Il Caro Sassone
The final concert of the spring series of Baroque Evenings will present listeners with an exceptional phenomenon combining 18th-century opera and church music. This will be achieved through the work of Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783), who combined the German musical tradition with a masterful command of the Italian opera style.
Tuesday
6/23/2026
7:00 PM
The Church of St. Simon and St. Jude
Praha
700 - 950 CZK
Description
ABOUT
The final concert of the spring series of Baroque Evenings will present listeners with an exceptional phenomenon combining 18th-century opera and church music. This will be achieved through the work of Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783), who combined the German musical tradition with a masterful command of the Italian opera style. His wife, Faustina Bordoni, the most important soprano of her time, undoubtedly played a significant role in this. The extraordinary popularity of Italian opera arias led to their frequent rewriting with Latin texts so that they could also be used in the liturgy. A remarkable number of these so-called contrafacts have been preserved in the music collection of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague since the 1730s.
The Collegium Marianum ensemble, together with soprano Pavla Radostová, will perform selected contrafacts in a modern premiere. The Prague audience will thus have a unique opportunity to hear music that was performed more than three hundred years ago in St. Vitus Cathedral in Hradčany. The concert program will be complemented by Hasse’s opera and oratorio arias in Italian and a flute concerto in B minor.
The world premiere of Hasse’s contrafacts of opera arias will be performed in a modern production prepared by Dr. Milada Jonášová (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with Prof. Wolfgang Hochstein (Hamburg). The edition, based on sources from the music collection of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, will be published this year in the Academus Edition series (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Musicians
Pavla RADOSTOVÁ | soprano
COLLEGIUM MARIANUM
Jana SEMERÁDOVÁ | artistic director
Lenka TORGERSEN | concert master
Magdalena MALÁ | Baroque violin
Andreas TORGERSEN | Baroque viola
Hana FLEKOVÁ | Baroque cello
Jan KREJČA | theorbo
Ján PRIEVOZNÍK | double bass
Filip HRUBÝ | ¨harpsichord
La Concordia delle Nazioni
or music united nations
The program of the 26th edition of Baroque Soirées will present an inspiring dramaturgy presenting the intertwining of national styles in the context of important musical centers and composers such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, François Couperin, Francesco Geminiani, and Johann Adolf Hasse, who influenced entire generations of composers and musicians.
