La Decima Musa, Edinburgh: Music from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera 1650-1660

Musica Antica Rotherhithe present music by Francesco Cavalli, Barbara Strozzi, Francesco Lucio, P.A. Ziani and Giovanni Legrenzi - much of it unheard since the 1650's - using the surviving payment records of a seventeenth-century venetian impresario to reconstruct the band you would have seen in a venetian theatre pit 370 years ago.
For this performance, we will be using two original keyboard instruments from the University of Edinburgh's keyboard collection: a harpsichord by Bernardo Trasuntino (built in 1574) and virginal attributed to Francesco Poggio (c. 1620).
Programme
Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676):
Cantata: Se la giù negl'abissi
Torindo, ove s'in via, from Orimonte (1650)
Dolce Frode, from Eritrea (1652)
Barbara Strozzi (1619 -1677):
Eraclito Amoroso Cantate, ariette, e duetti (1651)
Francesco Lucio (1628 - 1658):
Donne belle e vezzose from Medoro (1658)
Da amorose passioni from Medoro (1658)
Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 - 1684):
Rodope, dove sei, from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)

Performers
Mezzo: Camilla Seale
Countertenor: Tristram Cooke
Violin: Andrew Taheny & Sophia Mücke
Bass viol: Harry Buckoke
Theorbo: Jonatan Bougt & Peter Martin
Keyboards: Luke Mitchell & Oliver Doyle
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Continuo Foundation and Cavalli Charity.
Tickets (£5-£15) via the Edinburgh Fringe website.