We already know the programme of the 9th Misteria Paschalia Festival!

2-9 April 2012

In April, Kraków will again host the greatest stars of early music. The invitations to the 9th edition of Misteria Paschalia Festival has been accepted by the best singers of the genre (Roberta Invernizzi, Vivica Genaux, Josè Maria Lo Monaco, Julia Lezhneva and Magnus Staveland among the others) as well as excellent and loved by the festival audience ensembles, such as: Europa Galante, Accademia Bizantina, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble and Ensemble Matheus.

The concert will be transmitted and recorded by the Polish Radio Programme 2. The tickets and the festival pass for all concerts will be available to purchase starting from 6 February: online at www.eventim.pl, and in three InfoKraków tourist information points: at 2 Św. Jana Street, in Wyspiański Pavilion (2 Wszystkich Świętych Square) and in the Tourist Service Centre (11 Powiśle Street). Tickets prices for a single concert vary from PLN 80 to PLN 200. The festival pass for all concerts costs PLN 900.

2 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Fenice sul rogo, ovvero la morte di S. Giuseppe

Amor Divino – Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
San Michele Arcangelo – Pamela Lucciarini (soprano)
Maria Santissima – Marina de Liso (mezzosoprano)
San Giuseppe – Ferdinand von Bothmer (tenor)

Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi – concert master, conductor

3 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha Triumphans

Juditha – Josè Maria Lo Monaco (mezzosoprano)               
Holoferne – Delphine Galou (contralto)                           
Vagaus – Vivica Genaux (mezzosoprano)                             
Abra – Maria Hinojosa (soprano)                            
Ozia – Alessandra Visentin (contralto)

Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone – harpsichord, conductor

4 April 2012, 8pm
St Catherine’s Church

Dinastia Borgia

Hésperion XXI
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall – viola da gamba, artistic direction

5 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

Alessandro Scarlatti – La Giuditta

Giuditta – Roberta Mameli (soprano)
Oloferne – Marta Fumagalli (alto)
Ozia – Francesca Lombardi (soprano)
Capitano – Makoto Sakurada (tenor)
Sacerdote – Salvo Vitale (bass)

La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina – conductor

6 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach – Matheus-Passion BWV 244

Marita Solberg (soprano)
Eugénie Warnier (soprano)
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto)
Owen Willetts (alto)
Evangelist – Markus Brutscher (tenor)
Magnus Staveland (tenor)
Benoît Arnould (bass)
Jezus – Christian Immler (bass)
Jolanta Kowalska (soprano)
Mélodie Ruvio (alto)
Svetli Chaumien (tenor)
Charles Dekeyser (bass)

Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Marc Minkowski – conductor

7 April 2012, 6pm
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Chapel of St Kinga

Crux

Ensemble Peregrina
Agnieszka Budzińska-Benett – vocal, harp, artistic direction

8 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

George Frideric Handel – Arie e concerti I

Simone Kermes (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon – harpsichord, conductor

9 April 2012, 8pm
Kraków Philharmonic Hall

Antonio Vivaldi – Arie e concerti IV

Julia Lezhneva (soprano)
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christophe Spinosi – conductor