Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Carissimi oratoria
Dates
wed 05 feb 2025 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 42
duration
1h 55' interval
ca. 20:45
Extra info
talk Piet Van Bockstal and Lionel Meunier / 19:15 / Blue Bar
Vox Luminis performs Carissimi's masterful oratorios that led to the 17th century opera.
Without Giacomo Carissimi, the oratorio and the recitative might never have existed. The 17th-century Italian composer - an important predecessor of, and source of inspiration for Antonio Vivaldi - turned out to be a brilliant free spirit at the time of the counter-reformation. He was an advocate of emotional music to convert the people, and smuggled the intense expression of the opera into spiritual music. Operas were created with his masterly oratorios - inspired by Bible stories such as those of Jeptha and Jonas, and his reflections on the transience of worldly ambitions in Vanitas Vanitatum. These include all the drama, tension and broad emotional spectrum characteristic of 17th-century opera. A language that Vox Luminis from Lionel Meunier has mastered to perfection. Experience the beauty and excitement in the 17th-century oratorio with Carissimi's three best and best-known oratorios.
Works
Vanitas Vanitatum
Jephte
Abraham et Isaac
Jonas