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The Combat between Tancredi and Clorinda
and other songs of love and war. di Claudio Monteverdi
February 22 Sunday, 23 Monday, 24 Tuesday , 2009 at 8 p.m.
Palazzo Mocenigo - San Stae - Venice
The concert will begin with songs of love and war by Monteverdi and other
Baroque composers, followed by the beautiful The Combat between Tancredi and
Clorinda by Monteverdi with mimes portraying the tale told by Tasso in Jerusalem
Delivered. The works will be performed by VeniDilecteMi conducted by Jonathan
Paradella and directed by Marco Bellussi. The role of the Testo will be sung by
Marco Mustaro, Tancredi by Alberto Allegrezza and Clorinda by Sara Bino.
The ambience of Palazzo Mocenigo, which belonged to Girolamo Mocenigo, who
commissioned the first performance of Combattimento in 1624, provides an exciting
experience of immersion in the art, music and theater in Venice in the early 17th century.
The tale is about Clorinda, the Moslem heroine, and Tancredi, the Christian knight
and their tragic love which ends in death, eros/thanatos. This performance of Tancredi
and Clorinda is a hybrid theaterical genre, interweaving the protagonists immersed in
the action (Tancredi and Clorinda) and an external observer (the Testo), a combination
of direct dialogue and epic narration sung to the magnificent music of Monteverdi.
TICKETS:
Palazzo Mocenigo - San Stae Teleart: tel. (+39)041 271 9090 APT Tourist Office Venezia (+39) 041 529 8711 Bus station, Santa Lucia Train Station, S. Marco |