Musica Antica Rotherhithe: La Decima Musa or The Tenth Muse

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

Music from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660. Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.

Using surviving payment records from Venetian theatres as inspiration, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by an ensemble which matches a Venetian theatre band: comprising two violins, bass viol, two theorbos, harpsichord and a pentagonal virginal.

Programme

Cavalli: Sinfonia from Artemisia - Legrenzi Sarabande III op. 4 - Sinfonia from Artemisia, D minor

Cavalli: Mia Speranza from Elena

P.A Ziani: Rodope, Dove sei from Le Fortune di Rodope

Cavalli: Torindo, ove s'in via from Orimonte

Legrenzi: Sarabande I from Op. 4, D major

Lucio: Donne belle e vezzose from Medoro

Cavalli: Se la giu negli abissi

Cavalli: Dolce Frode from Eritrea

Cavalli: Ahi, questo e'l fin amano from Erismena

Strozzi: Eraclito Amoroso

Lucio: Da amorose passione from Medoro

Cavalli: Aure Tacete from Artemisia