The Stuttgart Baroque Festival, organized by Musik Podium Stuttgart on a biennial basis, will take place this year from 25 to 28 April 2024. Interested parties can immerse themselves in the world of baroque music at several venues in Stuttgart city center.
The 2024 festival program at a glance:
DO, April 25, 2024
8 pm, Leonhardskirche
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Missa Romana| Psalms Dixit Dominus| Laudate pueri
Hannah Morrison, soprano | Benno Schachtner, alto
Chamber Choir Stuttgart | Baroque Orchestra Stuttgart
Conductor: Frieder Bernius
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FR, April 26, 2024
8 pm, Leonhardskirche
Il generoso Cor
Arias and instrumental works by Alessandro Scarlatti and composers from his musical circle
Il gusto barocco | Conductor: Jörg Halubek
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SA, April 27, 2024
4 pm, Leonhardskirche
A Napoli
Trio sonatas for violins and basso continuo by Isabella Leonarda, Nicola Matteis, Nicola Porpora, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Antonio Vivaldi
Le Consort (France)
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7 pm, Altes Schloss, Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Reinhold Würth Saal
"Nicola Porpora and the training of castrati in Naples"
Lecture by Prof. Bernhard Richter (Freiburg)
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20:30, Leonhardskirche
Passion & Polyphony
Responsories and madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo
The Gesualdo Six (Great Britain) | Conductor: Owain Park
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SO, April 28, 2024
11 a.m., Old Palace, State Museum Stuttgart, Reinhold Würth Hall
"All about the 'bringer of death' Vesuvius"
Musical reading with Rudolf Guckelsberger
Students of the Trossingen University of Music under the direction of Prof. Anton Steck
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4 p.m., New Palace, White Hall
Abbandonata!
Concertos, cantatas and symphonies by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Francesco Durante, Ignaz Holzbauer, Niccolò Jommelli and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Les Muffatti (Belgium)
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Tickets for all festival events are now available online via reservix or from our office at Büchsenstraße 22, tel. 0711 239 139 0, e-mail: karten@musikpodium.de