I Barocchisti
Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera
Diego Fasolis director
Past event
21 February 2026
Sala Teatro
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
La creazione del mondo, oratorio in three parts for three solo voices, choir and orchestra Hob. XXI:2 (Italian version edited by Giuseppe Carpani)
To mark the 30th anniversary of I Barocchisti and the 90th anniversary of the RSI Choir, the two ensembles conducted by Lugano-based maestro Diego Fasolis – a leading exponent of historically informed performance – bring one of Joseph Haydn's masterpieces to the stage of the LAC: the oratorio La creazione del mondo, in the Italian version by Giuseppe Carpani. This is an unmissable opportunity to hear one of the great pillars of Western music.
The Creation (Die Schöpfung) was originally conceived by Haydn to an English libretto, partly based on Milton's Paradise Lost. Shortly afterwards, Gottfried van Swieten produced a German translation, adapting it to the Viennese taste of the time. The text was translated into Italian in 1801 by Giuseppe Carpani and enjoyed considerable circulation in the 19th century. Performing La Creazione in Italian today is not an arbitrary decision, but a way of bringing the work closer to its conceptual origins, emphasising its international appeal and Haydn's ability to create a universal musical language from “translated” and adapted texts. In the context of the LAC, which aims to be a crossroads of cultures and languages, performing the work in Italian takes on a double meaning: it is not just a question of making the text more understandable to the audience, but of emphasising how the great works of musical history are the result of influences, transitions and adaptations – not untouchable monuments, but living organisms.
Violini I
Fiorenza De Donatis, violino di spalla
Giusy Adiletta
Chiara Fasani Stauffer
Ágnes Kertész
Claudio Mondini
Chiara Zanisi
Violini II
Alberto Stevanin
Daniela Beltraminelli Krebs
Lorenzo Gugole
Elisa Imbalzano
Marco Piantoni
Viole
Luca Moretti
Lorenzo Boninsegna
Diego Mecca
Lavinia Quatrini
Violoncelli
Francesco Galligioni
Emanuele Abete
Antonio Fantinuoli
Contrabbassi
Vanni Moretto
Margherita Naldini
Traversieri
Marco Brolli
Paola Bonora
Enrico Luca
Oboi
Emiliano Rodolfi
Miriam Jorde Hompanera
Clarinetti
Luca Lucchetta
Rocco Carbonara
Fagotti
Valentino Zucchiatti
Margit Franziska Baranyai
Controfagotto
Antoine Pecqueur
Corni
Mario Ortega Blancas
Gianni Calonaci
Trombe
Thibaud Robinne
Daniel Guerreiro
Tromboni
Floriano Rosini
Elina Veronese
Fabio Costa
Timpani
Karl Fischer
Fortepiano
Giulio Mercati
Soprani
Hilary Aeschliman
Laura Antonaz
Rossana Bertini
Emma Bez
Lorenza Donadini
Caterina Iora
Liga Liedskalnina
Elisa Prosperi
Cecilia Rizzetto
Barbara Zanichelli
Contralti
Grazia Bilotta
Elena Biscuola
Elisa Bonazzi
Elena Carzaniga
Mya Fracassini
Marta Fumagalli
Isabella Hess
Oda Hochscheid
Ilaria Molinari
Maria Ernesta Scabini
Tenori
Paolo Borgonovo
Matteo Laconi
Giuseppe Maletto
Leo Moreno
Carlo Prampolini
Luigi Tinto
Alessio Tosi
Alessandro Turri
Bassi
Matteo Bellotto
Lorenz Miehlich
Tiago Mota
Alessandro Nuccio
Marco Radaelli
Marco Scavazza
Walter Testolin
Salvo Vitale
