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Program of the 2012 Misteria Paschalia Music Festival in Krakow. 

9th Misteria Paschalia Festival of Classical Music takes place in Krakow from April 2nd through April 9th, 2012.
Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the following program is liable to alterations.

MONDAY, April 2nd: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street.
Italy’s sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Pamela Lucciarini, mezzo-soprano Marina de Liso, tenor Ferdinand von Bothmer, and Europa Galante ensemble with conductor Fabio Biondi perform Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s La Fenice sul rogo, ovvero la morte di S. Giuseppe. 
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street.  

TUESDAY, April 3rd: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street. 
Italy’s mezzo-sopranos Marina de Liso and Vivica Genaux, counter-alto Alessandra Visentin, soprano Maria Hinojosa. and the acclaimed early music ensemble, Accademia Bizantina with conductor and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone perform Antonio Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans. 

HOLY WEDNESDAY, April 4th:
8 p.m.
Venue: Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny church, Augustianska street and Skaleczna street.
Spain’s ensembles, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hesperion XXI, with conductor Jordi Savall perform Dinastia Borgia. 

MAUNDY THURSDAY, April 5th: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street. 
Italy’s top madrigal geoup, La Venexiana with conductor Claudio Cavina, plus sopranos Roberta Mameli and Francesca Lombardi, alto Marta Fumagalli, tenor Makoto Sakurada, and bass Salvo Vitale perform Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Giuditta.

GOOD FRIDAY, April 6th: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street.
France’s accomplished chamber orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, with conductor Marc Minkowski, plus soloist singers sopranos Marita Solberg, Eugenie Warnier, and Jolanta Kowalska, altos Nathalie Stutzmann, Owen Willetts, and Melodie Ruvio, tenors Markus Brutscher, Magnus Staveland, and Svetli Chaumien, basses Benoit Arnould, Christian Immler, and Charles Dekeyser render Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244. 

HOLY SATURDAY, April 7th: 
6 p.m.

Venue: Wieliczka Salt Mine's underground St Kinga's Chapel.
Switzerland’s Ensemble Peregrina plus vocalist and harpist Agnieszka Budzinska-Benett perform Crux, Parisian Easter music from the 13th and 14th centuries. 

EASTER SUNDAY, April 8th: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street.
Italy’s mezzo-soprano and Venice Baroque Orchestra with conductor and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon perform George Frideric Handel’s Arie e concerti I.

EASTER MONDAY, April 9th: 
8 p.m.
Venue: Filharmonia Krakowska concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street and Straszewskiego street.
Frances’s noted Baroque orchestra, Ensemble Matheus with conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi, plus soprano Julia Lezhneva perform Antonio Vivaldi’s Arie e concerti IV. 

Tickets for Misteria Paschalia concerts. 

Tickets for each event are priced from 60 zloties to 200 zloties. They are available online at www.eventim.pl and also in three InfoKraków tourist offices in Krakow situated at 2 Sw. Jana street, 2 Plac Wszystkich Swietych square, and 11 Powisle street (near the Wawel Royal Castle).

Box office
stays open at the Filharmonia Krakowska hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street, Monday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m. 

Tickets are also available at the City Information Office at 2 Sw. Jana street from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays
and every day in the Town Hall Tower on the Rynek Glowny central square from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  


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