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Program of the 2008 Misteria Paschalia Music Festival in Krakow. 

March 17th through March 24th, 2008
Note: things keep changing, so take into account, please, that the following program is liable to alterations.

MONDAY, March 17th: 
Italy’s sopranos Maria Grazia Schiavo and Emanuela Galli, alto Jose Maria Lo Monaco, tenor Mark Milhofer, and bass Joao Fernandes plus Accademia Bizantina orchestra and Coro di Accademia Bizantina choir perform the world’s premiere of Antonio Caldara oratorio of 1722, Il Re del dolore, in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street at 8 p.m. 

TUESDAY, March 18th: 
France’s renowned ensembles, Hesperion XXI and Le Concert des Nations, with conductor Jordi Savall perform his musical show, Lachrimae Caravaggio, inspired by seven paintings by Michael da Caravaggio, in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street at 8 p.m. /the world’s premiere/. 

HOLY WEDNESDAY, March 19th:
France’s ensemble, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, with conductor Marc Minkowski plus soprano Ruby Hugues, tenor Colin Blazer, and bass Joao Fernandes render Chandos Anthems by George Frideric Handel in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street at 8 p.m. 

MAUNDY THURSDAY, March 20th: 
Italy’s soprano Roberta Invernizzi, alto Sonia Prina, countertenor Martin Oro, and tenor Daniele Zanfardino plus Concerto Italiano ensemble perform Alessandra Scarlatti’s oratorio, La Santissima Annunziata in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street at 8 p.m. 

GOOD FRIDAY, March 21th: 
UK’s New London Consort ensemble with conductor Philip Pickett plus sopranos Joanne Lunn and Julia Gooding, countertenor Christopher Robson, tenor Andrew King, and baritone Michael George render Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Bibera’s Requiem in the Kosciol Sw. Jozefa church, 2 Zamoyskiego street, at 9:30 p.m.  

HOLY SATURDAY, March 22th: 
France’s soprano Catherine Padaud, tenors Jean-François Lombard and Jean-François Novelli, bass Philippe Roche, and Le Poeme Harmonique ensemble Emilia de' Cavalieri’s Lamentations in the Wieliczka Salt Mine’s Chapel of Saint Kinga at 8 p.m. 

EASTER SUNDAY, March 23th: 
Soprano Maria Grazia Schiavo, mezzo-sopranos Vivica Genaux and Lucia Cirillo, altos Marina de Liso and Romina Basso, and basso Christian Senn plus famous Europa Galante ensemble with conductor Fabio Biondi perform Antonio Vivaldi’s opera, Bajazet, in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street, at 8 p.m.  

EASTER MONDAY, March 24th: 
Italy’s soprano Roberta Invernizzi and La Risonanza ensemble with conductor Fabio Bonizzoni perform Antonio Vivaldi’s motets Sum in medio tempestatum, O qui coeli terraeque serenitas, and In turbato mare irato plus orchestral concertos in the Filharmonia concert hall, 1 Zwierzyniecka street, at 8 p.m.  

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.  


Krakow Festivals
Hardly a month passes in Krakow without some time-honored occasion for common festivities or colorful celebration

Easter in Krakow
The paramount Christian feast has a special meaning and a distinct quality in springtime Krakow with its rich Catholic traditions and abundance of beautiful
churches.

 

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