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Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.
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Using surviving payment records from venetian theatres, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by an ensemble which matches a Venetian theatre band of the time as closely as possible, comprising two violins, bass viol, two theorbos, harpsichord and a pentagonal virginal.
La Decima Musa, or The Tenth Muse
Music from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660
Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676)
Cantata: Se la giù negl'abissi
Torindo, ove s'in via, from Orimonte (1650)
Dolce Frode, from Eritrea (1652)
Menfi, mia patria, from Statira (1656)
Ecco l'idolo mio, from Elena (1659)
Barbara Strozzi (1619 -1677)
Sul Rodano severo, from Cantate, ariette, e duetti (1651)Francesco Lucio (1628 - 1658)
Donne belle e vezzose from Medoro (1658)
Medoro, e dove sei, from Medoro (1658)
Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 - 1684)
Rodope, dove sei, from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)
Marmi spietati from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Oliver Doyle, director