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HÄNDEL’S HEROINES

CHELSEA ZURFLÜH, SOPRANO
SEBASTIAN WIENAND, HARPSICHORD
MAURICE STEGER, RECORDER & CONDUCTOR
LA CETRA BAROCKORCHESTER BASEL

Date:
Friday, 7. August 2026
Time:
7:00 pm
Duration:
120 min with interval

A queen, a sorceress and a general’s daughter – Cleopatra, Armida and Almirena are heroines from George Frideric Handel’s operas. They show anger in the aria “Furie terribile”, despair in “Se pietà di me non senti” and tearful grief in “Lascia ch’io pianga”, one of the most famous and moving opera arias ever written. The young Swiss soprano Chelsea Zurflüh, winner of the first prize of the Concours de Genève and winner of the SWR Junge Opernstars 2025 competition, delves into the souls of these extraordinary women and transforms their emotions into music with her expressive voice and enormous range. The La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel under Maurice Steger will accompany her and will itself set strong musical accents with Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4” and recorder concertos, in which Steger can be heard as a virtuoso soloist.

 

Written advance ticket reservations will be accepted from December 5. Online ticket sales at klosters-music.ch and through the tourist offices in Klosters and Davos will open on March 1, 2026.

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 4 in G-Dur
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello
(um 1690–1758)
Chaconne in A-Dur für zwei Violinen und b.c.
Georg Friedrich Händel
(1685–1959)
Aria «Se pietà di me non senti» aus der Oper «Giulio Cesare»
Concerto in g-Moll, HWV 396, für Blockflöte, Streicher und b.c.
Carl Heinrich Graun
(1704–1759)
Aria «No, no di Libia fra l'arene» aus der Oper «Silla»
– Pause –
Georg Friedrich Händel
«Die Ankunft der Königin von Saba» aus dem Oratorium «Salomon», HWV 67
Concerto in g-Moll, HWV 396, für Blockflöte, Streicher und b.c.
Aria «Furrie terribile» der Armida aus der Oper «Rinaldo»
Chaconne in G-Dur, HWV 434 für Cembalo solo und Streicher
Ouvertüre zur Oper «Rinaldo», HWV 7a
Aria «Lascia ch’io pianga» aus der Oper «Rinaldo»
Aria «Da tempeste il legno infranto» aus der Oper «Giulio Cesare»