Valer Barna-Săbăduș is still a rare name on concert bills in Romania. Last year he played in Timisoara, this year he returned to the same city, and next year he will play in Bucharest. Each time, his presence in Romanian concerts is due to the conductor Gabriel Bebeșelea. The countertenor Valer Barna-Săbăduș was born in Arad in 1986 and emigrated with his family to Germany in 1991. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich, and in 2020 he was awarded the Händel Festival Prize in Halle. A performer with a successful international career, Valer Barna-Săbăduș has a repertoire that includes operas and vocal-symphonic creations, but also tackles other genres, participating in unusual projects, such as those of rap artists.

On Radio România Muzical, we have the opportunity to hear him in a concert in which he will perform arias from operas by Georg Friedrich Händel and Antonio Vivaldi. It will be the second in a series of two concerts in Frankfurt on November 14th and 15th respectively. As is often the case, our radio station will be the only one in the European Broadcasting Union network to broadcast this concert live.

The concert will be performed by the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra in the Concert Hall of the Frankfurt Broadcasting Corporation, conducted by Andrea Marcon. An artist known for his approach to early music, Andrea Marcon has chosen this time to put together a program of pre-classical works framed by two romantic symphonies.

We will open with Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 10 in B minor for string orchestra, followed by arias from Georg Friedrich Händel's operas Alcina, Ariodante and Rinaldo, arias from Antonio Vivaldi's operas Orlando furioso and Il Giustino, Vivaldi's Concertos RV 151 in G major "Alla rustica" and RV 157 in G minor for string orchestra, also by Vivaldi. An arc in time, so that at the end of the concert we will return to the music of Felix Mendelssohn and listen to the Fourth Symphony Op. 90 in A major "Italiana".

The red thread of the program: Italy - Vivaldi's homeland, where Händel was worshipped and Mendelssohn found his inspiration. A symbiosis that gave birth to the title "Il gusto italiano".

So, I invite you to watch an Italian-style concert live from Frankfurt on Friday, November 15th, from 9pmon the European Stage.