Caravaggio and Monteverdi share the same historical moment—the age of Mannerism—and the same expressive koiné: the poetics of the affections. It is therefore only natural that they should be brought together in this highly original performance.
Under the banner of “Pur ti miro”—the final duet from L’incoronazione di Poppea—La Venexiana, the ensemble founded in 1997 by the late Claudio Cavina and long devoted to the renewal of the madrigal repertoire, joins forces with Compagnia Teatri 35, which for over twenty years has explored the theatrical practice of tableaux vivants.
In their dialogue, unfolding through the music of Monteverdi, Gagliano, Schütz, Frescobaldi and their contemporaries, image becomes sound and sound becomes vision.
PROGRAMME
Pur ti miro
Caravaggio and Monteverdi: Music and Tableaux Vivants
MUSICAL INTRODUCTION
Marco da Gagliano
Vergine bella
Claudio Monteverdi
Sancta Maria, succurre miseris
Giovanni Priuli
Ave dulcissima Maria
Claudio Monteverdi
Pulchra es
Giovanni Felice Sances
Alma Redemptoris
MUSIC AND THEATRICAL ACTION
Heinrich Schütz
Verbum caro factum est
Claudio Monteverdi
Iam moriar, mi fili
Michelangelo Grancini
Ave Sanctissima Maria
Alessandro Grandi
O quam tu pulchra es
Domenico Mazzocchi
Dovemo piangere la Passione di N.S.
Claudio Monteverdi
Salve Regina
Claudio Monteverdi
O bone Jesu
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Maddalena alla croce
Antonio Brunelli
Anima mea liquefacta est
Claudio Monteverdi
Pur ti miro