Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Singer

Soprano

Silvia Frigato

Miriam Allan

Mariana Flores

Anna Dennis

Theano Papadaki

Contralto

Francesca Biliotti

Alto

Countertenor

Tim Morgan

Tenor

Gareth Treseder

Riccardo Pisani

Baritone

Furio Zanasi

Bass

Alex Rosen

John Taylor Ward

Orchestra

English Baroque Soloists

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Journey Through Monteverdi’s Italy

Cremona

Italy

Monteverdi Festival

Chiesa di Sant'Agostino

Journey Through Monteverdi’s Italy: Concert Various

Public

Private

Concert

Approved

Composer Claudio Monteverdi has been central to our organisation for 60 years. During this time, John Eliot Gardiner has been a pioneering figure in the revival of Monteverdi, breathing new life into little-known repertoire, giving Monteverdi his rightful place on international concert and opera stages.

This concert forms part of our summer project: Journey through Monteverdi’s Italy. This June, we will pay homage to Claudio Monteverdi through a spectacular documentary exploring the composer’s life and showcasing his sacred and secular music in richly evocative venues. For more information about the project, click here.

Our performance in Cremona is open to the public and will mark the last night of the 2023 Monteverdi Festival.

Monteverdi in Cremona - Sacred works

Monteverdi’s final major publications of music, his Selva morale e spirituale (1640-41) and Messa e Salmi (published posthumously in 1650) gather the greatest sacred works he composed in the final decades of his life. These richly varied pieces include works for choir, as well as for solo voices, and madrigalian meditations on the frailty of life. They also reveal the close connections between the sacred and the profane: the tragic Pianto della Madonna is a sacred version of the heroine’s lament from Monteverdi’s second opera, L’Arianna.

We will bring these impassioned and serene late works to the church of Sant’Agostino in Cremona, the town where the composer was born, which hosts an international festival of the composer’s music.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ensemble

Comhléiritheoir