17 February 2026 - 17 February 2026
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Elvet Methodist Church
£10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.
Delia Fiordilino as Health in Lo Spedale, Sands Films 2018 © Annika Derksen
Using surviving payment records from venetian theatres, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by an ensemble which matches a Venetian theatre band of the time as closely as possible, comprising two violins, bass viol, two theorbos, harpsichord and a pentagonal virginal.
Musica Antica RotherhitheOliver Doyle, director
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La Decima Musa, or The Tenth MuseMusic from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660
Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676)Cantata: Se la giù negl'abissiTorindo, ove s'in via, from Orimonte (1650)Dolce Frode, from Eritrea (1652)Menfi, mia patria, from Statira (1656)Ecco l'idolo mio, from Elena (1659) Barbara Strozzi (1619 -1677)Sul Rodano severo, from Cantate, ariette, e duetti (1651)
Francesco Lucio (1628 - 1658)Donne belle e vezzose from Medoro (1658)Medoro, e dove sei, from Medoro (1658)
Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 - 1684)Rodope, dove sei, from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)Marmi spietati from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)
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