La Fonte Musica / Michele Pasotti
L'Orfeo, de eerste opera van Monteverdi
Dates
fri 28 mar 2025 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 52
duration
1h 40' Extra info
introduction Liesbeth Segers / 19:15 / Blue Bar
language
Dutch surtitling
La Fonte Musica brings Monteverdi's L'Orfeo to life with innovative enthusiasm.
Michele Pasotti's Italian ensemble La Fonte Musica has an 'energy and a quality reminiscent of the pioneers of the historical performance practice of medieval music', according to the French Diapason. In particular, the way in which the ensemble researches texts and their meaning creates space for fresh perspectives. At THE SINGEL they focus on L'Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi's first opera, about the poet and musician Orpheus. With his music he managed to soften up the gods to save his dead Eurydice from the underworld. In medieval poetry, la fonte musica (the fountain of music, or the source of music) was considered to be a place of regeneration and life and a symbol of pleasure. And according to La Fonte Musica, that is precisely how Monteverdi's Orfeo should sound.
Works
L’Orfeo, Favola in Musica
Credits
musical performance
musical direction
soprano
tenor
baritone
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