Early Music Day Concert

Early Music Day Concert in Malta, Music Malta, 21.03.2019 - 21.03.2019

Description:

On the 21st of March REMA - EEMN, the European Early Music Network, celebrates the European Day of Early Music.

The Monteverdi Project in Malta will join these celebrations and offers a programme of vocal secular music at St. Gregory Church in Zejtun.

The first part of this special concert will present Monteverdi madrigals and extracts from the opera l’Orfeo, followed by madrigals for 5 voices by Scarlatti. The second part covers vocal music by Giovanni Felice Sances, Bartolomeo Barbarino and Giovanni Ghizzolo.

The original print of ‘Il Terzo libro dei Madrigali et Arie’ (1613) by Giovanni Ghizzolo is conserved at the Mdina Archives in Malta. Most of these works will probably be staged for the first time in our modern age. Performed consecutively, these works form a kind of a ‘pasticcio’, telling fragments of a love story that can easily be understood by the audience.

Performing the Ghizzolo madrigals is a continuation of the rediscovery of the rich Maltese vocal repertoire which had resurfaced in 1968 and now kept at the Mdina Archives. This rediscovery started in 2017 with the music of Benigno Zerafa and followed by compositions of Michel Angelo Falusi, Carlo Tassoni, Isabella Leonarda, Giovanni Battista Vitali and many others.

For this important occasion the Monteverdi Project will receive Simone Vallerotonda as guest artist. Mr. Vallerotonda is a young and internationally acclaimed theorbo soloist. He will perform on a recently acquired instrument by Teatru Manoel.

Conductor: Marco Mencoboni, director of the Monteverdi Project
Theorbo: Simone Vallerotonda

Vocalists:
Sopranos:
Gillian Zammit
Andriana Yordanova
Francesca Aquiina
Alison Gatt
Maria Cuschieri

Altos:
Cathy Lawlor
Francesca Buhagiar
Marie-Claire Gatt

Tenors:
Stanley Joe Portelli
Tom Armitage

Basses:
Joseph Lia
Mark Bartolo

The concert is supported thanks to LR 11/2009 of the Marche Region (Italy).

The Monteverdi Project was devised by Kenneth Zammit Tabona, the artistic director of Teatru Manoel and the Valletta International Baroque Festival. He engaged Maestro Marco Mencoboni, who is considered to be one of the leading specialists of Baroque and Renaissance music, to run the project.

Since July 2017 he has been training a consort of singers monthly, selected through auditions, and the VIBE Valletta International Baroque Ensemble musicians on ensemble work and baroque vocal and musical techniques. The masterclasses focus on Claudio Monteverdi and contemporaries and will lead to two concerts.

The project is supported by Valletta 2018 Foundation and Anabalat Ltd. The ultimate aim of the project is to stage the three Monteverdi operas at Teatru Manoel through coproduction with other similar sized theatres.

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Event Details


Event Type:

Music

Location:


St Gregory's Church (Zejtun)
Triq San Girgor, Zejtun

Start Date:

21 March 2019

End Date:

21 March 2019

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Venue:


Venue:

St Gregory's Church (Zejtun)

Address:

Triq San Girgor

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Dates:


21
Mar
Early Music Day Concert
St Gregory's Church (Zejtun), Zejtun - Music
19:00