Amate Stelle: Arias for Anna Maria Strada Marie Lys, Abchordis Ensemble, Andrea Buccarella

• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): La verità in cimento, RV 739:
• 1 Vivaldi: La verità in cimento, RV 739: Con più diletto il mio cupido 03:37
• Domenico Natale Sarro (1679 - 1744): Tito Sempronio Gracco:
• 2 Sarro: Tito Sempronio Gracco: Se veglia, se dorme, l’amante mio core 07:54
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Lotario, HWV 26:
• 3 Handel: Lotario, HWV 26: Scherza in mar la navicella 06:26
• Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730): Eraclea:
• 4 Vinci: Eraclea: Io gelosa non sono - Il ruscelletto amante 05:16
• Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744): Achille in Sciro (Excerpts):
• 5 Leo: Achille in Sciro (Excerpts): Ma per pietà - Non vedi tiranno ch’io moro d’affanno 03:26
• George Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34:
• 6 Handel: Alcina, HWV 34: Ah! Mio cor! 11:13
• Leonardo Leo: Zenobia in Palmira:
• 7 Leo: Zenobia in Palmira: Quando irato il ciel s’oscura 03:14
• Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785): Adriano in Siria:
• 8 Galuppi: Adriano in Siria: Infelice in van mi lagno 07:02
• Leonardo Leo: Achille in Sciro (Excerpts):
• 9 Leo: Achille in Sciro (Excerpts): No, ingrato, amor non senti 08:19
• George Frideric Handel: Arminio, HWV 36:
• 10 Handel: Arminio, HWV 36: Scaglian amore e sangue 02:27
• Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1693 - 1753): Adriano in Siria:
• 11 Ristori: Adriano in Siria: Oh Dio, mancar mi sento 03:59
• Nicola Porpora (1686 - 1768): Tiridate (Excerpts):
• 12 Porpora: Tiridate (Excerpts): Non so più dov’io sia 04:44
• 13 Porpora: Tiridate (Excerpts): Vi conosco amate stelle 08:57
• Total Runtime 01:16:34

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Das Programm des Albums "Amate Stelle" entstand aus der großen Liebe der Sopranistin Marie Lys zu der von Händel für Anna Maria Strada Del Po geschriebenen Musik. Der Librettist von Händel, Paolo Rolli, sagte über Po: "Sie singt besser als die beiden Vorgängerinnen", womit er sich auf die berühmten Diven Cuzzoni und Bordoni bezog, sowohl was den Ausdruck als auch die dramatischen und technischen Qualitäten angeht.

Zweifellos war "la Stradina" Händels "Prima Donna" und "Favorita". Er schrieb Hunderte von Seiten unglaublicher Musik für sie, darunter auch die Hauptfigur seiner Oper "Alcina". Charles Burney, der die Gelegenheit hatte, ihre Darbietungen zu hören, betrachtete sie als eine vom Komponisten selbst "geschmiedete" Künstlerin.

Dieses pyrotechnische Konzertprogramm für Sopran und Orchester präsentiert als Weltpremiere großartige Opernarien dieser Komponisten sowie eine Auswahl von Meisterwerken Händels.

Marie Lys, Sopran
Abchordis Ensemble
Andrea Buccarella, Dirigent

Marie Lys
First prize winner of the Competition for Baroque Opera Cesti 2018 and of the Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2017, Marie Lys has collaborated with conductors such as Diego Fasolis, Alessandro De Marchi, Fabio Biondi, Christophe Rousset, Leonardo García Alarcón, Ottavio Dantone, Emmanuelle Haïm, Maxim Emelyanychev, Laurence Cummings, Guillaume Tourniaire, Laurence Equilbey, Jonathan Nott, Dmitry Sinkovsky and Dorothée Oberlinger.

More recently, Marie has enjoyed considerable success with Handel, performing Ariodante (Ginevra) and Lotario (Adelaide) both under Laurence Cummings for the Göttingen International Handel Festival, Orlando (Dorinda) under Dani Espasa in a new Rafael R. Villalobos production for the Festival Castell Peralada, Solomon (First Harlot, The Queen of Sheeba) with Peter Dijkstra/The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Utrecht and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Bellezza) alongside Fabio Biondi in Granada.

Moreover, she appeared as Dalinda (Ariodante) at the London Handel Festival, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) at the Bury Court Opera, and Galatea (Acis and Galatea) at Opéra de Massy.

She enjoys a close association with the Opera of her hometown Lausanne where she took the stage as Morgana (Handel, Alcina) with Diego Fasolis/Stefano Poda, Sophie (Massenet, Werther) in a Laurent Campellone/Vincent Boussard production, Lisa (Bellini, La Sonnambula), Adele (J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus) and L’Amour (Gluck, Orphée et Eurydice).

Marie Lys was awarded the Audience Prizes at both the Concours de chant de Toulouse (2019) and London Handel Singing Competition (2016). She won the First Prize at the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik Competition with the Abchordis Ensemble (2015) she co-founded in 2011. Their two recordings, “Stabat Mater” and “Dies Irae”, were published by Sony DHM.

For Naïve, she has recorded Vivaldi’s long-lost opera Argippo under Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante, leading to the release of a CD and followed by a tour through Europe. Again with Maestro Biondi, she appeared in the title role in Donizetti’s opera buffa Betly for the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw.

The 2022/2023 season sees Marie performing Massenet’s Werther (Sophie) at Opéra de Tours, Bernstein’s Candide (Cunégonde) at Opéra de Lausanne, Vivaldi’s Tamerlano (Irene) on an Italian tour with Ottavio Dantone and Messiah under the baton of Franco Fagioli in Versailles and Barcelona.

With Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques, Marie presents Lully’s Thésée at Theater an der Wien, Bruxelles Bozar and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

She sings Vivaldi’s Gloria under Fabio Biondi and the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Il Giustino (Leocasta) by the same composer alongside Andrea Marcon/La Cetra in Basel, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

Marie reunites with Leonardo García Alarcón/Cappella Mediterranea for a recital at Radio France in Paris and for Philippe d’Orléans’s Jérusalem délivrée, ou la Suite d’Armide (Herminie) they will present among other cities in Versailles.

With her ensemble Abchordis she presents a new programme of unpublished baroque opera arias written for Anna Maria Strada, of which a recording will be published soon.

Most recently, Marie stepped in at short notice to replace Cecilia Bartoli for the title role in Handel’s Alcina at the Florence Teatro del Maggio Musicale alongside Gianluca Capuano and Damiano Michieletto.

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