April 30 & May 1
Venezia Stravangatissima - Musical Innovation from the Floating City
[Monteverdi] served this Most Serene Dominion [i.e. Venice] with a happy spirit, being accustomed to say that to arrive at the true and entire perfection of the discipline of music, heaven could not put him in a place where things were more harmonious, considering that this aristocratic government of this Most Serene Republic represents precisely that harmony which those schools of philosophy deem caused by the unceasing movement of those celestial rotations which – their intelligence has it – perpetually rotating with incomplete harmony encircle this inferior globe, the place of us mortals.”
-Matteo Caberloti, Laconismo delle alte qualità di Claudio Monteverdi (1644)
Fourth Mainstage Concert
Music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. Step into the vibrant world of early 17th-century Venice with Venezia Stravagantissima, a time when the new musical language of the Baroque replaced the old one of the Renaissance. Composers such as Monteverdi, Castello and Fontana were pioneering new musical innovations, creating music that stirred the passions, lifted the soul, and emotionally engaged the listener like never before. Experience the groundbreaking music, as we bring to life the daring and inventive spirit of the floating city’s golden age.
Performance Times:
Friday, April 30 @ 7:30- 9:30 p.m. at Mount Olive Lutheran Church (2830 18th Ave NW, Rochester, MN 55901)
Saturday, May 1 @ 7:30- 9:30 p.m. at Sundin Music Hall (1531 Hewitt Ave, St Paul, MN 55104)