Charity Concert for the International Opera Studio

10. January 2019

Past performances

Arias, ensembles and instrumental works from operas by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart («Don Giovanni», «Così fan tutte») and Gioachino Rossini («La Cenerentola», «Il barbiere di Siviglia», «Otello», «La scala di seta»)


These singers also perform at the Charity Concert:
Javier Camarena, Tenor
Huw Montague Rendall, Baritone
Justyna Bluj, Soprano (IOS)
Sinead O'Kelly, Mezzo-soprano (IOS)
Dean Murphy, Baritone (IOS)
Claudia Blersch, Scenic Direction


Cecilia Bartoli can also be heard in the revival of Georg Friedrich Handel’s «Semele» this season, singing at a gala performance on 6 January 2019.
Further information on 30 years Cecilia Bartoli at Zurich Opera House can be found here.

Music Direction:
Gianluca Capuano

Gianluca Capuano

Gianluca Capuano studied organ, composition, and conducting at the conservatory of his hometown Milan, as well as historical performance practice at the Civica Scuola di Musica. In 2015 he made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden with Händel’s "Orlando", and in 2016 at the Zurich Opera House with Haydn’s "Orlando paladino". In the same year he conducted "Norma" with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role for the opening of the Edinburgh Festival, followed by performances in Paris and Baden-Baden. In 2017 he undertook a European tour of "La Cenerentola" with Cecilia Bartoli. He has conducted, among others, "Ariodante" and "Alcina" at the Salzburg Festival, the "Weihnachtsoratorium" and "L’elisir d’amore" at the Hamburg State Opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice" in Rome, "Il matrimonio segreto" in Amsterdam, "L’elisir d’amore" at the Teatro Real in Madrid, "La finta giardiniera", "La Cenerentola", "Iphigénie en Tauride", and "L’italiana in Algeri" in Zurich, "Le nozze di Figaro" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and "Il turco in Italia", "Semele", "Norma", and "La Cenerentola" at the Bavarian State Opera. His most recent engagements include "La clemenza di Tito" and "Das Rheingold" at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, "Hotel Metamorphosis" at the Salzburg Festival, "La Cenerentola" at the Teatro alla Scala, "Il barbiere di Siviglia" at the Vienna State Opera, and "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" at the Teatro Regio di Parma. In 2022 he received the Premio Abbiati as "Conductor of the Year". With his ensemble Il canto di Orfeo, founded in 2005, he focuses primarily on works of the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Since 2019 he has been Chief Conductor of the ensemble Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, with whom the CD recording "Rhapsody" was recently released.

Giulio Cesare in Egitto11 / 13 / 15 / 17 / 21 / 25 / 28 Mar 2026

Cast


Mezzosopran Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli has established herself as one of the world’s leading classical musicians with her magnificent stage career spanning more than 40 years. Born in Rome and trained by her mother, the voice teacher Silvana Bazzoni, she was discovered by Daniel Barenboim, Herbert von Karajan and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Milestones included, among others, the very first staging of Rossini’s “Cenerentola” at the New York Met in 1997; the legendary “Vivaldi Album,” which since 1999 has sold millions of copies; the 2008 Paris concert marathon marking Maria Malibran’s 200th birthday; her radically new approach to Bellini’s “Norma” in 2013, which also resulted in a scholarly edition of the reconstructed original score; and a triumphant Rossini Week at the Vienna State Opera in 2022. Since 2012, Cecilia Bartoli has been Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where she has appeared in works by Handel, Gluck, Rossini, Bellini and Bernstein. Since 2023, she has also been the Director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the first woman in the history of the house to hold this position. Also in Monte-Carlo, the ensemble Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco was founded in 2016, with which Cecilia Bartoli performs both at its home base and on major tours throughout Europe. Bartoli’s CDs and DVDs have sold more than twelve million copies; she has received the Grammy Award five times. Among the many honours she has received are the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize and the Polar Music Prize. Since 2022 she has been President of Europa Nostra, was appointed Austrian Kammersängerin in 2023, and also runs the Cecilia Bartoli Music Foundation.

Giulio Cesare in Egitto11 / 13 / 15 / 17 / 21 / 25 / 28 Mar 2026
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Orchestra La Scintilla

Orchestra La Scintilla

Die Pflege der historischen Aufführungspraxis hat am Opern­haus Zürich seit dem Monteverdi-Zyklus in den 1970er Jahren Tradition. Bei der folgenden Reihe der Mozart-Opern mit dem Lei­tungs­­­team Harnoncourt/Ponnelle wurde weiter Pio­nierarbeit geleistet, und die Musikerinnen und Musiker passten ihre Spieltechnik den neue­sten Erkenntnissen der historischen Aufführungspraxis an. 1996 formierte sich aus dem Orchester der Oper ein eigenständiges Ensemble von erstklassigen spezialisierten MusikerInnen, das sich einen hervorragenden Ruf erwerben konnte. Der Funke der Begeisterung an neuer «Alter Musik» gab dem Ensemble seinen Namen: La Scintilla – der Funke. Aufführungen mit Koryphäen des Faches wie Nikolaus Har­non­court (u.a. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Idomeneo), William Christie (u.a. Orphée et Euridice, Les Indes galantes, Orlando), Mark Minkowski (Les Boréades, Giulio Cesare), Reinhard Goebel und Giuliano Carmignola gerieten so erfolgreich, dass das Opernhaus Zürich alle barocken und fast alle aus der klassischen Zeit stammenden Opern von seiner Barockforma­tion La Scintilla spielen liess und lässt. Ausserdem konzertiert das Orchestra La Scintilla der Oper Zürich mit namhaften Solisten – Instrumentalisten wie Sängern – und tritt unter der Leitung von Ada Pesch regelmässig in den gros­­sen Konzertsälen Europas wie der Londoner Royal Festival Hall, dem Concertgebouw Am­sterdam, der Philharmonie Berlin und dem KKL Luzern auf. Äusserst erfolgreich begleitete das Orchester Cecilia Bartoli auf mehrwöchigen Konzertreisen in Nordamerika und Europa (u.a. in der Carnegie Hall).

La clemenza di Tito26 / 29 Apr / 3 / 8 / 15 / 17 / 20 / 25 May 2026 2nd La Scintilla Concert15 Dec 2025 Giulio Cesare in Egitto11 / 13 / 15 / 17 / 21 / 25 / 28 Mar 2026 3. Konzert La Scintilla18 May 2026 Bezuidenhout & Minasi15 Mar 2026 Aci, Galatea e Polifemo20 / 29 Mar 2026 Johannes-Passion24 Mar 2026

Abstract

Cecilia Bartoli has maintained close ties with our theatre ever since her début at Zurich Opera House in the 1988/89 season. Many of her role débuts were given here – and as early as 1990, her Cherubino under Nikolaus Harnoncourt caused an international sensation. Cecilia Bartoli’s interpretations of roles such as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Angelina (La cenerentola), Desdemona (Rossini’s Otello), Semele or Alcina are as unforgettable as her dedication to rarities such as Paisiello’s Nina, Halévy’s Clari, and not least Rossini’s seldom-performed opera, Le Comte Ory, in which she sang a delightful Adèle. Cecilia Bartoli has of course long since been one of the most successful singers in the world – yet she continues to maintain a special relationship with the Opera House. For this reason, the exceptional artist would also like to celebrate her 30-year stage anniversary here in Zurich with a charity concert in support of our International Opera Studio. In her gala concert under the direction of Gianluca Capuano, the mezzo-soprano will revisit the roles she has sung at Zurich Opera House over the last 30 years, and interpret arias from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini and Georg Friedrich Handel.

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