One of the world\u2019s reigning sopranos in Baroque and Classical repertoire, Karina Gauvin, and Vancouver\u2019s exciting and innovative specialists in performing \u201cearly music for modern ears,\u201d bring you a concert entitled \u201cRussian White Nights: Opera arias from 18th century St. Petersburg.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the turn of the 18th century, Peter the Great began to drag Russia, often kicking and screaming, toward the rest of Europe. His new capital, St. Petersburg, was to be a window to the West, and to that end, Peter imported Germans, Czechs, Italians, and other\u00a0nationalities\u00a0in his quest to modernize his native land. He and his successors, especially Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great, saw the opera house as an opportunity to show off their cultural wealth as a modern European nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cKarina Gauvin has proved herself one of the most delightful of Baroque sopranos. Her pellucid tone is now flecked with deeper, richer colourings, and precise, nimble coloratura.\u201d (Gramophone<\/em>)<\/p>\n Karina Gauvin, soprano Program:<\/p>\n Yevstigney Ipat\u2019yevich Fomin: Overture (Allegro) from\u00a0The Coachmen at the Relay Station<\/em><\/p>\n Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky: from\u00a0Alcide<\/em> Domenico Dall\u2019Oglio:\u00a0Sinfonia Cossaca<\/em><\/p>\n I.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Allegro Johann Adolph Hasse: Sinfonia from\u00a0La clemenza di Tito<\/em><\/p>\n Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky: from\u00a0Demofoonte<\/em> INTERMISSION<\/p>\n Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky: from\u00a0Le Faucon<\/em> Giovanni Paisiello: Divertimento Christoph Willibald Gluck: from\u00a0Armide<\/em>
\nAlexander Weimann, Music Director
\nPacific Baroque Orchestra<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMi sorprende\u201d
\n\u201cIn qual mar\u201d
\n\u201cDei clementi\u201d<\/p>\n
\nII.\u00a0 \u00a0 Andante
\nIII.\u00a0 \u00a0Allegro<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMisero pargoletto\u201d
\nViolin Sonata in C Major (Grave)
\n\u201cMentre il cor\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOuverture (Allegro spiritoso)
\nAir d\u2019Elvire: \u201cNe parlez pas\u201d<\/p>\n
\nVI.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Largo
\nIV.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amabile
\nV.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allegretto<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEnfin, il est en ma puissance\u201d
\n\u201cAh! Si la libert\u00e9\u201d
\n\u201cO ciel! Quelle horrible menace\u201d
\n\u201cGratioso\u201d
\n\u201cLe perfid Renaud me fuit\u201d<\/p>\n