Created by Marco Cera

Elisa Citterio, Music Director

Guillaume Bernardi, Stage Director

You're invited to this theatrical Roman soirée, complete with mischievous servant, famous prima donna, and a composer or two!

Meet Pier Leone Ghezzi—caricaturist, painter, and host of some of 18th-century Rome’s most popular salon parties. Tafelmusik is delighted to invite you to one of his famous soirées, where you will encounter the famous prima donna Faustina Bordoni, and discover whether Ghezzi’s mischievous Harlequin servant can thwart his master and pursue his own love interests!

Joining Elisa Citterio and a chamber ensemble drawn from Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is one of the world’s finest singers of Italian baroque music, soprano Roberta Invernizzi. Together, they take us through arias and sinfonias by Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Porpora and more while Ghezzi (in the form of Tafelmusik’s Marco Cera) sketches his guests live for all to see.

Join us for a free pre-concert chat titled "Music and Theatre in Rome in the Early 18 century" with stage Director Guillaume Bernardi, and gain insight into the production of this theatrical experience.

Program includes

• Gasparini Overture to L’oracolo del Fato ♫
• Vivaldi Sonata for violin & continuo in C Minor, RV 6 ♫
• Vivaldi Sonata for 2 violins in G Major, RV 71 ♫
• Porpora Aria “Son prigioniera d’amore” from Poro ♫
• Vinci Aria “Non ti minaccio sdegno” from Catone in Utica ♫
• Pergolesi Overture to Adriano in Siria ♫
• Vinci Overture to Partenope: complete ♫
• Bononcini Sonata prima for cello & continuo in A Minor
• Porpora Aria “Alto Giove” from Polifeno ♫
• Pergolesi Aria  “Lieto cosi’ talvolta” from Adriano in Siria ♫

♫ First performance by Tafelmusik