LE POÈME HARMONIQUE: VENEZIA
Saturday, March 9, 2013; 8:00 PM
Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
Works of Claudio Monteverdi, Biagio Marini, Francesco Manelli and Benedetto Ferrari
In its Houston debut, the award-winning early music group from France performs music from themelting pot of 17th-century Venice. Semi-staged in candlelight, the program is a celebration of Venice in the Golden Age, when art music and popular forms came together and mingled, before emotion and language were restrained by rules and codes.
“a program that touches heart and soul alike” – Classica
"People listened attentively, laughed out loud during raucous songs and cheered the excellent performers at the end of the 90-minute program...After the program concluded with a beguiling account of a Manelli lament, the audience broke into a sustained ovation. When the group repeated Monteverdi’s 'Lamento Della Ninfa' as an encore (the first of two), it was like hearing an old favorite." -- New York Times
“This is total art, refined in the extreme, and wonderfully alive.” – Le Monde
Presented in collaboration with Houston Early Music. A TEXAS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL (March 8-10) Event.
Click here for more information about a festival pass for Venezia, Ars Lyrica's Acis and Galatea and Mercury's Stabat Mater. Get the best available seats for all three concerts for $90. Or upgrade from one concert to all three for $60.
Click here for more information about a festival pass for Venezia, Ars Lyrica's Acis and Galatea and Mercury's Stabat Mater. Get the best available seats for all three concerts for $90. Or upgrade from one concert to all three for $60.
