In 1599, the young Thomas Dallam hurriedly set out on a journey into the unknown, delivering a church organ to the sultan Mehmet III as a gift from Queen Elizabeth I. Leaving from London and headed for Istanbul, East and West are brought together through the accounts of their journeys…
L’Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio that was originally written for Antonio Caldara’s 1733 opera. Following Caldara’s success, more than 60 baroque and classical composers used the libretto in their own renditions. Enjoy this opera at the Athens Concert Hall on March 4. The popularity of Caldara’s opera certainly gave Metastasio’s…
Benedetto Marcello: Cassandra Latinitas Nostra, Markellos Chrysikopoulos Vasistas Ioanna Forti as Cassandra Performed in Music in Rhodes Festival
Conducted by Markellos ChrysikopoulosDirected by Apostolia Papadimaki Sets – Costumes Katerina – Christina Manolakou Lighting Philipos Koutsaftis Latinitas Nostra Baroque Ensemble Monteverdi’s last and most important work is as human as it is ground-breaking. Thanks to an innovative libretto which takes liberties with its material, and a score which combines the moving with the sensual and…
A year on from A voyage into the Levant, which brought together the work of John Dowland and Ottoman music, Latinitas Nostra return to the OCC to perform “…for I will soon be laid in the earth…”, a musical journey which provides a bridge connecting Louis XIV’s Chapelle Royale with the hashish and bouzouki joints…
Nikos Karathanos – Markellos Chryssikopoulos Salomé 29-30 June & 1-2 July A baroque drama, expertly performed by talented artists Nikos Karathanos and Markellos Chryssikopoulos, based on an erotic oratorio by Alessandro Stradella, combining baroque and oriental instrumentation by the Latinitas Nostra music ensemble. “Considering baroque a melting pot where all contradictory concepts blend (the low…
A hymn to the Olympic spirit, noble friendship and adoring devotion, Pietro Metastasio’s libretto for L’Olimpiade proved something of a goldmine for the 18th-century theatrical scene, notching up a grand total of 50 complete ‘remakes’ and hundreds of partial musical settings.
