|
|
(A court lady in love)
Subject by Orlando di Lasso and Massimo
Troiano
Münich 1568
"In the evening after dinner a commedia
all'improvviso was put on in an Italian manner...": with these
words Massimo Troiano, a Neapolitan musician and poet who served in
the Münich Ducal Cappella, introduces us to La Cortegiana innamorata
devised by Troiano himself togheter with Orlando di Lasso. The music
was chosen using the descriptions given by Troiano when he took an active
part in the theatrical-musical show togheter with Lasso himself, first
acting the roles of Polidoro and Captain Spagnuolo and
Lasso in that of Pantalone.
|
|
|
(How Pulcinella became a Musician)
Music in Naples in the XVIth century
The comic-character of Pulcinella is the perfect
synthesis of our show. It combines the playful theatrical attitude of
the setting with the execution of a vast repertoire of music from that
era, based on the typical forms which lead Naples to international fame:
villanelle and villotte, mascherate and canzoni
alla napolitana. A concert-show, therefore, of obvious Renaissance
inspiration in which music fuses with acting and the musicians with
the comedians.
|
|
|
(A concert at the home of Raffaello)
Music from the time of Pope Leone X
The show photographs, just like in a snap-shot, a moment
during the Renaissance period when in Rome, during only a very few years
(1513-1521), a high concentration of writers, poets, artists, architects
and musicians coming from all over Europe congregated. During the papacy
of Pope Leone X, a cultural explosion took place on a European scale, or
rather the birth of European culture, due to the interaction between artists
coming from many different countries: a phenomenon which was never repeated
again in history or at least not in such a concentrated way. |