Recitar Cantando
Monday 8th July 2013, 1:05pm Songs, scenes and madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi and others. “...it will be very special, for all the protagonists will speak in music; it is said on all sides that it will be a great sucess. No doubt I shall be driven to attend out of sheer curiosity, unless I am prevented from getting in by the lack of space...” (Carlo Magno writing before the première of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, 1607). Belén Barnaus Mendez - soprano Alicia Gurney - mezzo-soprano Dionysios Kyropoulos - bass James Bramley - theorbo & Baroque guitar Mie Ito - Baroque harp Donald Bennet - viola da gamba |