Julia Lezhneva & Kammerorchester Basel
Orchester
Wednesday, 02. September 2026
7:30 p.m., Church Saanen
Back in 2018, the Saanen Church glowed during the performance of this celebrated artist – then as now alongside the Kammerorchester Basel. Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva returns for an evening of Baroque splendour, where Handel’s brilliant Concerti grossi enter into a sparkling dialogue with rarely heard Italian opera arias – those famed “travel arias” that the primadonnas and tenors of the time kept ready in their luggage (hence the German term “Kofferarien”) to showcase their vocal virtuosity wherever they went.
Julia Lezhneva, Soprano
Kammerorchester Basel
| Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) | |
| Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3 No. 2, HWV 313 (1734) | 12' |
| Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729) | |
| “Mi sento intorno al cor”, aria for Berenice from the opera “Lucio Vero” (London 1727) | 7' |
| Nicola Porpora (1686–1768) | |
| “Timida pastorella”, aria for Adelaide from the opera “Adelaide” (Rome 1723) | 8' |
| Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) | |
| Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op. 3 No. 5, HWV 316 | 10' |
| Pietro Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) | |
| “Son qual nave esposta ai venti”, aria for Solinda from the opera “L’inganno tradito dall’amore” (Vienna 1735) | 7' |
| Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783) | |
| “Se fra turbini”, air aria for Attalo from the opera “Attalo, re di Bitinia” (Naples 1728) | 5' |
| Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) | |
| Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 3 No. 4, HWV 315 | 12' |
| Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783) | |
| “Se grato esser mi vuoi”, aria for Fulvia from the opera “Ezio” (Naples 1730) | 5' |
| Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740) | |
| “Vaghe luci voi sapeste”, aria for Scipione from the opera “Scipione in Cartagine Nuova” (Piacenza 1730) | 6' |
| Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) | |
| Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6 No. 12, HWV 330 (1739) | 12' |
| Giovanni Porta (1675–1755) | |
| “Mi parla nel seno”, aria for Merione from the opera “Farnace” (Bologna 1731) | 8' |
| Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740) | |
| “Bel cader qualor pugnando”, aria for Quinto Fabio from the opera “Lucio Papirio dittatore” (Parma 1729) | 7' |
| 90' | |