Commissioned productions for period instruments, new interpretations of traditional repertoires, innovative working methods, dramaturgically sophisticated concepts that attract a diverse audience \u2013 Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) offers all of this and has been one of the musical greats in the cultural life of the Nordic countries for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The “Dancing Queen” program presented at the festival in Herrenchiemsee musically illustrates the life of the Swedish queen Christine (1626 \u2013 1689) as a\u00a0monarch, but above all as a music lover and generous patron.\u00a0The dramaturgical range spans from a coronation motet and\u00a0French ballet music\u00a0\u00a0to the musical framing of courtly celebrations,\u00a0a sinfonia by\u00a0Antonio Cesti to her Catholic baptism to works by\u00a0Scarlatti and Corelli, both of which were sponsored by the monarch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\u00a0August 2019,\u00a0FiBO presents “From Russia with Love” at the Br\u00fchl Castle Concerts. The program traces the intense musical relationship between Russia and Western Europe in the 18th century. Czarina Catherine the Great did her utmost to promote the arts in the still-new Saint Petersburg Residence and invited numerous Italian composers to the court, among them some of the greatest composers of her time,\u00a0Giovanni Pasiello, Domenico Cimarosa and Baldasare Galuppi. On the occasion of a European trip, the czarina on Christmas day in\u00a01781 attended the premiere of Haydn\u2019s String Quartet op. 33 at the Vienna Court\u00a0\u2013 a work that is indispensable in this context, even at a summer festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21st July 2019 Herrenchiemsee Festspiele<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Dancing Queen”\u00a0works by\u00a0\u00a0A. Scarlatti, A. Corelli, G. D\u00fcben, J. H. Schmelzer, C. Gesualdo, V. Albrici, A. Cesti and others, Kajsa Dahlb\u00e4ck, soprano \/ Olga Heikkil\u00e4, soprano \/ Katariina Heikkil\u00e4, alto \/\u00a0Jukka Jokitalo, tenor \/ Juha-Pekka Mitjonen, bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n