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Lascia la spina

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Michael Hell’s special ensemble Ārt House 17 im Planetensaal in Schloss Eggenberg Ārt House 17 and wonderful singers around Tetiana Miyus Tetiana Miyus in search of the truth in the most beautiful music Handel ever wrote.

Programme

What to expect

Georg Friedrich Handel: excerpts from "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" (The Triumph of Time and Truth)

Duration: round two hours with a break

Artists

Tetiana Miyus, Soprano (Bellezza/Beauty)
Anna Manske, Soprano (Piacere/Pleasure)
Iris Vermillion, Alto (Disinganno/Deceit)
Markus Schäfer, Tenor (Tempo/Time)

Ārt House 17

Direction: Michael Hell, harpsichord

Intro

20 minutes before each performance in the foyer, we will tell you about the story of the evening.

Tickets

Prices: EUR 52 | 28

Subscription (four performances of free choice)
Reductions: U27 / Ö1 Intro / Club Ö1

Content

leave the thorns, pluck the rose

“Lascia la spina“ – leave the thorns, pluck the rose. In Handel’s most beautiful aria, this is how Pleasure cajoles a young woman who denies Truth. She does not recognise herself when she looks in the mirror. Time and Truth are up in arms about this. They want to convince the fickle “Bellezza” of her transience and lead her back on to the path of virtue. With excerpts from Handel’s first oratorio, four wonderful singers led by Michael Hell recall Rome 1707, when, with his genius for melody, the young Handel made captivating, topical musical theatre of an ancient theme: Time brings Truth to light.

Cast

Tetiana Miyus

Tetiana Miyus
Soprano

The agile, flawlessly radiant soprano and the infectious enthusiasm of the Ukrainian have delighted Graz opera audiences since 2011 in major roles from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. She has also repeatedly earned acclaim at the Styriarte in productions under Michael Hofstetter, Andrés Orozco Estrada and Andreas Stoehr.

Anna Manske

Portrait Anna Manske
© Christoph M. Bieber
Mezzo-soprano

Born in Vienna, the mezzo-soprano is at home on both opera stages and concert platforms and has also been celebrated by our audiences since the Styriarte 2018. Her studies at the Mozarteum and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna were followed by numerous international appearances, for example at the Opéra national de Montpellier, the Vienna Musikverein and the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Iris Vermillion

Iris Vermillion im Konzert
© Nikola Milatovic
Mezzo soprano

Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten" at the Teatro Real in Madrid, "Elektra" at the Vienna State Opera or "Le Grand Macabre" at the Dresden Semperoper: the mezzo-soprano from Bielefeld with her extremely wide-ranging repertoire is in great demand at the most important international opera houses and concert halls.

Markus Schäfer

Markus Schäfer blickt direkt in die Kamera
© Werner Kmetitsch
Tenor

The versatile tenor conquered the stages of the world with performances of Mozart and Bach’s Evangelist roles and celebrated successes as a Lied interpreter at lots of “Schubertiaden”. Under Nikolaus Harnoncourt he participated in a recording of the “St. Matthew Passion”, which was awarded a Grammy.

Ārt House 17

Ārt House 17 im Planetensaal in Schloss Eggenberg
© Nikola Milatovic
Ensemble

Diving deep into historical music and its history(ies): That is the mission of the young Graz-based ensemble Ārt House 17, for which Michael Hell and Georg Kroneis have brought together some of the best specialists in their field. Their repertoire ranges from Pergolesi to Mozart and Offenbach. The ensemble is currently establishing itself internationally and is celebrating huge successes at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, for example.

Michael Hell

Michael Hell am Cembalo
© Matthias Wagner
Direction, Harpsichord, Recorder

Michael Hell, born in North Rhine-Westphalia, is a virtuoso on both the recorder and the harpsichord whose reputation extends far beyond his adopted home of Graz. He is also a leading expert in basso continuo and historical performance practice, who knows how to convey the rules and history of his art with infectious enthusiasm.

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