Franco Fagioli & Academia Montis Regalis : Salle Gaveau

About the Event

The great virtuoso Franco Fagioli joins the Academia Montis Regalis for an evening of music devoted to the incomparable music of Neapolitan composer Porpora and his most famous student, the castrato Farinelli.

Farinelli embodies the very idea of the famous castratos adored by the crowds. His skill, however, owed everything to the great Porpore, widely admired both as a composer and as a teacher.

Arias excerpts of the operas Polifemo, Ifigenia in Aulide, Orfeo, Arianna e Teseo…