Students, teachers and operators join together to set up a comic opera that Hapsburg Kapellmeister Antonio Draghi composed for Vienna while moving to Prague to escape from the plague in 1679/1680....
Monteverdi Festival embarks on a new music cruise on the Po River, tracing the steps of Monteverdi’s life and connecting his beloved towns, Cremona, Mantua and Venice. This time, we will reach...
L’homme armé… The armed man should be feared… One of the most famous and investigated Renaissance songs opens the extraordinary concert at the end of the Festival: men, soldiers, dukes,...
There were amazing violinists and composers, travellers across Europe – from Naples to London, from Paris to Amsterdam – virtuoso players and improvisers, acclaimed by the audience, longed for by...
Sailors, bards, Roman soldiers, Greek warriors, fathers, princes and prophets… all men and heroes of the rich operatic pattern drawn by Antonio Florio’s exciting ensemble Cappella Neapolitana,...
Ecstasy and rage, adagio and allegro, sky and earth, voice and instruments, love and madness, aria and recitative, power and madness, ice storm and storm of notes… The palette of emotions is widely...
The musical revolution over the 16th and 17th centuries that was announced in Giulio Caccini’s Le Nuove Musiche (Florence, 1601) originated from a slow transformation from 'prima prattica' to...
Alfonso II d’Este, duke of Ferrara for almost 40 years (1559-1597) was a true hero of the arts in the Renaissance: in spite of the plague and financial crisis, the arts flourished at his court, with...
Albinoni, Marcello, Vivaldi and a few years later Galuppi… are all composers, musicians and teachers born in Venice, who lived and worked in the lively Venice at the end of the 17th century,...
