On December 15 and 16, 2018 David Stern offers Shanghai music lovers the 4th annual baroque festival at the Shanghai Symphony Hall, with a performance of Bach’s B-minor Mass with Opera Fuoco and the Tölzer Knabenchor. The work has not been heard in Shanghai since 1918.
Lorenzo da Ponte finally takes his long overdue place as the center of attention in the world of opera. Opera Fuoco presents a musical tour from Venice to New York through the odyssey of da Ponte’s life.
Mozart’s ultimate masterpiece, La Clemenza di Tito, transcends the opera seria genre to offer a complex and richly orchestrated score. David Stern musically shapes each character with equal importance and finesse. The acclaimed 2025 Opera Fuoco’s production comes back for two dates in two distinguished French venues.
Contrary to the claims of the reference edition, Hercules is not an oratorio. Handel always wanted it to be considered a musical drama, and thus an opera in English. In order to reinforce the dramatic tension and to give Hercules its operatic colors, David Stern proposes an interpretation based on the original manuscript and the reworkings that Handel made in 1749 and 1752.
William Boyce, a contemporary of Handel, wrote his Seranata when Handel spent 9 months in Dublin. Based on the Song of Song of Solomon, the libretto is a delightful collection of erotic poetry from the bible, scored for two shepherds, a tenor and a soprano, chorus and orchestra.
