Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
| Thursday 18 March 2027 | 19:30 |
Programme
| Perti, Giacomo Antonio (1661-1756) | Oratorio della Passione | |
| Rossi, Luigi (1597-1653) | Oratorio per la Settimana Santa |
Performers
| Les Arts Florissants | |
| William Christie | Conductor, Harpsichord, Organ |
| Lucía Martín-Cartón | Soprano |
| Ana Quintans | Soprano |
| Théo Imart | Countertenor |
| Jacob Lawrence | Tenor |
| Giacomo Nanni | Bass |
| Luigi De Donato | Bass |
William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants, the ensemble he founded in 1979, in two works for Holy Week. Giacomo Antonio Perti, born in Bologna in 1661, was in his late teens when he composed the first of his many oratorios. Oratorio della Passione, created in 1685 and revised several times thereafter, paints a vivid, deeply moving portrait of the scene at Jesus’s tomb, while Luigi Rossi’s Oratorio per la Settimana Santa is a dramatic blend of recitative, instrumental interludes and choral numbers that projects the Passion story’s overwhelming human emotions.
Tickets: £60 £53 £43 £33 £18
