07.09.2021

OLIVIA VERMEULEN at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and in Moscow

The versatile mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen starts the new season with two works by George Frideric Handel: for the first time at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, she can be heard there on 7 September in Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus, firstly performed in 1747. A top-class ensemble of singers, together with the orchestra B'Rock lead by Bart Naessens, proves that this oratorio is still one of the most important masterpieces that music history has produced in the genre.

September 7

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63

Benjamin Hulett, Judas
Pavel Kudinov, Simon
Lucy Crowe, Eine Israelitin
Olivia Vermeulen, Ein Israelit
Pieter De Praetere, Eupolemus
Kerlijne Van Nevel, Erster Bote
Tiemo Wang, Zweiter Bote

Bart Naessens, conductor
B’Rock Orchestra
BachPlus Choir
 

September 15 

George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Giulio Cesare
Amanda Forsythe, Cleopatra
Olivia Vermeulen, Sesto
Katia Ledoux, Cornelia
Cameron Shahbazi, Tolomeo
Margarita Kalinina, Nireno
Daniil Chesnokov, Curio
Morgan Elliot Pearse, Achilla

Christopher Moulds, conductor
Moscow Chamber Orchestra