Videostream - Valer Sabadus at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025
Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025 – Relive the Highlights!
On 4, 6, 9, 12, and 14 September 2025, Valer Sabadus performed the role of Scipione Servilio in Francesco Cavalli’s opera "Pompeo Magno". This new production was directed by festival director Max Emanuel Cenčić, with the Cappella Mediterranea under the baton of Leonardo García-Alarcón.
The opera tells a story of love, power, betrayal, and jealousy in the style of Commedia dell’arte, set during the Venetian Carnival.
Reviews and Highlights of the Performance:
Forumopera, 13.09.2025, Maurice Salles:
"Valer Sabadus deserves high praise for the way he manages to combine lightness and density, nonchalance and fervor."
Platea magazine, 14.09.2025, Jordi Maddaleno:
"The sensual expressiveness of Servilio by Valer Sabadus"
Opera in casa, 20.09.2025, Nicolò Minato:
"Valer Sabadus, a brilliant Servillo/Arlecchino"
Die Rheinpfalz, 24.09.2025, Karl Georg Berg:
"Countertenor Valer Sabadus, a star of his craft, added another highlight to the ensemble as Scipione Servilio"
Now available to listen and watch: BR-Klassik and ARTE Concert(Available from 17 September)
TV broadcast: 26 October 2025, 21:45 on ARD alpha
Programm:
Francesco Cavalli - Pompeo magno (Dramma per musica in drei Akten mit dem Text von Nicolò Minato in italienischer Sprache)