Organization

Conductor

Étienne Meyer

Singer

Soprano

Capucine Keller

Anne Magouët

Dagmar Saskova

Tenor

Vincent Bouchot

François-Nicolas Geslot

Bass

Renaud Delaigue

Alejandro Meerapfel

Opéra de Dijon

Étienne Meyer The Baroque Crossings

Dijon

France

Auditorium

Public

Private

Concert

Approved

All the abundance and over-expressiveness of Counter-Reformation Rome shines in this range of madrigals in which the music pays homage to the art of oratory.

Virgil, Le Tasse, Petrarch: it was as a lover of poetry and language that Domenico Mazzochi (1582-1665), a brilliant contributor to the development of Italian opera, created his madrigals. A wealthy gentleman, protected by patrician families, this dilettante of genius perpetuated the spirit of Caccini and Monteverdi by introducing remarkable innovations in dynamic precision, expressiveness and nuance. The subtlety of the vocal balance, required in such a repertoire, is enhanced by the sound of the flutes, the cornet, the bassoon and the theorbo: homage of the music to the "words", and to the Roman civilization of the 17th century . century.

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