At long last, Sophie Rennert is travelling to Berne for a much-delayed concert with the Freitagsakademie under Katharina Suske; she then stops in Styria, where she grew up, to sing in Handel’s “Dixit Dominus” and Vivaldi’s “Magnificat“, Jordi Savall conducting, at the Styriarte festival. Still in July, the Nationaltheater Mannheim welcomes Mr. Rennert back for two performances in Rameau’s “Hyppolite und Aricie” (conductor: Bernhard Forck)
The month of August sees the Early Music Festival Innsbruck come back after its Covid-19-related hiatus, and Ms. Rennert is—of course!—coming along. For his programme “Bruderzwist und weiser König” (“fraternal strife and a sage king”), artistic director Alessandro de Marchi has selected ”Caino e Abele”, a high-baroque oratorio by Bernardo Pasquini, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s ”Judicium Salomonis” which reminds us of the oratorio’s beginnings with Charpentier’s teacher Giacomo Carissimi and the Roman School.
Sophie Rennert’s summers would seem incomplete without her appearance at the Schubertiade, which is also back after the 2020 cancellation; she joins her fellow artists at an ensemble lied recital and is accompanied by pianist Joseph Middleton for a solo recital of works by Schubert and Mahler.
Sophie Rennert: mezzosoprano
Die Freitagsakademie: Vieni, Vieni
July 3rd
Styriarte | Parish church Stainz: Marienvesper
Georg Friedrich Händel: Dixit Dominus in g minor, HWV 232
Johann Joseph Fux: Nisi Dominus in a minor, K 108
Antonio Vivaldi: Magnificat in g minor, RV 610
July 10th, 11th
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Jean Philippe Rameau: “Hyppolite et Aricie”
Sophie Rennert: Phèdre
July 24th, 25th, 26th
Early Music Festival Innsbruck (Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik)
Bruderzwist und weiser König
Bernardo Pasquini: “Caino et Abel”. Oratorio (1671)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: “Judicium Salomonis”. Histoire sacrée (1702)
August 18th
Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
ensemble lied recital
August 24th
Solo recital with Joseph Middleton
August 26th