Event listing: Monteverdi, Opera & Beyond | Christ Church, Spitalfields | Thu 6 Jan 2011 at 19:00

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Christ Church, SpitalfieldsCommercial Street, London, Greater London, E1 6LY, United Kingdom

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Festival: Spitalfields Music Winter Festival

Programme

Caccini, Francesca (1587-1640)	Euridice: Non piango e non sospiro
Peri, Jacopo (1561-1633)	Euridice: Non piango e non sospiro
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)	L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318: Act V
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)	L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318: Tu se'morta
Lanier, Nicholas (1588-1666)	Hero and Leander
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	If music be the food of love, Z 379
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)	Not all my torments can your pity move, Z 400
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (1643-1704)	Airs sur Les Stances du Cid

Performers

Paul Agnew	Tenor
Mahan Esfahani	Harpsichord
David Miller	Lute
Jonathan Manson	Viola da Gamba

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Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

Nahoko Gotoh, 8th January

Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.

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