De Warme Winkel & Nederlands Kamerkoor

For ‘Gesualdo’, De Warme Winkel and the Nederlands Kamerkoor delve into the life and work of the controversial 16th-century figure Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613). As well as being eccentric, impossible and malicious, this Italian renaissance prince and composer was also a brilliant creative artist. There are the craziest stories about him in circulation. He is said to have murdered his wife and her lover. He tortured animals and had his staff whip him. Was he brilliant or mad? Or both? The contrast between Gesualdo’s wondrously beautiful music and his perverse excesses is the driving force behind a quest for ‘the sublime’, for something that inspires both revulsion and fascination. The choir and the actors lure you with them into a world full of wicked demons. In characteristic Warme Winkel style.