17 February 2026 - 17 February 2026
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Elvet Methodist Church
£10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s
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.
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 MuseMusic from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676)Cantata: Se la giù negl'abissiTorindo, 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
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