Abos: Opera highlights
Sat 07 Dec
|Inquisitor's Palace
Join 'Les Bougies Baroques' – conducted by Ian Peter Bugeja & led by Piotr Jordan – and singers Nicola Said, Clare Ghigo & Cenk Karaferya on an 18th-century journey shedding light on one of the most prolific Maltese composers of yesteryear: Girolamo Abos (1715-1760).


Time & Location
07 Dec 2019, 19:30 – 20:35 CET
Inquisitor's Palace, Triq Il-Palazz Ta' L-Isqof, Il-Birgu BRG 1023, Malta
About the event
Join period instrument ensemble 'Les Bougies Baroques' (conducted by Maltese conductor-harpsichordist Ian Peter Bugeja & led by Piotr Jordan) and singers Nicola Said, Clare Ghigo & Cenk Karaferya on an 18th-century journey at the historic Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu, Malta – featuring no less than eight works that will be performed in Malta for the first time since their inception in the 18th century – shedding light on one of the most prolific Maltese composers of yesteryear: Girolamo Abos.
Born to a French father & Maltese mother in Valletta in 1715 – and sent to Naples from a very young age to study music – Abos would go on to garner various ‘opera seria’ commissions in a string of major Italian cities and have his music sung by some of Europe’s finest singers, never to return to his island of birth.
PERFORMERS:
Period Instrument Ensemble | 'Les Bougies Baroques' Conductor/Harpsichord |…