The 2021-22 season continues with a highlight of the baroque operatic repertoire: the tour of Handel's Radamisto with performances in France, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Handel's first opera performed in 1720 at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Radamisto was a great success in its time before entering a 240-year sleep. The intensity of the dramatic situations and
Anima Aeterna is the third collaboration of il Pomo d'Oro with Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński. The program of sacred arias and motets from the 18th century features several world premiere recordings. Following the path of previous albums, Anima Aeterna has also unearthed many treasures of rather unknown baroque composers such as: Bartolomeo Nucci, Gennaro Manna, a member of
This September we recorded EDEN, an ambitious new recording project with our friend Joyce DiDonato and our principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev at the Teatro Comunale of Lonigo. The wide-ranging program goes from Handel to Ives, Gluck to Mahler and Wagner, and it involved 54 musicians. Exploring the majesty, might, and mystery of Nature through both arresting and evocative music
This summer we will be touring across Europe with our friend Jakub Józef Orliński, with Il Pomo d'Oro led by and Francesco Corti and Zefira Valova. Facce d'Amore won recently the category of Best Solo Recital Album at the International Opera Awards 2021. Congratulations to all the musicians of this album! Dates 26 June: Cremona / Teatro Comunale Ponchielli 28-29 June: Paris / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées 03 July: Ljubljana / Cankarjev dom 04 July: Versailles / Chateau de
This summer will see the premiere of a new production featuring two works by Claudio Monteverdi: the semi-thematical ballet Ballo delle Ingrate and the staged madrigal Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, conducted by Francesco Corti. This production is an artistic project by ANAGOOR, with stage direction by Simone Derai. Dates 19-25 June: Cremona / Teatro Ponchielli 06-08 July: Reggio Emilia / Teatro Valli
After months of pause, we are happy to resume touring with one of the main projects on our calendar: Handel's Oreste. First performed at Covent Garden in 1734, this pasticcio opera is brilliant mix of the composer's works spanning 27 years of his creative life. In June and July we present Oreste conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev with Franco Fagioli and a star-studded cast. Dates 13 June: Essen / Philharmonie 14 June:
Antonello Manacorda and Lisette Oropesa discuss some specifics about the album Ombra Compagna such as the musical journey taken throughout the album, the orchestral writing or what makes the concert arias so challenging to sing. The album is already available on Pentatone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD13U-EiJ1A
Francesco Corti and il pomo d’oro continue their acclaimed series of Bach harpsichord concertos with a recording of the concertos BWV 1044, 1054, 1056 and 1057. This completes the cycle of seven “official” harpsichord concertos that Bach composed. Many of them are masterful reworkings of existing material, either own compositions or works by contemporaries, showing Bach’s exceptional skill
Our latest full Handel opera recording, Agrippina, is nominated in the category of Best Opera Album in the Recording Academy's Grammy 2021. The winners will be announced on Janary 31, 2021. Maxim Emelyanychev directs Il pomo d'oro in this multi-award winning recording of Handel's masterpiece, with Joyce DiDonato leading a star-studded cast that includes Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Franco Fagioli, Luca
In September 2019 we returned to Lonigo to record two new vocal programs under the musical direction of Francesco Corti: the first collaboration with the American tenor Michael Spyres, and our third album with Jakub Józef Orliński - Countertenor. The albums will be released on Erato / Warner Classics. Stay tuned for more details from both projects! Thank you