Fury and Heartbreak
What happens when love turns to rage—or when devotion meets betrayal? This concert plunges into the fiery world of Italian Baroque music, where emotions run high, strings race furiously, and abandoned lovers make their voices heard. (In other words, 18th-century composers loved a little drama.)
What’s Interesting About This Concert
- Maya Kherani, praised for her “intelligence, vulnerability, and a rich, soaring soprano” (Opera News), returns to Philharmonia to bring two heroines’ breakups to vivid life in music by Handel and Marcello.
- Conductor Václav Luks explores two sides of Italian Baroque music—Venice’s refined elegance and Naples’s theatrical flair.
- Hear the music as it was meant to be heard—on period instruments, recreating the sound world of the 18th century.
- A grand finale: Vivaldi’s In furore iustissimae irae (“In the Fury of Most Righteous Wrath”) is a blazing showpiece of furious strings and breathtaking vocal fireworks.
