La Fonte Musica
19:15 introduction in Fentener van Vlissingen Foyer
Q&A after the concert in the Festival Lounge
La Fonte Musica lives up to its name with a sparkling Monteverdi production. Our artist in residence tackles the very first 'real' opera in history: the revolutionary L'Orfeo (1607), which is given a surprising new reading.
Michele Pasotti and his musicians delved deeply into the text and the notes, and discovered a work that is much more than a museum piece. Monteverdi's ingenious synthesis - which forged recitatives, arias, madrigal choruses and dances into one irresistible whole - gains even more brilliance and urgency as a result. With flutes and strings in pastoral scenes, trombones in the underworld, and a regal worthy of Charon, La Fonte Musica restores the bridge between old and new, so mindfully sketched by Monteverdi.
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Programme
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Claudio Monteverdi
L’Orfeo, 1607
(Libretto: Alessandro Striggio)1567-1643
Musicians
- Characters
- Mauro Borgioni Orpheus
- Monica Piccinini Music
- Anna Piroli Eurydice
- Alena Dantcheva The Messenger
- Yetzabel Arias Fernandez Hope
- Salvo Vitale Charon
- Francesca Cassinari Proserpina
- Alessandro Ravasio Pluto
- Riccardo Pisani Apollo, Shepherd 3
- Massimo Altieri Shepherd 1, Echo
- Andres Montilla Shepherd 2
- Cristina Fanelli Nymph
- Matteo Bellotto Shepherd 4
- Massimo Lombardi Spirit I
- Roberto Rilievi Spirit II
- Angelo Testori Spirit III
- Guglielmo Buonsanti Spirit IV
- Choirs of Nymphs and Shepherds, Infernal Spirits
- Monica Piccinini, Alena Dantcheva, Cristina Fanelli, Francesca Cassinari, Yetzabel Arias, Anna Piroli soprano
- Elena Carzaniga, Bernd Froehlich, Andres Montilla Acurero alto
- Massimo Altieri, Riccardo Pisani, Massimo Lombardi, Angelo Testori, Roberto Rilievi tenor
- Alessandro Ravasio, Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale, Guglielmo Buonsanti bass
- Fritjof Smith, Gebhard David cornetto, flute
- Michele Santi, Matteo Frigé trumpet
- Lorenzo d’Erasmo percussion
- Emily White, Catherine Motuz, Ermes Giussani, Adam Chrighton sackbut
- Giulia Genini dulcian, flute
- Stefano Rossi, Lathika Vithanage violin
- Gianni de Rosa, Efix Puleo viola
- Rodney Prada viola da gamba, lirone
- Vanni Moretto bass violin
- Riccardo Coelati Rama violone
- Michele Pasotti, Stan Geudens theorbe
- Margret Koell triple harp
- Federica Bianchi harpsichord
- Takashi Watanabe organ, regal
