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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.
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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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