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-# Grupo Corpo at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, April 26, 2025+# The English Concert at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, April 27, 2025
  
-[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/events/2024-25/illuminations-fractured-history/grupo-corpo-21-and-gira/) presents [Grupo Corpo](http://www.grupocorpo.com.br/en)  +[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/events/2024-25/illuminations-fractured-history/the-english-concert-handels-giulio-cesare-in-egitto-harry-bicket-conductor/) Friends Appreciation Concert featuring [The English Concert](https://englishconcert.co.uk/)  
 [Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](https://calperformances.org/visit/venues/zh.php)   [Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](https://calperformances.org/visit/venues/zh.php)  
 [U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)   [U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
-8:00 PM, Saturday, April 26, 2025+3:00 PM, Sunday, April 27, 2025
  
-[[2025-04-25|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2025|Up to the 2025 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2025#April_events|Up to the 2025 event list!]] ☸ [[2025-04-27|On to the next event!]]+[[2025-04-26|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2025|Up to the 2025 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2025#April_events|Up to the 2025 event list!]] ☸ [[:2025:2025-05:2025-05-03|On to the next event!]]
  
-## Set One: 21+## Tentative Program
  
-Doh! No timing info tonight! Each set was 40-50 min long+George Frideric Handel (1685–1759): _Giulio Cesare in Egitto_, HWV 17 (1724, an opera seria in three acts; libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym (1678–1729)
  
-_21_ (1992)   +## Act One
-Music by Marco Antônio Guimarães & Uakti;   +
-Set Design by Fernando Velloso;   +
-Lighting by Paulo Pederneiras.+
  
-## Set Two: Gira+[3:08 PM] {lights down, announcements, performers out}
  
-_Gira_ (2017)   +Ouverture   
-(Bay Area Premiere)   +CORO: _Viva, viva il nostro Alcide!_   
-Music by Metá Metá;   +CESARE: _Presti omai l'Egizia terra_   
-Set Design by Paulo Pederneiras;   +CESARE: _Empio, dirò, tu sei, togliti_   
-Lighting by Paulo Pederneiras and Gabriel Pederneiras.+CORNELIA: _Priva son d'ogni conforto, e pur speme_   
 +SESTO: _Svegliatevi nel core, furie d'un alma offesa_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Non disperar; chi sà? se al regno_   
 +TOLOMEO: _L'empio, sleale, indegno vorria_   
 +CESARE: _Alma del gran Pompeo_   
 +CESARE: _Non è si vago e bello il fior nel prato_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Tutto può donna vezzosa, s'amorosa_   
 +CORNELIA: _Nel tuo seno, amico sasso_   
 +SESTO: _Cara speme, questo core tu cominci a lusingar_   
 +CESARE: _Va tacito e nascosto, quand' avido_   
 +ACHILLA: _Tu sei il cor di questo core_   
 +SESTO: _Son nato a sospirar, e il dolce_ / CORNELIA: _Son nata a lagrimar, e il dolce_   
 +[4:30 PM] {set ends}
  
-## Performers+## Act Two
  
-[Grupo Corpo](http://www.grupocorpo.com.br/en)+[4:52 PM] {lights down, performers out}
  
-### Dancers+Sinfonia   
 +CLEOPATRA: _V'adoro, pupille, saette d'Amore_   
 +CESARE: _Se in fiorito ameno prato_   
 +CORNELIA: _Deh, piangete, oh mesti lumi_   
 +ACHILLA: _Se a me non sei crudele, ogn'or_   
 +TOLOMEO: _Sì spietata, il tuo rigore sveglia_   
 +CORNELIA: _Cessa omai di sospirare! non è sempre_   
 +SESTO: _L'angue offeso mai riposa_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Venere bella, per un istante, deh_   
 +CESARE: _Al lampo dell'armi quest'alma guerriera_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Che sento? oh Dio!_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Se pietà di me non senti, giusto ciel_   
 +TOLOMEO: _Belle dee di questo core_   
 +SESTO: _L'aura che spira tiranno e fiero_   
 +[5:49 PM] {set ends}
  
-* Ágatha Faro; +## Act Three
-* Bianca Victal; +
-* Carlos Nunes; +
-* Davi Gabriel; +
-* Dayanne Amaral; +
-* Débora Roots; +
-* Edésio Nunes; +
-* Giulia Madureira; +
-* Hiago Castro; +
-* Isabella Accorsi; +
-* Jônatas Itaparica; +
-* Jonathan de Paula; +
-* Karen Rangel; +
-* Luan Barcelos; +
-* Lucas Saraiva; +
-* Malu Figueirôa; +
-* Pablo Garcia; +
-* Rafael Bittar; +
-* Rafaela Fernandes; +
-* Tris Martins; +
-* Vitória Lopes; +
-* Walleyson Malaquias.+
  
-### Production+[6:06 PM] {lights down, performers out}
  
-* Paulo Pederneiras: artistic director; +ACHILLA: _Dal fulgor di questa spada_   
-* Rodrigo Pederneiras: choreographer; +Sinfonia   
-* Freusa Zechmeister: costume design.+TOLOMEO: _Domerò la tua fierezza ch'il mio trono_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Piangerò la sorte mia, si crudele_   
 +CESARE: _Dall' ondoso periglio salvo mi_   
 +CESARE: _Aure, deh, per pietà spirate_   
 +CESARE: _Quel torrente che cade dal monte_   
 +SESTO: _La giustizia ha già sull'arco_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Voi, che mie fide ancelle_   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Da tempeste il legno infranto_   
 +CORNELIA: _Non ha più che temere quest' alma_   
 +Sinfonia   
 +CLEOPATRA: _Caro! più amabile beltà mai non_ / CESARE: _Bella! più amabile beltà mai non_   
 +CORO: _Ritorni omai nel nostro core la bella gioja ed il piacer_   
 +[7:02 PM] {set ends; applause and curtain calls} 
 +[7:05 PM] {show ends}
  
-## Notes 
  
-I was attracted to this show by the color-saturated promo photos of the dance corp, and by the promise of music by Uakti. Unfortunately, this turned out to be pre-recorded music, and only for the first half, but I'm glad we attended nonetheless. _21_ seemed to me to be quite joyous, full of energetic spins and jumps. _Gira_, on the other hand, was a bit spooky: the often abrasive soundtrack by Metá Metá was echoed visually by the herk and jerk motions of the dancers, expressing themselves in strange and unusual poses. Sometimes it's good to be unsettled by art!+## Performers
  
-[Program Notes](https://calperformances.org/program-notes/2024-25/grupo-corpo/) or {{:2025:2025-04:20250426pn.pdf|program notes}}+### Cast
  
-Aimée Ts'ao wrote a [promo article](https://www.sfcv.org/articles/preview/grupo-corpo-celebrates-50th-anniversary-west-coast-tour) about this tour for SFCV.+* Christophe Dumaux: countertenor vox as _Giulio Cesare_; 
 +* [Louise Alder](https://www.louisealder.co.uk/): soprano vox as _Cleopatra_, co-ruler of Egypt with her brother _Tolomeo_; 
 +* [Paula Murrihy](http://www.paulamurrihy.com/): mezzo-soprano vox en travesti as _Sesto_, stepson of _Cornelia_; 
 +* [Beth Taylor](https://www.bethmtaylor.com/): contralto vox as _Cornelia_, wife of _Pompeo_; 
 +* [John Holiday](https://www.johnholiday.com/): countertenor vox as _Tolomeo_ aka _Ptolemy_, brother of _Cleopatra_ and co-ruler of Egypt; 
 +* [Morgan Pearse](https://www.morganpearse.co.uk/): baritone vox as _Achilla_, an Egyptian general; 
 +* [Meili Li](https://www.instagram.com/meilimusica/): countertenor vox as _Nireno_, Cleopatra's and Tolomeo's servant; 
 +* [Thomas Chenhall](https://www.thomaschenhall.com/): baritone vox as _Curio_, a praetor and a general, serving as Caesar's assistant and confidant;
  
-## Photos+### Musicians
  
-Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!+[The English Concert](https://englishconcert.co.uk/) 
 + 
 +* Harry Bicket: artistic director, harpsichord; 
 + 
 +* Nadja Zwiener: leader, violin 1; 
 +* Annie Gard: violin 1; 
 +* Kinga Ujszåszi: violin 1; 
 +* Anna Curzon: violin 1; 
 +* Jeffrey Girton: violin 1; 
 +* Jimmy Drancsak: violin 1; 
 +* Tuomo Suni: violin 2; 
 +* Elizabeth MacCarthy: violin 2; 
 +* Jacek Kurzydlo: violin 2; 
 +* Davina Clarke: violin 2; 
 +* Mark Seow: violin 2; 
 +* Alfonso Leal del Ojo: viola; 
 +* Louise Hogan: viola; 
 +* Joanna Patrick: viola; 
 +* Joseph Crouch: violoncello; 
 +* Jonathan Byers: violoncello; 
 +* Samuel Ng: violoncello, viola da Gamba; 
 +* Alexander Jones: contrabass; 
 +* Katy Bircher: flute, recorder; 
 +* Clara Espinosa Encinas: oboe; 
 +* Jon Olaberria Lopez-Quintana: oboe; 
 +* Katrin Lazar: bassoon, recorder; 
 +* Ursula Paludan Monberg: horn; 
 +* Joseph Walters: horn; 
 +* Sergio Bucheli: theorbo; 
 +* Pablo FitzGerald Cerdån: theorbo; 
 +* Oliver Wass: harp; 
 +* Tom Foster: harpsichord. 
 + 
 +### Production Credits 
 + 
 +* Lily Arbisser Shorr: supertitles. 
 + 
 +## Notes
  
-{{gallery>:2025:2025-04?20250426-*.jpg}}+Today's show was one of those where I was both excited (yay! baroque opera!) and uncertain (four hours?!?). Turns out that I'm glad I made time for it: some of the singing was absolutely exquisite. And props to the audience: every now and then I was distracted by a cough or a beeping watch or other sort of noise, but for the most part, the hall was pin-drop quiet. Opera fans must know!
  
-{{:wip.png?nolink}}  **Whoa!**  This section is incomplete for now, sorry! {{:wip.png?nolink}}+[Program Notes](https://calperformances.org/program-notes/2024-25/the-english-concert-2425/) or {{:2025:2025-04:20250427pn.pdf|program notes}}
  
-{{tag>music Grupo_Corpo Zellerbach_Hall_Auditorium Paulo_Pederneiras Rodrigo_Pederneiras}}+Although it's darn hard to use it while sitting in the dark, I found it mildly irritating that the libretto was omitted from both the printed program and the pdf -- without such info we were all lost without a map throughout each set -- hence the lack of detailed time-stamps above.
  
-[[2025-04-25|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2025|Up to the 2025 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2025#April_events|Up to the 2025 event list!]] ☸ [[2025-04-27|On to the next event!]]+{{tag>music The_English_Concert Zellerbach_Hall_Auditorium Harry_Bicket Christophe_Dumaux Louise_Alder Paula_Murrihy Beth_Taylor John_Holiday Morgan_Pearse Meili_Li Thomas_Chenhall}}
  
 +[[2025-04-26|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2025|Up to the 2025 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2025#April_events|Up to the 2025 event list!]] ☸ [[:2025:2025-05:2025-05-03|On to the next event!]]

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