Roman oratorio and Venetian extravagance come collectively in Vice & Advantage, a live performance collaboration between North Winds Concert events and Music on the Met. It takes place February 7 on the Metropolitan United Church. The brand new musical is a co-production of The Gallery Gamers of Niagara of St Catharines, and Hamilton’s Capella Intima.
This system consists of Rossi’s oratorio Giuseppe, together with Venetian vocal and instrumental works by Monteverdi, Sances, and their contemporaries — works that proceed to develop the themes rising in Giusppe: Envy, Religion, Injustice, and Charity.
Luigi Rossi: Giuseppe (1650)
Rossi was born round Naples in 1597 or 1598. He spent most of his grownup life as a composer in Rome, working for Marc’Antonio Borghese, adopted by Cardinal Antonio Barberini. His work was nicely obtained in his day. The premiere of his opera Orfeo, his finest remembered work at present, was a sensation on its premiere in Paris in 1647 as a fully-staged six-hour lengthy extravaganza.
The story of Giuseppe relies on the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. The manuscript, amongst different Roman cantatas and oratorios, was found within the Barberini Codices of the Vatican library in 1954. The music was not signed, however was attributed to Luigi Rossi based mostly on the handwriting and musical type. The handwritten model seems in lots of college libraries at present.
Again in 2013, LvT reported on what could have been the primary native efficiency of Rossi’s oratorio. Inventive director Bud Roach discovered the manuscript on the College of Toronto library, and transcribed it right into a readable fashionable manuscript.
The oratorio tells a narrative about Joseph and his brothers. It begins with Joseph an grownup. He’s residing in Egypt, risen to a excessive place within the Pharoah’s court docket when his previously merciless brothers arrive. They arrive in the course of the famine Joseph predicted, and whereas he’s at first offended, Joseph in the end involves forgive them.
The oratorio is written for 5 vocalists, together with strings, theorbo (a plucked instrument just like a lute), and organ.
Extra works in this system embody items from Venetians Claudio Monteverdi, Nicolò Fontei, and Giovanni Croce, Roman composers Francesco Manelli and Giovanni Sances, and from Bologna, Maurizio Cazzati’s “Variazioni” for 2 violins.
Capella Intima: Vice & Advantage
Bud Roach, Inventive Director of Capella Intima, directs this system.
Performers come from each Capella Intima and the Gamers of Niagara. From Capella Intima: sopranos Sheila Dietrich & Ellen Torrie; alto Laura Pudwell; tenor Bud Roach; and baritone David Roth. From the Gallery Gamers of Niagara: Patricia Ahern & Michelle Odorico, baroque violins; Margaret Homosexual, baroque cello; Lucas Harris and Jonathan Stuchbery, theorbo and lutes; and Jonathan Oldengarm, portative organ & harpsichord.
- Extra details about the February 7 live performance, and tickets, [HERE].
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