program - Teatro Ponchielli

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 450th 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 Cantigas de miragres e de loor (of
miracles and praises), composed during the XIIIth 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 XVIIth and
XVIIIth 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)
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).
PROGRAMMA FESTIVAL
sabato 14 maggio, ore 21.00 – Chiesa S. Marcellino
MODO ANTIQUO
Federico Maria Sardelli, direzione
SELVA MORALE E SPIRITUALE
di Claudio Monteverdi
Concerto di inaugurazione
Selva morale e spirituale represents the full achievement of Monteverdi’s long career as maestro di cappella
at S. Mark and other churches in Venice, where the luxuriant collection was published in 1640 (or 1641) and
dedicted to Eleonora Gonzaga, daughter of duke Vincenzo I. Modo Antiquo performs an exuberant and
theatrical selection of the most significant liturgical work since the Vespers 1610.
Domenica 15 maggio, ore 11.00 – Palazzo Fodri
JUSTIN TAYLOR, clavicembalo
LA TÉNÉBREUSE
Musiche di J. S. Bach, F. Couperin, J. D’Anglebert, J. J. Froberger
in collaborazione con International Competition Musica Antiqua - MA Festival Bruges
Orizzonti
As in a historical film on the France of Sun King or in a novel written by Benedetta Craveri, Justin Taylor –
winner of the 2015 Bruges Competition – traces the elegant sonorities of a French gallery among dances,
tombeau and toccatas. Notes of grace and poetry, pleasures and mystery, whispered on the keyboard in a
fascinating palace...
Domenica 15 maggio, ore 18.00 – Chiesa S. Omobono
LA GRANDE CHAPELLE
Albert Recasens, direzione
SALVE REGINA
Messa, mottetti e Magnificat di T. Luis de Victoria
Novità Festival
Born in Castille, Tomás Luis de Victoria worked in Italy, mainly in Rome, and probably represents the most
important composer of Spanish Renaissance. Among his sacred works, composed between the XVth and
XVIth century, the Salve Regina mass (Rome, 1592) stands out: it marvellously combines the Palestrina
Roman style and the expressive character typical of the Spanish tradition. The concert, including also
motets dedicated to the Virgin and the superb Magnificat for 8 voices, is performed by La Grande Chapelle
di Albert Recasens, invited for the first time at the Festival. Upon its foundation in 2005, fired by a desire to
spread Spain’s musical heritage, the ensemble has been awarded many prizes for the artistic rigour and
the original programmes.
Mercoledì 18 maggio, ore 21.00 – Museo civico Ala Ponzone
CREMONA ANTIQUA
Anna Camporini, soprano
Anna Bessi, mezzosoprano
ET IO CANTO PER LEI
Duetti di Claudio Monteverdi
In the elegant galleries of Palazzo Affaitati one can admire paintings, frescos and sculptures of 15th and 16th
century artists: portraits, still life, landscapes far distant in space and time, but brought back to life by
Monteverdi’s refined music and poetry... in a woman disguise.
Giovedì 19 maggio, ore 21.00 – Palcoscenico Teatro A. Ponchielli
MICHEL GODARD QUARTET
Michel Godard, serpentone, tuba e basso
Guillemette Laurens, voce
Gavino Murgia, voce e sassofono
Luciano Biondini, fisarmonica
A TRACE OF GRACE
Musiche di C. Monteverdi, M. Godard
Across – Novità Festival
Michel Godard is today one of the most interesting musicians: talented tuba player, he contributed to the
rediscovery of the Renaissance serpent; he performs crossover programmes with an individual style and an
outstanding virtuosism. His last project dedicated to Monteverdi combines jazz and baroque musicians in
search of a common language, among improvisations and daring harmonies. An evocative game of mirrors
and of contaminations merging past and present.
Venerdì 20 maggio, ore 21.00 – Chiesa S. Marcellino
GHISLIERI CHOIR & CONSORT
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Marta Fumagalli, contralto
Giulio Prandi, direzione
SOL RESPLENDET
Messa in re maggiore e mottettoni di G. B. Pergolesi
Pergolesi’s life has always had an aura of legend, due to the composer’s fame and intense activity and
probably to his premature death at the age of 26. Renown throughout Europe for his modern preRomantic operas, Pergolesi also wrote marvellous sacred music (such as his Stabat Mater). The Ghislieri
Choir & Consort perfoms his Mass in D and two unpublished motets dedicated to the Virgin (Dignas laudes
resonemus and Sol resplendet) in a magnificent concert for double choir and orchestra.
Sabato 21 maggio, ore 21.00 – Chiesa S. Marcellino
LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA
HESPÈRION XXI
Jordi Savall, direzione
IL LLIBRE VERMELL di MONTSERRAT
Canti e danze per la Vergine Nera di Montserrat
Not far from Barcelona, the Monastery of Montserrat, one of the most spiritual venues in Europe, rises on
an enchanting peak and is dedicated to the Black Madonna, patron saint of Catalonia since 1881. The 14thcentury manuscript Llibre Vermell is preserved here, saved from the Napoleonic sack. Jordi Savall and his
ensemble bring back to life the splendid collection of medieval dances, virelai, canons and liturgical songs
written to welcome the pilgrims after their long journey.
Domenica 22 maggio, ore 18.00 – Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi (Museo del Violino)
LES TALENS LYRIQUES
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenore
Anders J. Dahlin, tenore
Christophe Rousset, direzione
ZEFIRO TORNA
Musiche di C. Monteverdi, D. Castello, G. B. Fontana
In his Books of Madrigals, Claudio Monteverdi depicts all human feelings, light and intense, embodied in
an extremely modern music. Key-figure of the transition from Renaissance to Baroque, Monteverdi
explores the polyphonic madrigal, as well as the new path of monody leading later to operas and cantatas.
The prestigeous French ensemble Les Talens Lyriques performs the most beautiful madrigals (particularly
from Book VIII) and arias and duets from L’incoronazione di Poppea and from Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria.
Giovedì 26 maggio, ore 21.00 – Museo Civico Ala Ponzone
LUCA SCARLINI, storyteller
EURIDICE IN PERICOLO
Un racconto son et lumière sulle cantatrici di Claudio Monteverdi
Anna Bessi, mezzosoprano
CREMONA ANTIQUA
Musiche di C. Monteverdi, S. Rossi
Across
Famous singers of the time often came across Claudio Monteverdi’s life and music. The charming Adriana
Basile, sister of the famous author of The Tale of tales, was one of the most important performes of the
recitar cantando in Mantua, while nurturing her secret relationship with the refined and jelous Duke
Gonzaga. Salomone Rossi’s sister, Madama Europa, was also active at the court of Mantua and was
dramatically killed by the Spanish troops. Extraordinary women lived a life of light and shadows, during an
incredible artistic age, among wars and famine. Luca Scarlini tells us Monteverdi’s daily life between
Mantua and Cremona, for an unforgettable evening of theatre, improvisations, words and music.
Venerdì 27 maggio, ore 21.00 – Chiesa S. Marcellino
IL CANTO D’ORFEO
LES CORNETS NOIRS
Gianluca Capuano, direzione
VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE
di Claudio Monteverdi
The Monteverdi Festival could not miss the appointment with the magnificent Vespro della Beata Vergine
(Venice, 1610), an absolute cornerstone performed by Il Canto d’Orfeo, reinvited after a few years leave.
Monteverdi’s first sacred composition combines an intimate spiritual prayer to the versatile and lavishing
compositional forms.
Sabato 28 maggio, ore 21.00 – Chiesa S. Marcellino
THE TALLIS SCHOLARS
Peter Philips, direzione
GAUDE VIRGO
Musiche di J. Desprez, A. Lotti, C. Monteverdi, A. Pärt
A fascinating concert performed by the Tallis Scholars and dedicated to the Virgin Mary: the grand
architectures of Josquin’s Ave Maris Stella mass echo with the limpid and abstract sonorities of Pärt’s The
Woman with the Alabaster Box, with the dramatic intensity of Lotti’s Crucifixus and with the famous motets
composed by Monteverdi the ‘divine’.
Domenica 29 maggio, ore 11.00 – Palazzo Cavalcabò
RADIO ANTIQUA
Renato Dolcini, baritono
ALTRI CANTI D'AMOR
Musiche di C. Monteverdi, S. Landi, A. Caldara, G. F. Händel, N. Porpora
Résidences Jeunes Ensembles 2016
in collaborazione con Centre culturel de rencontre - Festival d’Ambronay e Ghislieri Musica, Pavia
Orizzonti
Madrigals, arias, cantatas spanning over 150 years of Italian music: chamber dramatic miniatures, often
composed and performed on one unique occasion – a diplomatic visit, an arcadic contest, or for the
pleasure of a prince and his court. Delicate voices and instruments resounded in the palaces of Mantua,
Rome, London... and in one of the most elegant Renaissance palaces in Cremona with Radio Antiqua, a
promising young ensemble founded in 2012 at The Hague.
Domenica 29 maggio, ore 18.00 – Palazzo Pallavicino Ariguzzi
MICROLOGUS
Patrizia Bovi, canto e direzione
MADRE DE DEUS
Cantigas de Santa Maria del Rey Alfonso X «El Sabio»
The over 400 Cantigas de Santa Maria represent one of the most important collections of Medieval
religious poems with music notation, composed under the patronage and influence of King Alfonso X of
Castille. Preserved in several precious 13th-century manuscripts, the fascinating Cantigas are related to
Marian miracles and depict the Virgin with both earthly and heavenly traits. A marvellous universe and
everyday life from the Middle Ages that the Micrologus ensemble rebuilds with rigour and energy.
Giovedì 2 giugno, ore 21.00 – Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi (Museo del Violino)
ROBERTA INVERNIZZI & SONIA PRINA
Ensemble Claudiana
Luca Pianca, direzione
AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE
Musiche di C. Monteverdi, F. Durante, G. F. Händel, A. Lotti, B. Marcello
The concert casts light over some masterpieces of Italian Baroque music performed by outstanding artists:
Luca Pianca, the co-founder of Giardino Armonico, soprano Roberta Invernizzi and alto Sonia Prina. An
intense and moving programme dedicated to Love and Death combining beautiful arias and duets of
celebrated 17th-century Italian composers.
MONTEVERDI MUSIC CRUISE
Concerts and readings on board from Cremona to Mantua and Venice
3 – 4 June 2016
Monteverdi Festival sets sail for a new Music Cruise, ready
for the journey that Monteverdi undertook so many times
between Cremona, Mantua and Venice. Concerts on the
deck and at the berth, in marvellous venues such as
Gonzaga’s Palazzo Ducale or S. Giorgio Island. A boating
holiday, a romantic dinner on the deck, floating on the
water and discovering a stunning ancestrial landscapes.
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
Virgins and Nymphs, Muses and Goddesses, tears, joys and laments. Spring breeze and
pitiful betrayals. Woman is the core of this concert, both sacred and secular, featuring
music by Monteverdi, Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, as well as by Latin
American composers that Voz Latina, the ensemble founded in Cremona but of
Argentinian descent, aims at rediscovering
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
ENSEMBLE BAROCCO DELL'ORCHESTRA DA CAMERA DI MANTOVA
Francesco Moi, clavicembalo
IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA
by C. Monteverdi
in collaboration with Mantova Chamber Music Festival
Composed in 1624 for the Carnival season and published in the Eighth
Book of madirigals (Venice, 1638), Il combattimento is an absolute
masterpiece, combining both madrigal and dramatic style, in which
Monteverdi is looking for innovative solutions as to music and theatre.
Tancredi and Clorinda’s romance, set against the backdrop of the first
crusade, and drawn from the La Gerusalemme liberata, will be evoked in
the marvellous setting of Palazzo Ducale, with the voices of Anna
Simboli, Mauro Borgioni and Raffaele Giordani.
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
Crossing a bridge over distant styles and ages, the soprano Laura Catrani meets
the oral tradition of the Nuova Brigata Pretolana, combining war and love songs
and Monteverdi’s scherzi and canzonette. With their rudimentary percussions
(cutlery, bottles, sticks, trays, bricks and so on), bards and musicians give life to
the Nymph, the Turkish Dame, 17th-century knights and ladies, and sing postwar popular tales, ballads and serenades. Performing music together, without
denying their own identity, and discovering that a surprising common world still
exists.
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
Francesca Aspromonte, soprano
Ivano Zanenghi, liuto
A DONNA BELLA E CRUDELE
Arias for soprano and continuo by Barbara Strozzi
in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
A refined and intimate concert dedicated to one of the most fascinating women of the 17th century: daughter of the renown
librettist Giulio Strozzi, Barbara was a prolific composer, she studied with Cesti and Cavalli and was member of the
Accademia degli Unisoni in Venice. The concert will be held in the splendid neoclassical halls of Teatro La Fenice.
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 & BOOKING
Call Center Consorzio Navigare L’Adda
Phone 029094242
Opening hours: Mon -Sun: 10.00-18.00
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INFORMATION MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL
Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli
C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 52 - CREMONA
phone 0372.022010/011 fax 0372.022099
e-mail: info@teatroponchielli.it
www.teatroponchielli.it
PREZZI ABBONAMENTO E BIGLIETTI
ABBONAMENTO
Abbonamento (n. 14 concerti)
(posto unico)
€ 200,00
Prelazione ex abbonati e nuovi abbonamenti dal 22 febbraio al 4 marzo
BIGLIETTI
Concerti del 21, 27 e 28 maggio
€ 25,00
Concerti del 14, 20 e 22 maggio
€ 20,00
Concerti del 15 (pom), 19 maggio, 29 maggio (pom) e 2 giugno € 15,00
Concerto del 15 (matt)e 29 maggio (mattina)
€ 10,00
Incontri con l’arte e la musica del 18 e 26 maggio
€ 5,00
Weekend 1 dal 14 al 15 maggio (3 concerti)
Weekend 2 dal 19 maggio al 22 maggio (4 concerti)
Weekend 3 dal 27 maggio al 29 maggio (4 concerti)
Domeniche a palazzo (2 concerti, ore 11.00 e ore 18.00)
Biglietto studenti € 8,00
Biglietti dei singoli concerti in vendita dal 5 marzo
INFORMAZIONI e PRENOTAZIONI CROCIERA
Call Center Consorzio Navigare L’Adda
Tel. 029094242
Orari di apertura: Lunedi - Domenica, 10.00-18-00
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INFORMAZIONI MONTEVERDI FESTIVAL
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€ 43,00
€ 75,00
€ 70,00
€ 23,00