Stravaganza d'Amore!
STRAVAGANZA D'AMORE!
Pygmalion, choir and orchestra
Raphaël Pichon, conductor
The lavish princely entertainments that were given in Italy since the Renaissance, and in particular at the Medici Court in Florence, were famous throughout Europe. The musical interludes that adorned them were already true dramatic masterpieces which marvelously combined music and poetry. They set a frame for the birth of the Italian Opera, Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607) being their direct heir with its almost perfect architecture, the depth of its expression and the immanent beauty of its music. In a state of grace, Raphaël Pichon invites you to discover these Italian splendours, by imagining a princely interlude conceived with the most sumptuous pieces of music of the turn of the 1600s that is both true opera scenes but also gigantic polychoral pieces for thirty voices. All of them filmed here in the most beautiful palatial Gallery in the World: namely, we invite you on a dreamlike musical journey in the Hall of Mirrors of the Château de Versailles.
Filmed in February 2019 in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles.
Produced by Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles.
You may find the booklet, available in French and English, by clicking here
You may find this recording on our online shop by clicking here
- Genre Concert
- Period Musique XVIIe
- pieces The birth of Opera at the Medici's
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini, Cristoforo Malvezzi, Girolamo Fantini, Marco da Gagliano, Luca Marenzio, Jacopo Peri, Alessandro Orologio, Lorenzo Allegri, Pietro Antonio Giramo, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Emilio de Cavalieri
- Musical Ensemble Pygmalion
- Conductor Raphael Pichon
- Soloists Lea Desandre - Eva Zaïcik - Lucile Richardot - Davy Cornillot- -Emiliano Gonzalez Toro - Zachary Wilder - Nicolas Brooymans
- Duration 1h47
STRAVAGANZA D'AMORE!
Pygmalion, choir and orchestra
Raphaël Pichon, conductor
The lavish princely entertainments that were given in Italy since the Renaissance, and in particular at the Medici Court in Florence, were famous throughout Europe. The musical interludes that adorned them were already true dramatic masterpieces which marvelously combined music and poetry. They set a frame for the birth of the Italian Opera, Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607) being their direct heir with its almost perfect architecture, the depth of its expression and the immanent beauty of its music. In a state of grace, Raphaël Pichon invites you to discover these Italian splendours, by imagining a princely interlude conceived with the most sumptuous pieces of music of the turn of the 1600s that is both true opera scenes but also gigantic polychoral pieces for thirty voices. All of them filmed here in the most beautiful palatial Gallery in the World: namely, we invite you on a dreamlike musical journey in the Hall of Mirrors of the Château de Versailles.
Filmed in February 2019 in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles.
Produced by Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles.
You may find the booklet, available in French and English, by clicking here
You may find this recording on our online shop by clicking here
- Genre Concert
- Period Musique XVIIe
- pieces The birth of Opera at the Medici's
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini, Cristoforo Malvezzi, Girolamo Fantini, Marco da Gagliano, Luca Marenzio, Jacopo Peri, Alessandro Orologio, Lorenzo Allegri, Pietro Antonio Giramo, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Emilio de Cavalieri
- Musical Ensemble Pygmalion
- Conductor Raphael Pichon
- Soloists Lea Desandre - Eva Zaïcik - Lucile Richardot - Davy Cornillot- -Emiliano Gonzalez Toro - Zachary Wilder - Nicolas Brooymans
- Duration 1h47
