JOSEP PLANELLS: Contrafactum I: de Cabanilles
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Popoli di Tessaglia! Io non Chiedo, eterni Dei K. 316
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Vorrei Spiegarvi, Oh Dio! K. 418
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K. 538
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 41, in C major, K. 551 ‘Jupiter’
Soprano: Leonor Bonilla
Conductor: Teresa Ribeiro Böhm
Program notes
Mozart is the tutelary angel of the symphony, his violin and bronze sprite watches over the door of the theater. It is an act of justice to dedicate an evening to the man who, as Cernuda said, “is music itself”. We will pay tribute to his operatic writing, in the voice of Leonor Bonilla, and to his orchestral writing with the symphony “Jupiter”.
A contemporary work, Contrafactum I: de Cabanilles by Josep Planells, preludes the programme. In it Planells proposes an exercise in reconstructing the music of José Cabanilles, the pinnacle of the Spanish organ tradition of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Opera lovers in Seville have been longing for a reunion with Leonor Bonilla since her debut in ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’ in 2018, and her prodigious interpretation of Giuletta in Bellini's Montagues and Capulets in 2021. While awaiting her next heroine role, we symphony fans have heard her on several occasions with the ROSS. The intensity of the Mozartian arias from La clemencia de Tito and Mitrídate will no doubt make up for the Sevillian public who have found in her - let's say in the year of Manuel García's centenary - the successor to Paoline Viardot and María Malibrán.
Together with harp and bassoon,
Manuel García solfea.
Today, Leonor, in the stalls
sits Pauline Viardot,
and the tarot cards
reveal in the chapel
a mystery of Seville:
- ‘Where is the Malibran?’
- "The angels will know
if Leonor Bonilla sings".
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José María Jurado García-Posada