Castlemaine State Festival Presents Mayaan Licht

Mayaan Licht

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