Name: Sestina
Start: 2004-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2005-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De Velinx

Organization

Conductor

Jan Van Outryve

Stage director

Wouter Van Looy

Set designer

Hans Op de Beeck

Video designer

Costume designer

Machteld Van de Perre

Singer

Elise Caluwaerts

Soprano

Nora Tabbush

Elena Pozhidaeva

Alto

Immo Schröder

Tenor

Dick Vandaele

Jorge-Gaston Sister

Bass

Muziektheater Transparant

Sestina

Amsterdam

Netherlands

De Brakke Grond

Zwolle

Nederlands Kameropera Festival

Hasselt

Belgium

Cultuurcentrum

Turnhout

De Warande

Ghent

Flanders Festival

Tongeren

De Velinx

Sestina Monteverdi

Public

Approved

“Incinerated remains, greedy tomb,
Made from my beauteous sun and earthly heaven.“

With these words Claudio Monteverdi opens Sestina . The poet Scipione Agnelli wrote a text in memory of the late singer Catarina Martinelli. The six-part musical poem tells of a man's tears before the grave of his beloved. Monteverdi, who had recently lost his wife and his favorite soprano Martinelli, chose this poignant poem as the basis for his madrigal Sestina.
For this production, artists from different disciplines translate the moving power of this composition, together with the poem  Triumph of the Death  of Francesco Petrarca and other works by Monteverdi, into a contemporary setting. 
Sestina explores the possibilities of a spatial installation with video images, a soundscape and a live sung concert with music by Monteverdi. Against the background of the video images and soundscape, five young singers, supported by a lute and a gamba, talk about death and love

English

Nederlands

Sestina by Monteverdi, From (2004/2005), Directed by Wouter Van Looy,, Conductor Jan Van Outryve, De Velinx, Tongeren, Belgium

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