After an auspicious Canadian debut with Tafelmusik again in 2023, male soprano Samuel Mariño returns to Toronto to finish the Baroque orchestra’s season on Could 23 to 25. Julia Wedman directs Tafelmusik in a program titled Opera: Bologne & Mozart.
“We will’t consider a greater method to shut the 24/25 season than with classical rockstar Samuel Marino,” says Cristina Zacharias, Tafelmusik’s Inventive Co-Director in an announcement. “This program highlights his sensational artistry and shines a light-weight on unfairly uncared for composers with essential tales to inform.”
Samuel Mariño, male soprano
Bullied as a faculty boy for his excessive talking voice, Samuel Mariño has been having the final snicker these previous few years.
The Venezuelan-born vocalist has one of many rarest voices in all of opera: that of a male soprano.
Involved concerning the bullying, when Samuel was in his teenagers, his mom took him to a medical specialist, who supplied surgical procedure that will deepen his voice. Nonetheless, the doctor additionally talked about that males with excessive voices may additionally discover a dwelling on the earth of Western classical music as countertenors. Mariño determined to take his recommendation.
He started learning piano and voice on the Nationwide Conservatory in Caracas, and studied ballet on the Nationwide College of Dance. His curiosity within the Baroque period particularly developed early, after his first operatic performances with Camerata Barroca de Caracas. He went on to pursue his research on the Conservatoire de Paris.
Alongside a busy performing profession that has taken him throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, and South Korea, Samuel has made a degree of unveiling lesser recognized and uncared for works of the Baroque and Classical eras. He typically performs and data music that was written for the male castrato singers fashionable in earlier centuries, a lot of which have by no means been recorded with a male voice.
On his album Sopranista, Samuel offers works written within the 1780s by Joseph Bologne and Domenico Cimarosa their world recording premieres, in addition to together with the work of girls composers Marianne Martines and Maria Antonia Walpurgis.
The Program
This system is drawn from his 2022 album Sopranista. It consists of:
Act 1
- Bologne: Overture from L’amant anonyme: Allegro presto
- Bologne: Concerto for violin, op. 3, no. 1: Adagio
- Bologne: Accomp & Aria “Enfin un foule importune” from L’amant anonyme, Act 2, sc 1
Act 2
- Mozart: Overture & Aria “Intendo amico rio” from Il re pastore
- Marianne Martines: Overture in C Main: Andante ma non troppo
- Mozart: Symphony 10 in G Main KV 74: Allegro
- Mozart: Accompagnato & Aria “Dove sono” from Le Nozze di Figaro
- Salieri: Aria “Sento l’amico speme” from Semiramide
Act 3
- Salieri: Sinfonia from Armida
- Gluck: Accompagnato “Berenice che fai” and Aria “Perché se tanti” from Antigono
Act 4
- Maria Antonia Walpurgis: Overture to Talestri
- Gluck: “Che farè senza Euridice” from Orfeo ed Euridice
- Walpurgis: Aria “Da me ti dividi” from Talestri, organized for cello & orchestra
- Haydn: Accompagnato “Barbaro! E ardisci ancor” & Aria “Odio, furor” from Armida, Act 2
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.