Italian Cantatas from the Settecento
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Notte ch’in carro d’ombre H480
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A for strings and continuo RV158
Che giova il sospirar RV679
INTERVAL
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Arianna abbandonata S98
Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692-1753)
Didone abbandonata

Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano; La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler director

Recorded by BBC Radio 3 and Classic Fm

Wigmore Hall, London

Songs by Vatroslav Lisinski

Croatian Music Society Concert Hall, Zagreb, Croatia

Vocal Master-Class of solo songs and arias

Norvegian University of Science and Technology – Music Department, Trondheim

The Poet’s Echo – recital of solo song

Renata Pokupić, mezzo-soprano and Joseph Breinl, piano

Recital of solo songs by R. Hahn, G. Mahler, J. Brahms, H. Wolf

Trondheim Chamber Music Festival

GRAND FINALE! The closing concert of Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 2017

Trio Isimsiz
Chilingirian Quartet
Nordic Brass Ensemble
Renata Pokupić, mezzo-soprano
Trine Knutsen, flutes
Chris Stout, fiddle
Catriona McKay, scottish harp
Øyvor Volle, violin
Marianne Thorsen, violin
Sally Beamish, viola
Vladimir Mendelssohn, viola
Michael Grolid, viola
François Kieffer, cello
Øystein Sonstad, cello
Katrine Øigaard, double bass
Joseph Breinl, piano
TICC quartets

Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Norway

Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

The last day of teaching in a vocal masterclass Music Ocean from 26 to 31 August, and a concert of participants.
Organised by Jeunesses Musicales Split

Split, Croatia

Teaching in Vocal Masterclass Music Ocean from 26 to 31 August
Organised by Jeunesses Musicales Split

Split, Croatia

Boris Faust Viola
Deborah York Sopran
Renata Pokupić Alt
Andrew Staples Tenor
Ashley Riches Bass
Thomas Ihlenfeldt Laute
Norddeutscher Figuralchor, Jörg Straube Einstudierung
Bremer Philharmoniker
Paul McCreesh Dirigent

Glocke, Großer Saal, Bremen, Germany

Boris Faust Viola
Deborah York Sopran
Renata Pokupić Alt
Andrew Staples Tenor
Ashley Riches Bass
Thomas Ihlenfeldt Laute
Norddeutscher Figuralchor, Jörg Straube Einstudierung
Bremer Philharmoniker
Paul McCreesh Dirigent

G. F. Handel: Orlando

David Bates, conductor | Janos Szikora, stage director | Croatian Baroque Enemble | CAST: Orlando Owen Willetts | Medoro Renata Pokupić | Angelica Ivana Lazar | Dorinda Marija Kuhar – Šoša | Zoroastro David Oštrek

Dubrovnik Festival

G. F. Handel: Orlando

David Bates, conductor | Janos Szikora, stage director | Croatian Baroque Enemble | CAST: Orlando Owen Willetts | Medoro Renata Pokupić | Angelica Ivana Lazar | Dorinda Marija Kuhar – Šoša | Zoroastro David Oštrek

Dubrovnik Festival

G. F. Handel: Orlando

David Bates, conductor | Janos Szikora, stage director | Croatian Baroque Enemble | CAST: Orlando Owen Willetts | Medoro Renata Pokupić | Angelica Ivana Lazar | Dorinda Marija Kuhar – Šoša | Zoroastro David Oštrek

Dubrovnik Festival

G. F. Handel: Messiah (staged)

Netia Jones / Director, design and video| Bjarte Eike / Music Director | Baroque Soloists and the vocal ensembles Edvard Grieg Choir and Cathedra | Malcolm Bruno / Music | Excerpts from King James Bible and The Common Book of Prayer, edited by Charles Jennens / Text | Michael McCarthy / Associate Music Director | KATERYNA KASPER | PIERRE DERHET | RENATA POKUPIC | CALLUM THORPE

Bergen National Theatre

G. F. Handel: Messiah (staged)

Netia Jones / Director, design and video| Bjarte Eike / Music Director | Baroque Soloists and the vocal ensembles Edvard Grieg Choir and Cathedra | Malcolm Bruno / Music | Excerpts from King James Bible and The Common Book of Prayer, edited by Charles Jennens / Text | Michael McCarthy / Associate Music Director | KATERYNA KASPER | PIERRE DERHET | RENATA POKUPIC | CALLUM THORPE

Bergen National Opera

G. F. Handel: Messiah (staged)

Netia Jones / Director, design and video| Bjarte Eike / Music Director | Baroque Soloists and the vocal ensembles Edvard Grieg Choir and Cathedra | Malcolm Bruno / Music | Excerpts from King James Bible and The Common Book of Prayer, edited by Charles Jennens / Text | Michael McCarthy / Associate Music Director | KATERYNA KASPER | PIERRE DERHET | RENATA POKUPIC | CALLUM THORPE

Bergen National Opera

G. F. Handel: Mesiah

Netia Jones / Director, design and video| Bjarte Eike / Music Director | Baroque Soloists and the vocal ensembles Edvard Grieg Choir and Cathedra | Malcolm Bruno / Music | Excerpts from King James Bible and The Common Book of Prayer, edited by Charles Jennens / Text | Michael McCarthy / Associate Music Director | KATERYNA KASPER | PIERRE DERHET | RENATA POKUPIC | CALLUM THORPE

Bergen National Opera

J. Haydn: Berenice, che fai? (Scena di Berenice)

Paul Mc Creesh Conductor | Taipei Symphony Orchestra

Taipei’s National Concert Hall

G. F. Handel: Agrippina

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Flamanska opera, Antverpen, Belgija

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Flamish Opera, Antwerp, Belgium

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp, Belgium

Conductor Stefano Montanari | Staging Mariame Clément | Set Julia Hansen | Costumes Julia Hansen | Lighting Bernd Purkrabek | Video fettFilm
CAST: Agrippina Ann Hallenberg | Nerone Renata Pokupić | Poppea N.N. | Claudio Bálint Szabó | Ottone Tim Mead | Narciso Jake Arditti | Pallante Toby Girling | Giunone Raehann Bryce-Davis | Lesbo Evgeny Solodovnikov | Orchestra Symfonisch Orkest Opera Vlaanderen

Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp, Belgium

FRANZ SCHUBERT
La Harpe enchantée, (Ouverture de Rosamunde)
Symphonie n° 8 « Inachevée »
Lieder avec orchestre
Erlkönig, Die Forelle, Du bist die Ruh, Im Abendrot, Die Junge Nonne, Nacht und Traüme, An Silvia, Ganymède, Ständchen, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, Romanze aus Rosamunde
(orchestrés par
 F. Schubert, F. Liszt,
 J. Brahms, M. Reger,
 R. Strauss, H. Berlioz,
 B. Britten, A. Webern,
 F. Krawczyk)
Accentus, Insula orchestra
Schmitt Maximilian,ténor
Pokupić Renata, mezzo-soprano
Laurence Equilbey, direction

Échirolles, La Rampe, France

FRANZ SCHUBERT
La Harpe enchantée, (Ouverture de Rosamunde)
Symphonie n° 8 « Inachevée »
Lieder avec orchestre
Erlkönig, Die Forelle, Du bist die Ruh, Im Abendrot, Die Junge Nonne, Nacht und Traüme, An Silvia, Ganymède, Ständchen, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, Romanze aus Rosamunde
(orchestrés par
 F. Schubert, F. Liszt,
 J. Brahms, M. Reger,
 R. Strauss, H. Berlioz,
 B. Britten, A. Webern,
 F. Krawczyk)
Accentus, Insula orchestra
Schmitt Maximilian,ténor
Pokupić Renata, mezzo-soprano
Laurence Equilbey, direction

Metz, Arsenal, France

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Abbaye de Lessay, Lessay, France

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Cathédrale Saint-Thédorit, Uzès, France

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Lacoste, Carrière de Lacoste, France

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Basilique Notre-Dame, Beaune, France

Dubrovnik Late Summer Festival

Renata will be returning to Dubrovnik on September the 8th for a concert with her dear colleagues and friends of renowned Dubrovnik Guitar Trio during Dubrovnik Late Summer Festival.
All details will be announced soon. 

Rector’s Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia
at 21 h

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Cathédrale de Saint-Omer, Saint-Omer, France

W. A. Mozart: (1756 – 1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, Krönungsmesse

Sandrine Piau, Maria Savastano, soprano
Renata Pokupic, alto
Martin Mitterutzner, Benjamin Bruns, ténor
Andreas Wolf, Konstantin Wolff, basse
Insula orchestra, Accentus
Laurence Equilbey, conductor

Philharmonie d’Essen, Essen, Germany

Recital: Songs by Antonín Dvořák and Václav Tomášek (1774–1850), whose songs have recently been recorded by Pokupić and Vignoles. Robert Schumann’s cycle Frauenliebe und Leben follows. Roger Vignoles is recognised as one of the world’s most distinguished piano accompanists. He regularly partners the finest singers in major venues around the world and is regarded as a leading authority on the song repertoire.

Bratislava, Slovak Republic