Monteverdi Festival
Monteverdi Festival is one of the most important early music festivals in Italy, founded in 1986 and dedicated to Claudio Monteverdi. Monteverdi Festival invites every
year well-known Italian and Jordi Savall international music ensembles and soloists: Concerto Italiano, Tallis Scholars, Accademia Bizantina, Jordi Savall, Giovanni Sollima, King’s Singers, Il Giardino Armonico, and many others. The repertoire spreads from Mediaeval to Late Baroque music, with cross-over concerts, unpublished premières and new discoveries.
Monteverdi Festival spreads out during the spring throughout the town, looking for unusual venues: sacred music is performed in the beautiful baroque churches of the town (S. Marcellino, S. Tallis Scholars Maria Maddalena, S. Abbondio), and secular music concerts are held in cloisters, courts, historical villas, as well as im the recently opened Auditorium Arvedi, a beautiful concert-hall projected by the sound engineer Yasuhisa Toyota, and built within the Violin Museum. Since 2013 Monteverdi Festival is member of REMA (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne)
MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL 2016 Virgins, Nymphs and Queens Cremona, 14 May – 4 June 2016
Virgins, Nymps and Queens… a crowd of changing women will throng the 2016 Monteverdi Festival: a prism of womanly baroque affetti , now passionate, now motherly, spiritual, fervent, heavenly, ambitious, languid... Countless are the qualities of the women starring in the many concerts of the Festival, mainly dedicated to Claudio Monteverdi, with an eye on the celebrations of his 450 th anniversary in 2017: from the inauguration with tle magnificent Selva morale e spirituale performed by Modo Antiquo conductd by Federico Maria Sardelli (May 14) to love &death moving duets sung by two marvellous queens of early music, Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi (June 2); from the madrigali guerrieri et amorosi performed by the renown ensemble Les Talens Lyriques (May 22), back in Cremona after a long time, to the elegant and mysterious French noblewomen evoked at the harpsichord by Justin Taylor, winner of the prestigeous Bruges International Competition (May 15). But woman of all women, perfect and holy mother and wife, is the Virgin Mary, celebrated in many of the sacred concerts of the Festival: from the usual performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine , assigned this year to Il Canto d’Orfeo directed by Gianluca Capuano (May 27), to the Black Madonna of Montserrat, honoured by Jordi Savall and his Capella Reial de Catalunya (May 21) ; from De Victoria’s Salve Regina and other motets dedicated to the Virgin, interpreted by La Grande Chapelle (May 15), for the first time at the Festival, to a magnificent programme dedicated to Pergolesi’s music performed by Ghislieri Choir & Consort (May 20). We will go back to Spain, in Castile, with the Micrologus (May 29) to admire the C antigas de miragres e de loor (of miracles and praises), composed during the XIII th century for Alfonso X ‘el Sabio’. The Tallis Scholars will also depict the Virgin, praised in breathtaking compositions by Josquin, Monteverdi and...Pärt (May 28). During the weekends of May, new horizons of early music ( Orizzonti ) will be explored and young talents discovered: from the already mentioned Justin Taylor to the north-European ensemble Radio Antiqua, invited in collaboration with the Festival d’Ambronay and featuring XVII th and XVIII th century Italian cantatas and sonatas (May 29). Last but not least, the usual crossover concert of the Festival, for an unusual sound experience, this time with the renown and elegant French jazz player Michel Godard ( Across , May 19): early music mirrors jazz music, finding a common language, an indissoluble bond...
As usual, Monteverdi Festival spreads out during the spring throughout the town, looking for unusual venues: sacred music is performed in the beautiful baroque churches of the town, and secular music concerts are held in cloisters, courts, historical villas, as well as in the beautiful Auditorium Arvedi.
Moreover, there are many collateral events enlivening the Festival (Monteverdi OFFicine ): meeting the artists, Euridice’s adventurous story told by the fascinating Luca Scarlini (May 26), a conversation on women in art with Flavio Caroli, and a new project of early music masterclasses , held by excellent artists, such as Stefano Montanari, Christoph Rousset, Sonia Prina e Roberta Invernizzi,and dedicated to the performance practice of the baroque violin, the harpsichord and the voice.
Riding the wave of last year’s success, Monteverdi Festival sets sail again, ready for the journey that Monteverdi undertook so many times between Cremona, Mantua and Venice. A new Music Cruise on the waterway connecting the Po river, the Mincio river and the Venetian Lagoon. A boating holiday to discover the region from an usual visual, rhythmed by readings, the placid flowing of water and... women in music (June 3-4).
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MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL 2016 Programme Week-end 1 Saturday, 14 MAY – Chiesa S.Marcellino h. 9.00 p.m. MODO ANTIQUO Federico Maria Sardelli , direzione
SELVA MORALE E SPIRITUALE di Claudio Monteverdi Concerto di inaugurazione
Sunday, 15 MAY – Palazzo Fodri, h. 11.00 a.m. JUSTIN TAYLOR , harpsichord
LA TÉNÉBREUSE Music by J. S. Bach, F. Couperin, J. D’Anglebert, J. J. Froberger in collaboration with International Competition Musica Antiqua - MA Festival Bruges
Sunday,15 MAY – Chiesa di S.Omobono h. 6.00 p.m. LA GRANDE CHAPELLE Albert Recasens , conductor
SALVE REGINA Mass, motes and Magnificat by T. Luis de Victoria
Wednesday, 18 MAY – Museo Civico Ala Ponzone h. 9.00 p.m. FLAVIO CAROLI , art historian CON GLI OCCHI DEI MAESTRI
Week-end 2 Thursday, 19 MAY – Palcoscenico del Teatro Ponchielli h. 9.00 p.m. MICHEL GODARD QUARTET
A TRACE OF GRACE Music by Monteverdi, M. Godard
Friday, 20 MAY – Chiesa di S.Marcellino h. 9.00 p.m. GHISLIERI CHOIR & CONSORT Giulio Prandi , conductor
MASS Mass in D and motet by G. B. Pergolesi
Saturday, 21 MAY – Chiesa di S.Marcellino – h. 9.00 p.m. LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA HESPÈRION XXI Jordi Savall , conductor
IL LLIBRE VERMELL di MONTSERRAT Songs and dances for the Black Madonna of Montserrat
Sunday, 22 MAY – Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi (Museo del Violino) h. 6.00 p.m. LES TALENS LYRIQUES Christophe Rousset , conductor
ZEFIRO TORNA Music by C. Monteverdi, D. Castello, S. Rossi
Thursday, 26 MAY – Museo Civico Ala Ponzone h. 9.00 p.m. LUCA SCARLINI , storyteller
EURIDICE IN PERICOLO A son et lumière story about Monteverdi’s singers
Week-end 3 Friday, 27 MAY – Chiesa di S.Marcellino h. 9.00 p.m. IL CANTO D’ORFEO Gianluca Capuano , conductor
VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE by Claudio Monteverdi
Saturday, 28 MAY – Chiesa di S.Marcellino h. 9.00 p.m. THE TALLIS SCHOLARS Peter Philips , conductor
GAUDE VIRGO Music by J. Desprez, A. Lotti, C. Monteverdi, A. Pärt
Sunday, 29 MAY - Palazzo Cavalcabò h. 11.00 a.m. RADIO ANTIQUA Renato Dolcini , baritone
ALTRI CANTI D'AMOR Music byC. Monteverdi, S. Landi, A. Caldara, G. F. Händel, N. Porpora Résidences Jeunes Ensembles 2016 in collaboration with Centre culturel de rencontre - Festival d’Ambronay e Ghislieri Musica, Pavia
Sunday, 29 MAY – Palazzo Pallavicino Ariguzzi h. 6.00 p.m. MICROLOGUS Patrizia Bovi , conductor
MADRE DE DEUS Cantigas de Santa Maria del Rey Alfonso X «El Sabio»
Week-end 4
Thursday, 2 JUNE – Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi (Museo del Violino) h. 9.00 p.m. ROBERTA INVERNIZZI & SONIA PRINA Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca , conductor
AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Music by C. Monteverdi, F. Durante, G. F. Händel, A. Lotti, B. Marcello
Friday 3 and Saturday 4 JUNE MUSIC CRUISE Concerts and reading on board from Cremona to Mantua and Venice
Monteverdi OFF A space to think, discuss and meet with the artists, discovering their secrets and dreams. Monteverdi Festival organizes three masterclasses dedicated to the performance practice of the violin, the harpsichord and the voice. An open space for young talents starting their career and willing to learn from professional renown musicians.
9 May THE VIOLIN Stefano Montanari
23 May THE HARPSICHORD Christoph Rousset
31 May THE VOICE Roberta Invernizzi & Sonia Prina
MONTEVERDI MUSIC CRUISE Concerts and readings on board from Cremona to Mantua and Venice 3 – 4 June 2016
Monteverdi Festival embarks on a music cruise on the Po river, tracing the steps and stages of Monteverdi’s life. A journey he undertook himself many times. Concerts on the deck and at the berth, organised with the Comune di Mantova and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. A cruise throughout the ancient and modern history of the Po, among centennials forests, farmlands and lagoons, peering castles and bell towers.
Friday, 3 June h. 8.45 – Meeting point in Largo Marinai d’Italia and boarding on Stradivari Boat, one of the biggest boats sailing down the River Po. h. 9.00 – Departure from Cremona
h. 11.00 – Concert on the deck ENSEMBLE VOZ LATINA
L’AMANTE SEGRETO Music by C. Monteverdi, F. Caccini, F. Cavalli, T. Merula, B. Strozzi h. 12.30 – Lunch on board h. 13.30 /14.00 – Arrival in Casalmaggiore and Bus Transfer to Sacchetta h. 16.00 – Boarding at Sacchetta, destination Mantua h. 18.00 – Arrival in Mantua. City touring. h. 18.10 – BusTransfer to the hotel and return at h. 19.00 to Mantua town centre (optional)
h. 19.30 – Palazzo Ducale ,Mantua ACCADEMIA DEGLI INVAGHITI
IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA by C. Monteverdi in collaboration with Mantova Chamber Music Festival h. 21.00 – Dinner on board in the middle of the Inferior Lake with a stunning view by night of Mantua’s skyline h. 22.30 – Transfer to the hotel
Saturday, 4 June h. 8.00 – Bus transfer from Mantua to Taglio di Po (RO) h. 10.30 – Boarding at Taglio di Po, Motonave Delta Tour h. 12.30 – Stop in Chioggia and short guided tour h. 13.00 –Lunch on board, sailing towards Venice h. 14.00 –Stop at the Island of S. Giorgio Maggiore
h. 14.30 – Concert at the Island of S. Giorgio NUOVA BRIGATA PRETOLANA Laura Catrani , soprano
CANTI D’AIA, DI BOTTEGA E DI CORTE Music by C. Monteverdi and popular songs h. 16.00 – Panoramic tour of the Lagoon. Arrival in Venice, Zattere at h. 17.00, and transfer on foot to Teatro La Fenice.
h. 18.00 – Teatro La Fenice, Sale Apollinee ENSEMBLE DELLA FENICE
A DONNA BELLA E CRUDELE Arias for soprano and continuo by Barbara Strozzi in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, Venezia h. 21..15 –Transfer from Pontile Zattere to Tronchetto. Bus transfer to Cremona (due arrival at h. 24.00)
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TICKETS € 370,00 per person Price includes: cruise, lunches and dinner on the cruise, accommodation in Mantua, trasfer, concerts.
INFORMATION MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 52 - CREMONA phone 0372.022010/011 fax 0372.022099 e-mail: [email protected] www.teatroponchielli.it
INFORMATION & BOOKING MONTEVERDI MUSIC CRUISE Call Center Consorzio Navigare L’Adda Phone 029094242 Opening hours: Tue- Thur, 10.00-14.00; Fri-Sun: 10.00-18.00 e-mail: [email protected] www.navigareinlombardia.it
Teatro Ponchielli A music theatre for everybody
Cremona is a lively artistic town of Lumbardy, not far from Milan, that holds many music institutions: Faculty of Musicology, School of violinmakers, Music Academy Walter Stauffer, Museum of violin, and so on. Founded in 1747 on the design of the Cremonese architect Giovanni Battista Zaist, Teatro Ponchielli was destroyed by a fire in 1806, then rebuilt soon after on the project of Luigi Canonica, famous theatre architect of the time, inspiring himself to his teacher Piermarini. In the typical shape of a horseshoe, with four orders of stalls and boxes, the “Teatro della Concordia”, later named after the main opera composer of the town, can host an audience of around 1100 people.
Teatro Ponchielli has an intense activity ranging every year from September to June and covering all sorts of music and theatrical genres, shows and performances: Opera Season: September to December (see below) Concert Season: December to April Theatre Season: December to May Dance Season: January to April Monteverdi Festival: May-June (see below) All season host international renown artists, from contemporary and classical dance to world and jazz music, from prestigeous European orchestras to refined chamber ensembles. Moroever, Teatro Ponchielli has also a rich educational programme, with special shows dedicated to schools (Oltreibanchi) and hosts short operas expressly arranged for 3-6 and 6-14 years old audience (Opera Kids and Opera domani). Teatro Ponchielli is the cultural living heart of the town and collaborates with other music institutions: - Accademia W. Stauffer (masterclasses, concerts “Omaggio a Cremona”) - Fondazione Antonio Stradivari (Competition of violin-making, special events and exhibitions) - University of Pavia, Dept. of Musicology (seminars, programmes)