Cecilia Bartoli is very happy to accept the personal invitation of Valery Gergiev to give her debut at the Mariinsky Concert Hall and be the special guest in a benefice gala-concert with the aim of supporting the important ongoing restoration process at the Mariinsky Theatre Library
The programme includes:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture from the opera Le nozze di Figaro
Concert overture for soprano and orchestra Chi sà, chi sà qual sia, K. 582
Sesto’s aria from the opera La clemenza di Tito
Symphony No 23 in D Major, K. 181
The motet for soprano and orchestra Exsultate jubilate, K. 165
Gaetano Donizetti
Andante sostenuto from the Clarinet Concertino in B Flat Major
Gioachino Rossini
Semiramide’s cavatina from the opera Semiramide
Felix Mendelssohn
Scherzo in G Minor from Octet, Op. 20
(orchestral version by the composer)
Gioachino Rossini
Willow Song and Desdemona’s Prayer from the opera Otello
The Storm from Scene&bnsp;2 of Act II of the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia
Angelina’s scene and rondo from the opera La Cenerentola