Belly Furia: Rarely Performed Arias – Shira Patchornik

A journey through time to castles, chambers and amorous settings around 1800. The irresistible soprano Shira Patchornik is a rising star on opera and concert stages. Many people are still familiar with Mozart’s “Figaro”. ‘Al Desio di chi t’adora’. It is a song full of erotic tension addressed to her lover. And perhaps some are still familiar with Haydn’s ‘La vera Constanza’. The rest of this stimulating programme consists of discoveries and treasures from Italian opera of the same period, but largely forgotten. But what is it about? No opera can do without them: the maid, the lover, the chambermaid, the jealous wife, the daughter. Operas around 1800 are mostly intricate tales of intrigue and love. Sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, these stories inspired composers to the highest form of their art. Bella Ragazze, they become witnesses to amorous adventures, they are the projection screen for powerful men, or they themselves become energetic and vengeful protagonists. Shira Patchornik is a shooting star on the big stages and brings us key moments from opera treasures with a stupendous stage presence. She embodies characters in her own unique way and does justice to even the most breakneck coloratura. As if made for it, Mozart’s rarely heard Divertimento joins the entertaining opera action: written as music for entertaining festive gatherings, it displays Mozart’s characteristic humour in almost every moment.