Monteverdi's Madrigals V
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Gran Teatre del Liceu La Rambla 51-59, 08002 Barcelona
Image courtesy of Liceu.
Monteverdi's Madrigals, an essential catalogue in the history of music, represent the culmination of a genre, but—as they evolve—they also embody the birth of a whole new genre: opera.
Grouped into nine books and published between 1587 and 1651, we continue this splendid journey through this corpus, understood as an exercise in proto-opera and a theater of emotions.
Based on texts by Gian Battista Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and Giovanni Boccaccio, Monteverdi created an ambitious and innovative collection in which the declamatory was developed over time.
Idiomatically, they present a much more daring and innovative language of the genre, which is full of daring harmonic games. Monteverdi endowed the music with a taste for naturalistic detail and sensitive reality.
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor, harpsichordist and a true authority on the composer, will be the guide along the paths of this fascinating and luxuriant universe full of precious miniatures. Words, music, declamation and the concitato style are the first attempts to represent human passions through text and harmony.
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