Renowned musicologist Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Marx, Handel expert and friend of the Festival for many years now, has conceived a concert programme based on Almira, Handel’s very first work for the stage. In this year’s Stiftungskonzert, excerpts from Handel’s only surviving German-language opera are juxtaposed with earlier arrangements of the material. The Abchordis Ensemble with the soprano Marie Lys will be presenting this chamber concert in the University’s Great Hall.

During the 1670s a strong and solid school of wind instrument players began to establish itself in Naples. Il Soffio di Partenope presents a small sample of the virtuoso Neapolitan repertoire written for them including works by Alessandro Scarlatti, Nicola Fiorenza, Aniello Santangelo and others. In collaboration with Ensemble Barocco di Napoli

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