Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista

Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista

Concert as part of the Festival Radovljica

One of the most beautiful oratorios of the seventeenth century recounts the story of the beheading of St John the Baptist. Salome impressed King Herod with her dancing, and her mother Herodiade persuaded her to ask for the head of John the Baptist whom she resented for forbidding marriage between blood relatives. Stradella’s oratorio was written for performance in the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome on Palm Sunday in 1675. Its author was assassinated in Genoa seven years later.

Kathrin Hottiger, soprano (Salome)
Bénédicte Tauran, soprano (Herodiade)
Aco Aleksander Bišćević, tenor (San Giovanni Battista)
Raffaele Giordani, tenor (Consigliere)
Lisandro Abadie, bass (Erode)
FESTIVAL BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Domen Marinčič, direction