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A Lost Baroque Opera

November 16, 2025, 8:00 pm

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Domenico Zipoli was one of the most remarkable Italian baroque composers. In 1717, he migrated to South America, where he contributed some of the most important music written on this side of the Atlantic. Fiesta presents his “lost” opera, dedicated to Saint Ignacio de Loyola.

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San Ignacio de Loyola, by Domenico Zipoli
Fabian Schofrin; Alicia Borges; Furio Zanasi, vocal soloists; Ensemble Elyma; Ensamble Louis Berger; Gabriel Garrido, conductor

Aria from Suite in F Major, by Domenico Zipoli
Interpreti Veneziane

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Meet the Host

Composer, musician, and professor, Elbio Rodríguez Barilari was born in 1953 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied at the Conservatório Universitario before continuing his education in Brazil at the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporáne. Since settling in the United States in 1998, Barilari has lectured at the University of Chicago and the Instituto Cervantes. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a composer, Barilari has received commissions from the Grant Park Music Festival, Concertante di Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo. In addition to works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments, he has provided scores for more than forty plays in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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