(Credit: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music official website)

The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2022 season, featuring three operas and a number of concerts. For the purpose of this article we will focus on the vocal works.

Here is a full slate.

Operas 

Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera “Silla” spotlights Bejun Mehta, Eleonora Bellocci, Valer Sabadus, Roberta Invernizzi, Hagen Matzeit, Samuel Mariño, and Mert Süngü. Alessandro De Marchi conducts a production by Georg Quander.

Performance Dates: Aug. 5 – 9, 2022

Carlo Pallavicino’s opera “L’amazzone corsara, ovvero L’Alvilda regina de’ Goti” showcases Shira Patchornik, Marie Theoleyre, Hannah De Priest, and Rémy Brès-Feuillet. Luca Quintavalle conducts a production by Alberto Allegrezza.

Performance Dates: Aug. 18 – 23, 2022

Giovanni Bononcini’s opera “Astarto” stars Francesca Ascioti, Giuseppina Bridelli, Ana Maria Labin, Paola Valentina Molinari, Theodora Raftis, and Luigi De Donato. Stefano Montanari conducts a production by Silvia Paoli.

Performance Dates: Aug. 25 – 27, 2022

Concerts

Soprano Rachel Redmond presents works by Domenico Scarlatti and Jean-Philippe Rameau alongside conductor Bernard Cuillier.

Performance Date: July 26, 2022

Sopranos Dorothea Mields and Barbara Zanichelli, and mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis perform works by Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi, and Luigi Rossi alongside harpist Margret Köll.

Performance Date: Aug. 6, 2022

Tenor Enea Sorini, soprano Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, mezzo-soprano Marisa Corvo, and bass Federico Sacchi sing music by Claudio Monteverdi alongside conductor Massimiliano Toni.

Performance Date: Aug. 11, 2022

Soprano Roberta Mameli presents music by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Friedrich Händel, and Reinhard Keiser alongside the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Performance Date: Aug. 12, 2022

Soprano Arianna Vendittelli, contralto Margherita Maria Sala, tenor Jeffrey Francis, and bass Luigi De Donato perform Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Il Messia.” Performance in Italian from a manuscript of the Händel-Haus Halle Foundation. Alessandro De Marchi conducts.

Performance Date: Aug. 14, 2022

Mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert sings music by Georg Friedrich Händel, Giuseppe Sammartini, Pietro Castrucci, and Francesco Barsanti alongside conductor Claudio Osele.

Performance Date: Aug. 16, 2022

La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble presents works by Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Alessandro Grandi. Andrea Marcon conducts.

Performance Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Soprano Flore Van Meerssche sings music by Barbara Strozzi and Georg Friedrich Händel.

Performance Date: Aug. 20, 2022

The festival ends with the grand final concert of the 13th Pietro Antonio Cesti International Baroque Singing Competition.

Performance Date: Aug. 28, 2022