Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Suite and Rinaldo's aria: Cara Sposa by Haendel
Matteo El Khodr, countertenor.

Cara Sposa - Rinaldo (Handel)

Amor Hai Vinto (RV 683) A. Vivaldi

The bis/ENCORE aria "Son qual nave agitata" from Riccardo Broschi's Artaserse!

Son Qual Nave Agitata (Riccardo Broschi)

Gelido in ogni vena - Farnace (A.Vivaldi)

Elizabeth Frandsen with Quentin Crida and Camerata Tinta Barocca.

Veni, veni me sequere fida - Juditha Triumphans - Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi. - Concert a-moll - Allegro

Lars Ulrik Mortensen Musical Director, Fredrik From Konzertmeister.
Recorded live on 24/11 2013 in Garnisons Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Recorded by DR P2 Music (National Danish Radio Broadcast).

Antonio Vivaldi: "Alla Rustica", concerto for strings and B.c. RV 531

Lamento de Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703).
Enregistré en concert à l'Eglise Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains (Metz) le 26 février 2012.
A l'orgue : Vincent BERNHARDT.

Lamento - JC.Bach

Chopstick & Johnjon Live @ Watergate 25.09.2009

Orlando  Furioso - Antonio Vivaldi, RV728 
Libretto: Ludovico Ariosto

*Sol da te*
Ruggiero's aria

Sol da te mio dolce amore 
questo core 
avrà pace avrà conforto

Le tue vaghe luci belle
son le stelle 
onde Amor mi guida in porto.

Performance: 12.06.2004, Friedenskirche Sanssouci

From the broadcast of Classical Radio rbb on Feb 17, 2013. 
No infringement of copyright is intended.

"Sol da te" - Antonio Vivaldi - Philippe Jaroussky

Last movement of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

Amen (Stabat Mater - Pergolesi)

Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie, numéro RV 644 dans le catalogue de Vivaldi, est un oratorio d'Antonio Vivaldi, le seul à nous être parvenu des quatre qui ont été composés par le musicien vénitien. Le livret, œuvre de Iacopo Cassetti, se fonde sur le récit biblique de Judith. 
L'œuvre a été composée et représentée à Venise en 1716 à l'Ospedale della Pietà.
Le travail avait été commandé pour célébrer la victoire de la République de Venise sur les Turcs et la reconquête de l'île de Corfou. En juillet 1716, les Turcs y avaient débarqué et avaient assiégé l'île. La population résista à l'occupation, et en août, Venise signa une alliance avec le Saint-Empire romain germanique. Le 18 août, sous le commandement du comte Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, la bataille décisive fut gagnée, forçant les Turcs à quitter l'île.
Juditha triumphans fut mise en scène à la Pietà en novembre et connut un grand succès. L'histoire de Judith et sa victoire contre l'envahisseur Holopherne était une allégorie de Venise vaincue et envahie par les Turcs. Le général vainqueur, von der Schulenburg, était présent à la représentation.

1716 Antonio Vivaldi - Juditha Triumphans - Arma, caedes, vindictae, furores

Matteo EL KHODR
countertenor

Since he was a little boy, Matteo has always been attracted by things that weren't interesting for other boys of his age: theatre, drama, old black and white movies, old books of his grandparent's library, old discs of old Egyptian singers and divas, and classical music and opera.  Seeing this attraction to arts, his parents always backed him up. He was taught to play piano during years, and started imitating voices he was hearing: Carmen from Bizet, Violetta from La Traviata (Verdi), Leonora from La Forza del destino (Verdi), Il Barbier di Siviglia (Rossini), slept listening to Magnificat (Bach) and woke up on the Requiem (Mozart) and the Gloria (Vivaldi).
When he turned 17, he was singing with this same child voice, this same thin voice who was becoming more and more deep, round, mature. He didn't know it but he became a countertenor, a rare male voice, a heritage from the castrati voices from the 17th century in Italy!
Due to luck, coincidences, and fate, Matteo found himself at age 18 signing a huge contract with Universal Music France and moved there to learn music, to become an opera singer, to travel and sing on the biggest stages of Europe.
He released his first album "Matteo Haute-Contre", a "Thank You" album to all the inspirations who led him to fulfill his destiny: Bach, Bellini, Vivaldi, Purcell, Verdi...
After a big tour in Europe, singing for the Communauté Européene de Bruxelles, to the Queen of Belgium, to Vienna, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Paris, London, Verona...and Lebanon (Festival de Beiteddine), and several masterclasses with Andreas Scholl, Robert Expert, Fabrice di Falco, Matteo entered the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique in the class of Agnes Mellon, soprano of Les Arts Florissants (William Christie) and wife of Dominique Visse, famous french countertenor, in the department of the vocal perfection: baroque era and composers. 
In September 2011, Matteo integrated the Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris (Solo Alto-countertenor) and is scheduled to perform in Salle Pleyel all year long: Gloria (Poulenc), Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel), Peer Gynt (Grieg) and solo masterpieces of oratorios: Semele (Haendel), Juditha Triumphans (Vivaldi) under the direction of the composers: Daniel Baremboim, Paavo Jarvi, James Colon, Ricardo Chailly.
In Christmas, he did the final concerts in two sacred festivals, the Festival of Saint-Chapelle in Paris and the Beirut Chants Festival of Sacred music.

In 2012 invited to sing in Munich's Gasteig Carl-Orff hall, and won the public price in the famous Concours International de Chant Baroque de Froville, then is Mandane in the production of Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci, with Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli under the direction of M.Diego Fasolis and Concerto Koln in l'Opera National de Lorraine (Nancy, France).
In 2014/2015 Matteo and les Folies Francoises with the collaboration of La Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel are recreating the first opera of Mozart: Apollo Und Hyacinthus.


Amor Hai Vinto (RV 683) A. Vivaldi

Matteo Countertenor

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