The Valletta International Baroque Festival was set up in 2013 to create a unique annual January event that celebrates Valletta as a quintessentially baroque city. The festival uses a number of wonderful baroque and historical locations throughout its two week musical extravaganza celebrating the aristocratic grandeur of Malta’s capital city.
The Festival will again this year venture out of Valletta to other baroque venues including: Mdina, the old Siculo-Norman capital where one can still see the columns of roman temples in its foundations, Birgu (Vittoriosa) and Senglea (L-Isla) which lie across the Grand Harbour from Valletta and form part of what is referred to as The Three Cities; and Rabat, Ghaxaq, Qrendi and Zejtun – all boasting exquisite examples of Malta’s baroque heritage.
Visit http://vallettabaroquefestival.com.mt/ for tickets and more information.
Check out the Programme below:
11 January, 19:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Extravaganzas for Mandolin
Performers: Capella Gabetta, Andrés Gabetta, Violin & Direction, and Avi Avital, Mandolin
12 January, 12:00, Oratory of the Crucifix, Senglea
The Heart of Sensibility
Performers: Reiko Ichise, Viola da Gamba and Jennifer Morsches, Cello
12 January, 16:00, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel
Performers: Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Director, andEmilie Rose Bry, Soprano
12 January, 19:30, St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
The Goldberg Variations on Organ
Performer: Hansjörg Albrecht, Organist and Conductor
12 January, 21:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Barock ‘n’ Roll
Performers: Matheus Ensemble and Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Director
13 January, 12:00, Aula Capitulare, Mdina Cathedral
The Seasons
Performer: PRISMA
13 January, 17:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Vivica Genaux is Farinelli
Performers: Concerto de’ Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa, Director, and Vivica Genaux, Mezzo Soprano
14 January, 12:00, Grand Salon at the Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Sacrificium
Performers: Imago Mundi, Sofie Vanden Eynde, Theorbo and artistic direction, and Lore Binon, Soprano
14 January, 19:30, Malta Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa
Timeless
Performer: Lautten Compagney
15 January, 12:00, Our Lady of Victories Church, Valletta
Music from the Fairest Isle: Lute Song by Dowland and Purcell
Performers: Claire Debono, Soprano and Benjamin Narvey, Lute
15 January, 19:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Inspired By Baroque
Performers: Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and Michalis Economou, Director
16 January, 12:00, The Oratory of the Rosary, Basilica of St Dominic, Valletta
The splendour of the viol
Performer: Fahmi Alqhai, Director and Viola da gamba
16 January, 19:30, Ta Ġieżu Church, Rabat
Ich Habe Genug
Performers: Ensemble Zefiro and Alfredo Bernardini, Oboist and Director
17 January, 12:00, National Library, Valletta
Dans la chambre du roy
Performers: Ensemble Flame, Eric Tinkerhess, Viola da Gamba, andTakahisa Aida, Harpsichord
17 January, 19:30, St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral, Valletta
Handel Concerto
Performer: Valletta International Baroque Ensemble
18 January, 12:00, St Catherine Church, Valletta
Bach Flute Sonatas
Performers: Ashley Solomon, Flute and Terence Charlston, Harpsichord
18 January, 19:30, Grand Salon at the Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Muera Cupido – Music by Sebastian Duron
Performers: Accademia del Piacere, Nuria Rial, Soprano, and Fahmi Alqhai, Director and Viola da gamba
19 January, 12:00, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Musica Poetica – Bach Cantata and Concertos
Performers: Ensemble Alia Mens and Olivier Spilmont, Director
19 January, 16:00, Oratory of Our Lady of Charity, Valletta
Back to the Future
Performer: Lucile Boulanger, Viola da Gamba
19 January, 19:30, Collegiate Basilica of Our Lady of Victories, Senglea
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo by Antonio Caldara
Performers: Divino Sospiro, Massimo Mazzeo, Director, Gemma Bertagnolli, Soprano, Silvia Frigato, Soprano, Filippo Mineccia, Counter Tenor, Giuseppina Bridellli, Mezzo Soprano, Fernando Guimarães, Tenor, and Hugo Oliveira, Bass
20 January, 12:00, Malta Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa
Venus & Adonis by Johann Christoph Pepusch
Performer: The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
20 January, 17:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Bach to Balanchine
Performers: Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin and Lucia Micallef, Piano
21 January, 12:00, Our Lady of Porto Salvo Church, Senglea
Bach Cello Suites (5, 2 & 4)
Performer: Isang Enders
21 January, 19:30, St Marija Church, Għaxaq
Charlie’s Baroque Angels
Performer: Charlie Siem, violin
22 January, 19:30, St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Bach – St Matthew Passion BVW 244
Performers: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and John Butt, Director
23 January, 12:00, Aula Capitulare, Mdina Cathedral
Toccami L’Anima – Music by Frescobaldi, Bach, Couperin and Royer
Performer: Marco Mencoboni
23 January, 19:30, St Catherine Church, Żejtun
Niccolò Jommelli, Dixit Dominus ; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Mass in D major
Performers: Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri and Giulio Prandi
24 January, 12:00, Grand Salon at the Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Bach and Beyond – Music by Bach, Reich, Maslanka and Zarvos
Performer: Signum Saxophone Quartet
24 January, 19:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Handel’s ‘Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno‘ HWV 46
Performers: Armonia Atenea, Orchestra, George Petrou, Director, Myrisiní Margariti, Soprano, Nian Wang, Mezzo Soprano, Yuriy Mynenko, Counter Tenor, and Christos Kechris, Tenor
25 January, 12:00, Grand Salon at the Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. BWV 846 – 869
Performer: Paul Gulda, Harpsichord
25 January, 19:30, Parish Church of the Assumption, Qrendi
Missa in Illo Tempore SV205 by Claudio Monteverdi
Performers: Cantar Lontano and Marco Mencoboni
26 January, 12:00, Grand Salon at the Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Path of Love – Masa’ar Hubb
Performers: Paul Gulda, Harpsichord and Marwan Abado, Oud and Vocals
26 January, 19:30, Teatru Manoel, Valletta
The Six Brandenburg Concertos
Performers: Les Passions de l’Âme and Meret Lüthi