Jommelli – A Celebration
18 September 2024, 7.30pm – Wigmore Hall
“Jommelli, the creator of a quite new taste, and certainly one of the foremost musical geniuses who have ever lived… opened up a path all of his own.” Thus wrote the esteemed 18th century commentator C. F. Schubart of the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli, who died 250 years ago in 1774. Jommelli wrote some 80 operas as well as numerous sacred works, and was hailed during his lifetime as one of Europe’s greatest composers, but his music has subsequently fallen into neglect. In this concert, we are joined by three leading young singers for a programme featuring arias and ensembles from Jommelli’s operas, to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.
| Jommelli | “Vidi il mar tutto in procella” from Ricimero, re de’ Goti |
| “Se il povero ruscello” from Ezio | |
| “Io già sento nel mio petto” from Merope | |
| Final scene from Didone abbandonata | |
| “De’ miei desiri ormai… Che faro?” from Il Vologeso | |
| “La destra ti chiedo” from Demofoonte | |
| “Ombre che tacite qui sede” from Fetonte | |
| “Hereuse paix tranquille” from La critica | |
| “Fra l’orror di notte oscura” from Armida abbandonata | |
| “Prendi l’estremo addio” from Ifigenia in Tauride | |
| “Sol del Tebro in su la sponda” from Il trionfo di Clelia | |
| “Misera Armida… Odio, furor, dispetto” from Armida abbandonata |
Ambroisine Bré (mezzo-soprano)
Hugo Brady (tenor)
The Mozartists
Ian Page conductor
Tickets £18.00 — £50 (plus venue booking fees).
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London
W1U 2BP
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
With special thanks to The Continuo Foundation and The Thistle Trust.
“This is exactly the kind of mad thing that makes MOZART 250 so diverting: unearthing forgotten works… playing them often for the first time since the 18th century, and giving us a real feeling of the musical air Mozart was breathing.”
ROBERT THICKNESSE, OPERA NOW MAGAZINE
Jommelli
18 September 2024, 7.30pm – Wigmore Hall
“Jommelli, the creator of a quite new taste, and certainly one of the foremost musical geniuses who have ever lived… opened up a path all of his own.” Thus wrote the esteemed 18th century commentator C. F. Schubart of the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli, who died 250 years ago in 1774. Jommelli wrote some 80 operas as well as numerous sacred works, and was hailed during his lifetime as one of Europe’s greatest composers, but his music has subsequently fallen into neglect. In this concert, we are joined by three leading young singers for a programme featuring arias and ensembles from Jommelli’s operas, to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Programme
| Jommelli | “Vidi il mar tutto in procella” from Ricimero, re de’ Goti |
| “Se il povero ruscello” from Ezio | |
| “Io già sento nel mio petto” from Merope | |
| Final scene from Didone abbandonata | |
| “De’ miei desiri ormai… Che faro?” from Il Vologeso | |
| “La destra ti chiedo” from Demofoonte | |
| “Ombre che tacite qui sede” from Fetonte | |
| “Hereuse paix tranquille” from La critica | |
| “Fra l’orror di notte oscura” from Armida abbandonata | |
| “Prendi l’estremo addio” from Ifigenia in Tauride | |
| “Sol del Tebro in su la sponda” from Il trionfo di Clelia | |
| “Misera Armida… Odio, furor, dispetto” from Armida abbandonata |
Artists
Practical Information
Tickets £18.00 — £50 (plus venue booking fees).
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London
W1U 2BP
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
With special thanks to The Continuo Foundation and The Thistle Trust.
“This is exactly the kind of mad thing that makes MOZART 250 so diverting: unearthing forgotten works… playing them often for the first time since the 18th century, and giving us a real feeling of the musical air Mozart was breathing.”
ROBERT THICKNESSE, OPERA NOW MAGAZINE
Jommelli
18 September 2024, 7.30pm – Wigmore Hall
“Jommelli, the creator of a quite new taste, and certainly one of the foremost musical geniuses who have ever lived… opened up a path all of his own.” Thus wrote the esteemed 18th century commentator C. F. Schubart of the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli, who died 250 years ago in 1774. Jommelli wrote some 80 operas as well as numerous sacred works, and was hailed during his lifetime as one of Europe’s greatest composers, but his music has subsequently fallen into neglect. In this concert, we are joined by three leading young singers for a programme featuring arias and ensembles from Jommelli’s operas, to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.
Programme
| Jommelli | “Vidi il mar tutto in procella” from Ricimero, re de’ Goti |
| “Se il povero ruscello” from Ezio | |
| “Io già sento nel mio petto” from Merope | |
| Final scene from Didone abbandonata | |
| “De’ miei desiri ormai… Che faro?” from Il Vologeso | |
| “La destra ti chiedo” from Demofoonte | |
| “Ombre che tacite qui sede” from Fetonte | |
| “Hereuse paix tranquille” from La critica | |
| “Fra l’orror di notte oscura” from Armida abbandonata | |
| “Prendi l’estremo addio” from Ifigenia in Tauride | |
| “Sol del Tebro in su la sponda” from Il trionfo di Clelia | |
| “Misera Armida… Odio, furor, dispetto” from Armida abbandonata |
Artists
Practical Information
Tickets £18.00 — £50 (plus venue booking fees).
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London
W1u 2BP
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
With special thanks to The Continuo Foundation and The Thistle Trust.
“This is exactly the kind of mad thing that makes MOZART 250 so diverting: unearthing forgotten works… playing them often for the first time since the 18th century, and giving us a real feeling of the musical air Mozart was breathing.”
ROBERT THICKNESSE, OPERA NOW MAGAZINE