Opera Holland Park - Rossini’s Stabat Mater

Name: Opera Holland Park - Rossini’s Stabat Mater
Start: 2025-04-06T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Cadogan Hall

Schedule

Sun, 06 Apr, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cadogan Hall | London, EN

BOOKING OPENS FRIDAY 31 JANUARY, 10AM.
Acclaimed for its annual summer season of repertoire from verismo rarities to new commissions and insightful reinterpretations of well-known works, Opera Holland Park returns to Cadogan Hall in a Passiontide performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Pathos and drama combine in the composer’s setting of the mediaeval hymn to the grieving Virgin Mary, a worthy successor to the intimate baroque masterpieces of Pergolesi and Domenico Scarlatti since its 1842 premiere in Paris.
The first half of the programme contrasts the Stabat Mater with music from Rossini’s tragic operas Semiramide (1823) and Guillaume Tell (1829), Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (1833) and Roberto Devereux (1837), and Bellini’s Il Pirata (1827) and Norma (1831), exploring the connections between the three great bel canto composers across two decades of extraordinary invention.
PROGRAMME:
Excerpts from:
Rossini: Semiramide & Guillaume Tell
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia & Roberto Devereux
Bellini: Il pirata & Norma
~ Interval ~
Rossini: Stabat Mater
PERFORMERS:
Anne Sophie Duprels, soprano
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Gregory, tenor
Blaise Malaba, bass
John Andrews, conductor
Dominic Ellis-Peckham, chorus master
Opera Holland Park Chorus
City of London Sinfonia