Mask

Programmes - Choreographed - A Venetian Carnival

(To create the essence of the show we bring simple props, scenery and lighting)

Philippa Hyde soprano
Tim Carleston counter-tenor
Daisy Vatalaro baroque cello
Helen Rogers harpsichord and chamber organ

Venice: a city of pleasure, of lovers, excess and extravagance. Masked figures, courtesans, the wedding of the Doge to the Sea, the exuberance of Carnivale, tales of lust, betrayal and murder.

Diaries, letters and words from John Evelyn, John Ruskin, Dr Charles Burney, Charles de Brosses, Wiliam Beckford and Jennifer Janse. Music by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Marcello, Lotti, Stradella, Galuppi, Cavalli and Handel alongside the incomparable Red Priest, Antonio Vivaldi.

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Barbara Strozzi   Pietro Francesco Cavalli
Song 'Moralita Amorosa'   Duet 'O Bone Jesu'
Song 'Tradimento'    
    Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi   Song 'Maledetto sia l'aspetto'
Duet 'Sancta Maria'    
Song 'Jubilet'   Barbara Strozzi
Song 'Ego flos campi'   Duet 'Che dolce udire'
     
Antonio Vivaldi   Baldassare Galuppi
Cello sonata in A minor   Harpsichord Sonata in Bb major
     
Benedetto Marcello   Alessandro Stradella
Cantata 'L'usignolo che il suo duolo'   Song 'Si salvi chi può'
     
Antonio Lotti   George Frideric Handel
Duet 'Querèla amorosa'   Aria 'Tacerò'
     
INTERVAL   Claudio Monteverdi
    Duet 'Pur ti miro'