Extra concert New Year's Eve: Alla Napoletana

In the 17th century Naples was considered the capital of music and the cradle of opera and commedia dell'arte. Out of the prestigious Neapolitan conservatories emerged outstanding musicians and composers, as well as the famous castrati.

L'Arpeggiata presents early Baroque vocal music and Neapolitan folk tunes in a musical journey through the seicento napoletano: two pazzi, driven mad by love, lament their lovesickness from the "hospital for the lovelorn"; in the Gulf of Naples, a war breaks out between the small and big fish because the unfaithful anchovy has fallen in love anew; at the cradle of the bambin giesù and in the streets of Naples, fiery tarantellas resound, and in the palaces, virtuoso arias.

Performers:
Ensemble L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, theorbo and conductor
Céline Scheen, soprano
Vincenzo Capezzuto, alto
Anna Dego, dance

A surprising program, as diverse, lively and colorful as the city on Vesuvius: tarantellas, follies, cantatas, dances and canzoni Napoletane by Andrea Falconieri, Cristoforo Caresana, Pietro Antonio Giramo and Luigi Rossi.

Program and instrumentation subject to change.


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