The famous American countertenor, well known to music lovers at the festival, Lawrence Zazzo, offers us a beautiful program around the great operas of Handel, Porpora, two composers who wrote operas for the famous castrates Senesino and Farinelli to whom the Royal Academy of Music in London owed its major successes in the years 1721-27. Next to famous pages from well-known operas by Handel such as “Vivi tiranno” by Rodelinda, “Va tacito” by Giulio Cesare, “Rompo i lacci” by Flavio, “Tanti affani” by Ottone or “Chiudetevi miei lumi” by Admeto. Lawrence Zazzo will also perform exciting tunes by Vivaldi and Purcell, including Purcell’s famous “Cold Genius Song”, extracts from King Arthur opera.