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Early Music Festival
1
classical music, opera, theatre

Rolando Villazón and the Ensemble L'Arpeggiata Combattimento - semi-staged performance

  • 4 March 2022, Friday
  • 7 pm — 8:45 pm
  • no interval
  • Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest
no interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Featuring:

tenor
Rolando Villazón
soprano
Céline Scheen
mezzo-soprano
Benedetta Mazzucato
countertenor
Valer Sabadus
tenor
Cyril Auvity
bass
Renato Dolcini
dancers
Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Moonsuk Choi
Ensemble L'Arpeggiata

Creators:

concept, programme compilation, transcriptions and musical direction
Christina Pluhar
Hungarian surtitles
Éva Lax
English surtitles
Ilma Császár
lighting
Michel Delvigne
costumes
Stefanie Krimmel
choreography
Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Koen Augustijnen
  • Cavalieri: Sinfonia
  • Unknown composer: Homo fugit velut umbra (Passacaglia della vita)
  • Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa
  • Monteverdi: Interrotte speranze
  • Monteverdi: Si dolce è'l tormento
  • Caccini: Al canto, al ballo
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Rosa del Ciel" (Orfeo's aria from Act 1)
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Io non dirò" (Euridice's aria from Act 1)
  • Rossi: L'Orfeo - "Mio ben" (Euridice's aria from Act 2)
  • Cazzati: Ciaccona
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi" (Orfeo's aria from Act 2)
  • L. Allegri: Canario
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Ahi, caso acerbo" - "In un fiorito prato" (the trio of the Messenger and the Shepherds from Act 2)
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Tu sei morta" (Orfeo's aria from Act 2)
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Ma io in questa lingua" (the Messenger's aria from Act 2)
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Possente spirto" (Orfeo's aria from Act 3)
  • Sartorio: L'Orfeo - "Orfeo, tu dormi?" (Euridice's aria from Act 3)
  • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - "Qual honor di te” (Orfeo's aria from Act 4)
  • Rossi: Les pleurs d'Orphée ayant perdu sa femme (fantasy)
  • Ziani: Dormite, o pupille
  • Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Monteverdi, the Italian master of the early Baroque period, was the first great figure in opera, as well as the most important Italian practitioner of the genre of madrigals. Like many other composers, he occasionally blurred the boundaries between genres, sometimes making his madrigals suitable for the stage and certain excerpts from his operas lyrical compositions that could also be sung independently. This is the basis for this concert by Christina Pluhar's ensemble L'Arpeggiata when they present an 90-minute theatrical production compiled from works by the composer and his contemporaries at Müpa Budapest's Early Music Festival.

The subtitle of the programme - Duel - refers in part to the fact that the finalé to the composition created from the dozen and a half passages will be Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Monteverdi's dramatic masterpiece from his eighth volume of madrigals. Before that, however, we will hear excerpts from his seventh volume of madrigals and his opera L'Orfeo and Poppea, and the compilers of the programme have even included the works of other Italian Baroque masters (including Maurizi...o Cazzati, Antonio Sartorio, Luigi Rossi and Pietro Andrea Ziani) in the musical stream of vocal and instrumental movements that will be performed this evening. The star of this production conceived by Christina Pluhar and featuring costumes by Stefanie Krimmel and lighting effects by Michel Delvigne will be the globally celebrated Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón, joined by soprano Céline Scheen, countertenor Valer Sabadus, mezzo-soprano Benedetta Mazzucato, tenor Cyril Auvity and bass Renato Dolcini, who are all also internationally renowned artists in their own rights. Founded by the Austrian theorbo-player, harpist and conductor Christina Pluhar in 2000, the early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata is known for the spirit of discovery that pervades their productions.

The concert will be preceded, at 6.00 pm, by an introductory presentation by János Mácsai entitled Prelude in the Glass Hall. The program will be open to anyone holding a ticket for the performance, but subject to prior registration on our website.


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