The Bach Society Brasil starts its 2023 season by inviting two of the greatest sopranos of our time specialized in baroque music to the stage of Theatro São Pedro in Porto Alegre: Maria Cristina Kiehr (Switzerland) and Marília Vargas (São Paulo). The Ensemble Bach Brasil, conducted by Fernando Cordella, opens the night with the vibrant Concerto in A minor for Violin and orchestra BWV 1041, with violinist Giovani dos Santos.

The concert continues to explore the potential of the soprano voice in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach with a selection of sacred arias (solo and in duet), taken from the Passions and the Mass in B Minor.  In dialogue with In this repertoire, the mysterious and esoteric Troisième Leçon De Ténèbres à deux Voix, by François Couperin, will be presented, a work in which the voices are treated by the composer as true instruments, weaving melismas inspired by the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

The thirtieth concert of the Bach Brasil series has the support of the Goethe Institut.