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© Vendittelli
Oratorio
San Giovanni Battista
Tickets available at the box office from 7pm!
Date Fri 18.08.2017
Time 20.00
20.00 (No intermission)
Venue

Dom St. Jakob

His life was full of amorous adventures. And even church music by Alessandro Stradella is filled with sensual melodies and captivating harmonies. Stradella developed the oratorio, as created by Carissimi in Rome, further with “San Giovanni Battista”. In the process, he transformed the historicising narration into a lively drama.

“It’s very close to being an opera”, Alessandro De Marchi commented about the sacred-music masterpiece. “With this in mind, the spectacular character of Salome becomes the central figure, as her actions set the rest of the plot in motion.” She is thus the antagonist of the eponymous St John the Baptist in Stradella’s oratorio. Dramatic countertenor Lawrence Zazzo will sing the title role. Arianna Vendittelli, celebrated in 2016 for her performance in a Cesti opera, will play the part of Salome. Further roles will be sung by other winners of the Cesti competition, all of whom have since made a career for themselves on the international music scene. In line with the Roman oratorio tradition, a sermon will be preached between the two parts of the work.

Programme

Alessandro Stradella

San Giovanni Battista. Oratorium 
Lelio Colista

Sinfonia à 3 W-K30
Sinfonia à 3 W-K32
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati

Sinfonia
Historische Predigt

aus der Biblioteca Vaticana (deutsche Übersetzung)
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Artists

Alessandro De Marchi

Cembalo & Musikalische Leitung
Arianna Vendittelli

Salome (Sopran)
Lawrence Zazzo

San Giovanni Battista (Countertenor)
Luigi Di Donato

 Herode (Bass)
Fernando Guimarães

Consigliere (Tenor)
Emilie Renard

Herodias (Mezzosopran)
Academia Montis Regalis

 Orchester
Florian Huber

Predigt
fewo_20190816_haendels triumph_(c)Rupert Larl (22)
Dom zu St. Jakob

Domplatz, 6020 Innsbruck

Information
Accessibility

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Discounts

Visitors under the age of 30 -50%
Ö1 members -10%
​ÖBB Vorteilscard -10% (only at the box office)

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