continuo)
43:40
II.9. Recit.: Et die tertio (Evang., Maria, Iesus, Architriclinus) (Io. 2,1-10)
49:10
II.10. Sonata boni vini (Organo)

The third part begins with the extremely touching moment at the Cross where Jesus tells his “beloved disciple” that Maria is now his mother, and he tells her that he is now her son. The Stabat Mater is intended as a portrait of Maria’s grief at the Passion. After this, we have Pentecost as the official last appearance of Maria in the New Testament – with the receiving of the Holy Spirit by the group of men and women present at the moment, in the form of tongues of fire. After this, the Dormition of Maria is depicted poetically using a medieval antiphona that quotes Sirach and the Song of Songs. Finally, the mysterious image of the Woman dressed with the Sun from Revelation is used here as a last, intense vision – crowned by the medieval text “And she was exalted…”

THIRD PART: A great sign in heaven
52:45
III.1. Recit.: Stabant autem iuxta crucem Iesu (Evang., Iesus) (Io. 19,25-27)
55:33
III.2. Soli e coro: STABAT MATER DOLOROSA
1:13:46
III.3. Recit.: Tunc reversi sunt in Ierusalem (Evangelista) (Act. 1,12-14; 2,1-14)
1:17:34
III.4. Sonata Linguarum Ignis (Organo)
1:20:40
III.5 Soprano solo: Vidi speciosam sicut columbam (Cant. 3,6; 6,8; Sirach 50,8)
1:23:07
III.6 Coro: Et signum magnum apparuit in caelo (Ap. 12,1 & Antiphona)

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