Photo: Mattias Modig
Helgi Reynisson
Sofia Staxäng. Photo: Lars Wiklund
Göran Staxäng. Photo: Lars Wiklund
Caroline Gentele. Photo: Tina Axelsson
Opera is dead! Long live Opera!
External organiser: Cantemus Produktion AB
Is it opera’s funeral procession opening the show… or a celebration of opera’s birth?
Opera is thought to have begun with Monteverdi’s Orfeo, which premiered 24 February 1607. That is where we begin… but on 2 June 2024. Journey through the 500-year history of opera and hear how this musical drama depicts, reveals and reflects on human behaviour in every form.
Hear the hits of opera and be captivated by the sounds of composers such as Monteverdi, Rameau, Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Wagner, Verdi, Offenbach and Bizet. Laugh, cry and shiver with delight – this performance has space for big emotions! Would you like to experience how it feels to sing opera? Take the chance to join in: there will be opportunities to sing along in fun and surprising ways!
With this concert, the Cantemus choir celebrates its fiftieth season. We also hear Caroline Gentele, a soprano who has performed for the king and queen on visits to the city, and appeared on popular TV shows, at the Nobel Banquet, in concert halls and on opera stages – both as a soloist, and with the ensemble DivineOpera. Their motto is: “opera for everyone, everywhere”.
Baritone Helgi Reynisson recently performed at the Royal Swedish Opera and is now on the way to international opera stages.
Conductors Sofia and Göran Staxäng lead Cantemus and an orchestra headed up by concertmaster Karin Eriksson.
This is a performance for opera lovers and for listeners who don’t yet know that they love opera.
Long live opera!
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The music
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Claudio Monteverdi Ahi, caso acerbo from L’Orfeo
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Claudio Monteverdi Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di Poppea
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Jean-Philippe Rameau Forêts paisibles from Les Indes galantes
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck Ah quale incognito from Orfeo ed Euridice
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Georg Friedrich Händel Da tempeste ur Giulio Cesare in Egitto
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Papagena! Weibchen! Täubchen! - Papageno’s Suicide Scene from The Magic Flute
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Pa-pa-pa-pa-pagena - Duet from The Magic Flute
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Hai già vinta la causa!...Vedrò mentre io sospiro from The Marriage of Figaro
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Questo giorno di tormenti - Finale chorus from The Marriage of Figaro
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Wagner Treulich geführt – Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
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Gioachino Rossini Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville
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Giuseppe Verdi Per me giunto from Don Carlos
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Giuseppe Verdi Noi siamo zingarelle - Di Madride noi siam mattadori - choruses from La traviata
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Jacques Offenbach Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour from Tales of Hoffmann
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Giacomo Puccini Quando me’n vo’ "Musetta’s Waltz" from La bohème
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Georges Bizet The Cigarette Workers’ Chorus from Carmen
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Georges Bizet Habanera from Carmen
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Georges Bizet The Toreador Song from Carmen
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Participants
- Cantemus
- Caroline Gentele soprano, presenter, script & stage direction
- Helgi Reynisson baritone & presenter
- Sofia Staxäng conductor
- Göran Staxäng conductor
- Ängby Chamber Orchestra
- Karin Eriksson leader