Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury. Enter Maayan Licht, the dazzling sopranista hailed as one of Europe’s most electrifying new stars, making his long-awaited Australian debut. With a stage persona as flamboyant as it is fearless, he unleashes devilish trills and high-voltage charisma on the virtuosic arias of Vivaldi, Handel, and Porpora.
At his side, the brilliant early-music master Neal Peres da Costa leads a hand-picked baroque ensemble, driving the drama with glittering brilliance. Expect a night where baroque fire meets rock-star glamour.
But it isn’t just about the high notes. Licht brings a quicksilver sense of character to every phrase, switching between tenderness, swagger and bite with effortless confidence. What could be pure display becomes something far more engaging — music with personality.
A voice like this is rare.
Hearing it this close is rarer still.
Programme
Gelosia, tu già rendi l'alma mia
Ottone in Villa – Antonio Vivaldi
Vedrò con mio diletto
Il Giustino – Antonio Vivaldi
Zed Yahir, Mimeni Heref
Ester Oratorio - Cristiano Giuseppe
Nel gia bramoso petto
Nicola Porpora
Son qual nave
Son qual nave - Riccardo Broschi
Gelido in ogni vena
Farnace - Antnonio Vivaldi
Brilla nell'alma un non inteso ancor
Alessandro - George Frideric Handel
Un pensiero nemico di pace - Say my Name
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno - George Frideric Handel - Beyonce
Da tempeste il legno infranto
Giuilio Cesare - George Frideric Handel
Habanera
Carmen -George Bizet