UPCOMING CONCERTS at Varazdin Baroque Evenings, croatia
programme 1
Funded by Culture Ireland
Programmes for Varaždin Festival 2025
8 pm Wednesday, 24th September 2025
St. Nichola’s Church, Varaždin, Croatia
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Francesca Lombardi Mazulli, soprano
Camerata Kilkenny
Bojan Čičić - violin
Marja Gaynor - violin
Sarah McMahon - cello
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Georg Friederich Händel (1685-1759)
‘Dietro l’orme fugaci’ (Armida Abbandonata) HWV 105
Cantata for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Sonata in D major for *violin and basso continuo
*violin - Marja Gaynor
G.F. Händel
‘Agrippina condotta a morire’ HWV 110
Cantata for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
Programmes for Varaždin Festival 2025
8 pm Wednesday, 24th September 2025
St. Nichola’s Church, Varaždin, Croatia
MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Francesca Lombardi Mazulli, soprano
Camerata Kilkenny
Bojan Čičić - violin
Marja Gaynor - violin
Sarah McMahon - cello
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Georg Friederich Händel (1685-1759)
‘Dietro l’orme fugaci’ (Armida Abbandonata) HWV 105
Cantata for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Sonata in D major for *violin and basso continuo
*violin - Marja Gaynor
G.F. Händel
‘Agrippina condotta a morire’ HWV 110
Cantata for soprano, two violins and basso continuo
programme 2
Funded by Culture Ireland
8pm Thursday 25th September 2025
Batthyány Castle, Ludbreg, Croatia
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Camerata Kilkenny
Bojan Čičić - violin
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Thomas Baltzar (c.1630–1663)
Prelude and Division on a Ground ‘John Come Kiss Me Now’ (solo violin)
(Playford: The Division-Violin, London 1684)
William Byrd (1543–1623)
‘John Come Kiss Me Now’ (solo harpsichord)
(Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, 1609–1619)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665–1729)
Prelude in D minor
for solo harpsichord (1687)
Jacquet de la Guerre
Sonata No. 1 in D minor
(Sonates pour le Violon et pour le Clavecin, 1707)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Sonata No. 4 in C minor
for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1017 (6 Sonaten fur Violine und Cembalo c.1717)
Siciliano. Largo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
8pm Thursday 25th September 2025
Batthyány Castle, Ludbreg, Croatia
MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Camerata Kilkenny
Bojan Čičić - violin
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Thomas Baltzar (c.1630–1663)
Prelude and Division on a Ground ‘John Come Kiss Me Now’ (solo violin)
(Playford: The Division-Violin, London 1684)
William Byrd (1543–1623)
‘John Come Kiss Me Now’ (solo harpsichord)
(Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, 1609–1619)
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665–1729)
Prelude in D minor
for solo harpsichord (1687)
Jacquet de la Guerre
Sonata No. 1 in D minor
(Sonates pour le Violon et pour le Clavecin, 1707)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Sonata No. 4 in C minor
for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1017 (6 Sonaten fur Violine und Cembalo c.1717)
Siciliano. Largo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
artist info - camerata kilkenny AT VARAZDIN BAROQUE EVENINGS, CROATIA
CAMERATA KILKENNY
with Francesca Lombardi soprano
Varazdin Baroque Evenings
Camerata Kilkenny
Founded by the Irish harpsichordist and organist Malcolm Proud and the Swiss violinist Maya Homburger Camerata Kilkenny is a period instrument group specialising in the performance of Baroque music. Many of its programmes combine 17th and 18th century music with the works of contemporary composers. Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 1999 since when it has performed in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Croatia, Malta and at all of Ireland’s leading music festivals. CD recordings include H.I.F. Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with Maya Homburger (“Bestenliste” of the prestigious German music
industry ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ award in 2007, J.S. Bach’s ‘The Musical Offering (2010), Bach Arias and Swedish Folk Chorales (with Maria Keohane soprano (2018), and ‘The Piper and the Fairy Queen (with David Power Uilleann Pipes) (2018).
Bojan Čičiċ
Croatian-born violinist Bojan Čičić has established himself as one of the leading names on the early music scene, as both a soloist and music director. In addition to being the leader of the Academy of Ancient Music, he directs ensembles including Lyra Baroque Orchestra, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Dunedin Consort, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel.
As a soloist he appeared with Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the 18th-Century, Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo and Orquesta Barocca de Sevilla. In May 2025 he was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Lyra Baroque Orchestra in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bojan formed his own group, Illyria Consort, which explores and specialises in lesser known repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Their debut Delphian Records album of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonate da camera achieved great critical acclaim and won “Presto Recordings of the Year Award” in 2017. Their collaboration with Marian Consort titled Adriatic Voyage won the same award in 2021. The same year saw the release of Pyrotechnia featuring Italian virtuoso violin concertos by Vivaldi, Tartini and Locatelli (“a thrilling musical discovery”- Classical Music Daily). In 2022, Illyria Consort released the first ever complete recording of Johann Jacob Walther:
Scherzi da violino solo (“enviously spontaneous and carefree” - Gramophone), as well as an album of Christmas instrumental music titled La Notte (“One for every December!”- BBC Music Magazine). Their latest release of Heinrich Biber: Violin Sonatas 1681 was named the Recording of the Month in the Gramophone Magazine. His recording of JS Bach: Sonatas and Partitas was nominated for the Critic’s Choice 2023 in the Gramophone Magazine and Editor’s Choice in BBC Music Magazine. In 2016, Bojan was appointed Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music, and is passionate about training the next generation of instrumentalists in historically-informed performing styles.
Marja Gaynor - violin
Originally from Finland, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She is a member of Irish Baroque Orchestra and has also performed with Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Marsyas, Dunedin Consort, London Handel Players and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Marja is known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles, a fluent improviser, as well as arranger and curator. Upcoming projects include chamber music tours with Solas Quartet and The Vanbrugh and performing and arranging as a trio with uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music.
Sarah McMahon - cello
Irish cellist Sarah McMahon enjoys a varied career as principal cellist with the Academy of Ancient Music, Irish Baroque Orchestra, London Handel Players, Ensemble Marsyas and Camerata Kilkenny, collaborating closely with Peter Whelan, Malcolm Proud, Richard Egarr and
Laurence Cummings. She also regularly plays as guest principal cello with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Aurora Orchestra, Arcangelo, Florilegium, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. Sarah is passionate about chamber music and a founding member of the Callino String Quartet. Their recent recording for Coro of Haydn’s Seven Last Words (op.51) has met with critical acclaim, and their collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian of this work premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2019 and has toured to Montreal. Sarah is professor of historical cello at the Royal College of Music in London and Berwick
Academy at the University of Oregon. Sarah gratefully acknowledges support from Music Network and the Arts Council of Ireland
through their Capital Awards Scheme.
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Malcolm Proud won first prize at the Edinburgh International Harpsichord Competition in 1982 after a year of study with Gustav Leonhardt. He is harpsichordist and organist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny and performs with Chamber Choir Ireland, Resurgam and Sestina. His international career has included playing all six Brandenburg Concertos with Sir John
Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists at the BBC London Proms and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and he has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, European Union Baroque Orchestra and Akademie für alte Musik Berlin. He has toured Japan in a production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Mark Padmore in the lead rôle. In 2018 he curated a series of concerts at the National Concert Hall in Dublin marking the 350th anniversary of François Couperin’s birth, and in 2022 he performed Book 1 of Bach’s ‘Well- tempered Clavier’ at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. Malcolm Proud is Emeritus Organist at St Canice’s Cathedral Kilkenny and has given recitals on historic organs such as the 15th century instrument at Valère- Sion in Switzerland, the 1565 Antegnati in Mantua, the 1610 Compenius at Frederiksborg in Denmark and the 1766 Riepp at Ottobeuren near Munich. He has given organ recitals in Boston and Virginia. Over 40 CD recordings include Purcell’s Harpsichord music, Bach’s Six Partitas, the Goldberg Variations and (on organ) Clavierübung III. He has recorded Brandenburg 5 with both the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the English Baroque Soloists.
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli - Soprano
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli graduated from the Conservatory G. Verdi of Milan and earned her second academic degree with distinction at the Conservatory G. Frescobaldi of Ferrara under the guidance of Mirella Freni. After that she continued her studies in interpretation and vocal technique with Luciano Pavarotti and A. Molinari for lyrical, and with Sonia Prina for baroque repertoire. Amongst her many awards are the first finalist’s prize of the Handel Singing Competition London 2010, the second prize of the International Baroque Singing Competition "Francesco Provenzale" of the Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini in Naples, and the first
critic’s prize of the Festival Baroque Evenings of Varazdin in Croatia (2014).
Her career in concert and opera led her debuting with many orchestras and ensembles dedicated to historically informed performance practice, such as Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone (Circuito Lirico Lombardo; Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi; Ravenna Festival; Le Feste di Apollo in Parma; Creator Musica Sacra in Florence; Festival di Beaune; the Bremen Musik Festival...), l’Ensemble barocco Limoges conducted by Christophe Coin, la Venexiana conducted by Claudio Cavina (Festival Krakow, Festival Freiburg, Styriarte Festival Graz, Festival Gdansk, Festival de Radio France Montpellier...), l’ensemble B'Rock (MAfestival in Bruges,
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the Palladium theatre Rome), Complesso barocco conducted by Alan
Curtis, Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset, l’Arte del Mondo conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, la Cappella Neapolitana conducted by Toni Florio, Le Musiche Nove conducted by Claudio Osele, I Virtuosi delle Muse conducted by Stefano Molardi, Montis Regalis conducted by Alessandro De Marchi, Europa Galante conducted by Fabio Biondi (with whom she recently
debuted at the Wiener Konzerthaus performing Handel's Lucio Silla for the Festival Resonanzen). She also participated at, amongst many others, the Styriarte Festival in Graz, the Festival Schwaebish Gmuend, Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Hamburg, at the Handel Festival in Halle, the Vienna Resonanzen Festival, the festival MITO, the Macerata Opera Festival, the festival In Scena Padua, at the Rome Baroque Festival, and the Festival for Sacred Music in Santa Cristina di Bologna. Francesca’s interest in Baroque theatre has led to her rediscovering several rarely performed operas including La Rosinda (in Potsdam, Bayreuth and Vantaa, conducted by Mike Fentross), Artemisia by Francesco Cavalli (at Hanover and Montpellier, conducted by Claudio Cavina) – both recorded and published by Ludi Musici and Glossa. She also performed alongside Vivica Genaux, the role of Zelemina in Cavalli’s Veremonda at the US
festival Spoleto Charleston (USA) in 2015. Francesca’s recent successes include her debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (as Amore in
L’incoronazione di Poppea, with Alan Curtis as conductor and Pier Luigi Pizzi as stage director), at the Innsbruck Festival for Olde Music (Juno in La Callisto by Cavalli), and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples during the theater's anniversary celebration in autumn 2016, where she debuted in Achille in Sciro by Domenico Sarro, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi. From 2012 to 2017
she sang succesfully under the musical direction of Michael Hofstetter the roles of Leonora in Verdi’s Oberto (recorded and publishes by OehmsClassics), Agrippina in Handel's opera, Mirandolina in the same titled opera by Martinu, Formosa in Der Misslungene Brautwechsel oderRichardus I by Telemann, Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni by W.A.Mozart.
She took part in the Opera Project Buthan, coordinated by Stefano Vizioli and Aaron Carpene in 2013, which led to the first staging of an opera in this Himalayan kingdom, and a renewal in El Paso (USA) in 2014. Also in 2013 she debuted at the Vienna Musikverein in J.A. Hasse’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, again with Vivica Genaux, under the musical direction of Claudio Osele (recorded and published by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) and in Haendel’s Messiah, conducted by Uwe Grodd, in the Town Hall of Auckland in New Zealand.In the same Messiah she debuted last winter under the guide of F.Biondi at the Auditorium in Madrid and Pamplona and at the Actus Humanus Festival in Gdansk. A fruitful collaboration binds her with Mehmet Yesilcay and the Pera Ensemble, with whom she recently performed in prestigious concert halls all over Europe together with Valer Sabadus in the ambitious concert project Trialog – Music for the One God (also performed in the Cologne Philharmonic), which has also been recorded and published by CD label Berlin Classic, followed in 2015 by her solo CD 'Momenti d'amore' with baroque arias of the seicento.
Among her recent debuts are her performance in the role of Oberto in the Opera Alcina by Handel at the Teatro Real Madrid, conducted by Christopher Moulds, and at the Seoul National Opera in the opera Orlando finto pazzo by Antonio Vivaldi in the role of Ersilla with a renewal in 2017 under the baton of Maestro George Petrou. Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli frequently collaborates with the label Fra Bernardo, for which she recorded a solo cd 'Et in arcadia ego' with ensemble Stella Matutina, and 2014 Fernando Bertoni's Orfeo in the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, singing the role of Eurydice alongside Vivica Genaux, which has been published in 2016. In january 2017, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli sang the contessa in Antonio Salieri's La Scuola Dei Gelosi, a production recorded and soon to be released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and was the leading soprano in a concert project with La Cappella Autarena led to the cd release 'Lenzi e Mozart: Sacred Music in Lombardy' by Pan Classics. For Glossa she just recorded Silla By Haendel conducted by F.Biondi and Europa Galante,with S.Prina, V.Genaux, R.Invernizzi, Sunhae Im and she also recorded a Monteverdiano’s project called ‘Clorinda and Tancredi’. In the last season Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli debuted, amongst many others, in the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Andrea Marcon, and in the role of Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Theatre Bonn, conducted by Maestro Wolfgang Katschner. Future engagements will see her as Contessa in Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under the musical direction of Michael Hofstetter at Theatre Giessen, and she will be Rosane in ‘La Verità in Cimento’ by A.Vivaldi in Heidelberg and in Schwetzingen she will be Falsirena in ‘La Festa di Venezia’ by A.Salieri under the musical direction of W.Ehrardt.
She will sing Amore in Clori, Dorino e Amore by Scarlatti with the Stuttgart Kammerorchester under the direction of Fabio Biondi. And she will debut in many important festivals in Istanbul, Dortmund, Munich, Carinthia, Casalareina and more.
with Francesca Lombardi soprano
Varazdin Baroque Evenings
Camerata Kilkenny
Founded by the Irish harpsichordist and organist Malcolm Proud and the Swiss violinist Maya Homburger Camerata Kilkenny is a period instrument group specialising in the performance of Baroque music. Many of its programmes combine 17th and 18th century music with the works of contemporary composers. Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 1999 since when it has performed in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Croatia, Malta and at all of Ireland’s leading music festivals. CD recordings include H.I.F. Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with Maya Homburger (“Bestenliste” of the prestigious German music
industry ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ award in 2007, J.S. Bach’s ‘The Musical Offering (2010), Bach Arias and Swedish Folk Chorales (with Maria Keohane soprano (2018), and ‘The Piper and the Fairy Queen (with David Power Uilleann Pipes) (2018).
Bojan Čičiċ
Croatian-born violinist Bojan Čičić has established himself as one of the leading names on the early music scene, as both a soloist and music director. In addition to being the leader of the Academy of Ancient Music, he directs ensembles including Lyra Baroque Orchestra, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Dunedin Consort, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Phion Orkest van Gelderland & Overijssel.
As a soloist he appeared with Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the 18th-Century, Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo and Orquesta Barocca de Sevilla. In May 2025 he was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Lyra Baroque Orchestra in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bojan formed his own group, Illyria Consort, which explores and specialises in lesser known repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Their debut Delphian Records album of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli: Sonate da camera achieved great critical acclaim and won “Presto Recordings of the Year Award” in 2017. Their collaboration with Marian Consort titled Adriatic Voyage won the same award in 2021. The same year saw the release of Pyrotechnia featuring Italian virtuoso violin concertos by Vivaldi, Tartini and Locatelli (“a thrilling musical discovery”- Classical Music Daily). In 2022, Illyria Consort released the first ever complete recording of Johann Jacob Walther:
Scherzi da violino solo (“enviously spontaneous and carefree” - Gramophone), as well as an album of Christmas instrumental music titled La Notte (“One for every December!”- BBC Music Magazine). Their latest release of Heinrich Biber: Violin Sonatas 1681 was named the Recording of the Month in the Gramophone Magazine. His recording of JS Bach: Sonatas and Partitas was nominated for the Critic’s Choice 2023 in the Gramophone Magazine and Editor’s Choice in BBC Music Magazine. In 2016, Bojan was appointed Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music, and is passionate about training the next generation of instrumentalists in historically-informed performing styles.
Marja Gaynor - violin
Originally from Finland, Marja Gaynor is a Cork-based violinist and viola player. She is a member of Irish Baroque Orchestra and has also performed with Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Marsyas, Dunedin Consort, London Handel Players and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Marja is known as a versatile musician at home in many different styles, a fluent improviser, as well as arranger and curator. Upcoming projects include chamber music tours with Solas Quartet and The Vanbrugh and performing and arranging as a trio with uilleann piper David Power and flamenco guitarist John Walsh. She teaches violin and chamber music in MTU Cork School of Music.
Sarah McMahon - cello
Irish cellist Sarah McMahon enjoys a varied career as principal cellist with the Academy of Ancient Music, Irish Baroque Orchestra, London Handel Players, Ensemble Marsyas and Camerata Kilkenny, collaborating closely with Peter Whelan, Malcolm Proud, Richard Egarr and
Laurence Cummings. She also regularly plays as guest principal cello with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Aurora Orchestra, Arcangelo, Florilegium, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. Sarah is passionate about chamber music and a founding member of the Callino String Quartet. Their recent recording for Coro of Haydn’s Seven Last Words (op.51) has met with critical acclaim, and their collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian of this work premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2019 and has toured to Montreal. Sarah is professor of historical cello at the Royal College of Music in London and Berwick
Academy at the University of Oregon. Sarah gratefully acknowledges support from Music Network and the Arts Council of Ireland
through their Capital Awards Scheme.
Malcolm Proud - harpsichord
Malcolm Proud won first prize at the Edinburgh International Harpsichord Competition in 1982 after a year of study with Gustav Leonhardt. He is harpsichordist and organist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny and performs with Chamber Choir Ireland, Resurgam and Sestina. His international career has included playing all six Brandenburg Concertos with Sir John
Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists at the BBC London Proms and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and he has worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music, European Union Baroque Orchestra and Akademie für alte Musik Berlin. He has toured Japan in a production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Mark Padmore in the lead rôle. In 2018 he curated a series of concerts at the National Concert Hall in Dublin marking the 350th anniversary of François Couperin’s birth, and in 2022 he performed Book 1 of Bach’s ‘Well- tempered Clavier’ at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. Malcolm Proud is Emeritus Organist at St Canice’s Cathedral Kilkenny and has given recitals on historic organs such as the 15th century instrument at Valère- Sion in Switzerland, the 1565 Antegnati in Mantua, the 1610 Compenius at Frederiksborg in Denmark and the 1766 Riepp at Ottobeuren near Munich. He has given organ recitals in Boston and Virginia. Over 40 CD recordings include Purcell’s Harpsichord music, Bach’s Six Partitas, the Goldberg Variations and (on organ) Clavierübung III. He has recorded Brandenburg 5 with both the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the English Baroque Soloists.
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli - Soprano
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli graduated from the Conservatory G. Verdi of Milan and earned her second academic degree with distinction at the Conservatory G. Frescobaldi of Ferrara under the guidance of Mirella Freni. After that she continued her studies in interpretation and vocal technique with Luciano Pavarotti and A. Molinari for lyrical, and with Sonia Prina for baroque repertoire. Amongst her many awards are the first finalist’s prize of the Handel Singing Competition London 2010, the second prize of the International Baroque Singing Competition "Francesco Provenzale" of the Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini in Naples, and the first
critic’s prize of the Festival Baroque Evenings of Varazdin in Croatia (2014).
Her career in concert and opera led her debuting with many orchestras and ensembles dedicated to historically informed performance practice, such as Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone (Circuito Lirico Lombardo; Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi; Ravenna Festival; Le Feste di Apollo in Parma; Creator Musica Sacra in Florence; Festival di Beaune; the Bremen Musik Festival...), l’Ensemble barocco Limoges conducted by Christophe Coin, la Venexiana conducted by Claudio Cavina (Festival Krakow, Festival Freiburg, Styriarte Festival Graz, Festival Gdansk, Festival de Radio France Montpellier...), l’ensemble B'Rock (MAfestival in Bruges,
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the Palladium theatre Rome), Complesso barocco conducted by Alan
Curtis, Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset, l’Arte del Mondo conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, la Cappella Neapolitana conducted by Toni Florio, Le Musiche Nove conducted by Claudio Osele, I Virtuosi delle Muse conducted by Stefano Molardi, Montis Regalis conducted by Alessandro De Marchi, Europa Galante conducted by Fabio Biondi (with whom she recently
debuted at the Wiener Konzerthaus performing Handel's Lucio Silla for the Festival Resonanzen). She also participated at, amongst many others, the Styriarte Festival in Graz, the Festival Schwaebish Gmuend, Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Hamburg, at the Handel Festival in Halle, the Vienna Resonanzen Festival, the festival MITO, the Macerata Opera Festival, the festival In Scena Padua, at the Rome Baroque Festival, and the Festival for Sacred Music in Santa Cristina di Bologna. Francesca’s interest in Baroque theatre has led to her rediscovering several rarely performed operas including La Rosinda (in Potsdam, Bayreuth and Vantaa, conducted by Mike Fentross), Artemisia by Francesco Cavalli (at Hanover and Montpellier, conducted by Claudio Cavina) – both recorded and published by Ludi Musici and Glossa. She also performed alongside Vivica Genaux, the role of Zelemina in Cavalli’s Veremonda at the US
festival Spoleto Charleston (USA) in 2015. Francesca’s recent successes include her debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (as Amore in
L’incoronazione di Poppea, with Alan Curtis as conductor and Pier Luigi Pizzi as stage director), at the Innsbruck Festival for Olde Music (Juno in La Callisto by Cavalli), and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples during the theater's anniversary celebration in autumn 2016, where she debuted in Achille in Sciro by Domenico Sarro, conducted by Alessandro De Marchi. From 2012 to 2017
she sang succesfully under the musical direction of Michael Hofstetter the roles of Leonora in Verdi’s Oberto (recorded and publishes by OehmsClassics), Agrippina in Handel's opera, Mirandolina in the same titled opera by Martinu, Formosa in Der Misslungene Brautwechsel oderRichardus I by Telemann, Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni by W.A.Mozart.
She took part in the Opera Project Buthan, coordinated by Stefano Vizioli and Aaron Carpene in 2013, which led to the first staging of an opera in this Himalayan kingdom, and a renewal in El Paso (USA) in 2014. Also in 2013 she debuted at the Vienna Musikverein in J.A. Hasse’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, again with Vivica Genaux, under the musical direction of Claudio Osele (recorded and published by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) and in Haendel’s Messiah, conducted by Uwe Grodd, in the Town Hall of Auckland in New Zealand.In the same Messiah she debuted last winter under the guide of F.Biondi at the Auditorium in Madrid and Pamplona and at the Actus Humanus Festival in Gdansk. A fruitful collaboration binds her with Mehmet Yesilcay and the Pera Ensemble, with whom she recently performed in prestigious concert halls all over Europe together with Valer Sabadus in the ambitious concert project Trialog – Music for the One God (also performed in the Cologne Philharmonic), which has also been recorded and published by CD label Berlin Classic, followed in 2015 by her solo CD 'Momenti d'amore' with baroque arias of the seicento.
Among her recent debuts are her performance in the role of Oberto in the Opera Alcina by Handel at the Teatro Real Madrid, conducted by Christopher Moulds, and at the Seoul National Opera in the opera Orlando finto pazzo by Antonio Vivaldi in the role of Ersilla with a renewal in 2017 under the baton of Maestro George Petrou. Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli frequently collaborates with the label Fra Bernardo, for which she recorded a solo cd 'Et in arcadia ego' with ensemble Stella Matutina, and 2014 Fernando Bertoni's Orfeo in the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, singing the role of Eurydice alongside Vivica Genaux, which has been published in 2016. In january 2017, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli sang the contessa in Antonio Salieri's La Scuola Dei Gelosi, a production recorded and soon to be released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and was the leading soprano in a concert project with La Cappella Autarena led to the cd release 'Lenzi e Mozart: Sacred Music in Lombardy' by Pan Classics. For Glossa she just recorded Silla By Haendel conducted by F.Biondi and Europa Galante,with S.Prina, V.Genaux, R.Invernizzi, Sunhae Im and she also recorded a Monteverdiano’s project called ‘Clorinda and Tancredi’. In the last season Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli debuted, amongst many others, in the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach under the musical direction of Andrea Marcon, and in the role of Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Theatre Bonn, conducted by Maestro Wolfgang Katschner. Future engagements will see her as Contessa in Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under the musical direction of Michael Hofstetter at Theatre Giessen, and she will be Rosane in ‘La Verità in Cimento’ by A.Vivaldi in Heidelberg and in Schwetzingen she will be Falsirena in ‘La Festa di Venezia’ by A.Salieri under the musical direction of W.Ehrardt.
She will sing Amore in Clori, Dorino e Amore by Scarlatti with the Stuttgart Kammerorchester under the direction of Fabio Biondi. And she will debut in many important festivals in Istanbul, Dortmund, Munich, Carinthia, Casalareina and more.
latest cd release
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Camerata Kilkenny with Swedish soprano Maria Keohane
Bach arias and Swedish Folk Chorales (Dala Chorales)
Released on the Maya Recordings label in September 2019
This beautiful recording was made in the Propstei St. Gerold, Austria in September 2018.
Bach arias and Swedish Folk Chorales (Dala Chorales)
Released on the Maya Recordings label in September 2019
This beautiful recording was made in the Propstei St. Gerold, Austria in September 2018.
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