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CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

L'Arpeggiata

La lyra d'Orfeo
Friday, October 6, 2017 7:30 PM Zankel Hall
Christina Pluhar by Marco Borggreve
Luigi Rossi was one of the shining lights of 17th-century Italian vocal music. A master of the canzonetta (a type of popular song) and cantata, Rossi also composed operas—L’Orfeo was one of his most successful—for both the Papal family and the French court. Extremely versatile, Rossi juxtaposed styles within a single work, often shifting from intense recitative to mellifluous song, while also venturing into daring harmonic regions. L’Arpeggiata—the “superb early music ensemble with a quirky sensibility” (The New York Times)—performs this supremely inventive composer’s vocal music.

Performers

L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar, Theorbo and Artistic Director
Céline Scheen, Soprano
Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

ROSSI Sinfonia from Il palazzo incantato

ROSSI "Vaghi rivi" from Il palazzo incantato

ROSSI "Begl'occhi, che dite"

ROSSI "Dove mi spingi, Amor?" from Il palazzo incantato

ROSSI "Gelosia ch'a poco a poco"

CAZZATI Ciaccona from Trattenimento per camera d’arie, correnti, e balletti

ROSSI "Mio ben" from Orfeo

ROSSI "Al imperio d’amore" from Orfeo

ROSSI "Questo picciolo rio"

L. ALLEGRI Canario from Il primo libro delle musiche

ROSSI "Dormite, begl’occhi" from Orfeo

ROSSI "Sol per breve momento" from Il palazzo incantato

ROSSI "Se dolente e flebil cetra"

ROSSI "La bella più bella"

ROSSI Ballo from Il palazzo incantato

ROSSI "Al soave spirar d'aure serene"

ROSSI "Lasciate Averno" from Orfeo

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes with no intermission.

Pre-Concert Talk

Pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 PM in Zankel Hall with Christina Pluhar, Artistic Director of L'Arpeggiata, in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.

At a Glance

The composer of some 300 richly expressive chamber cantatas and lightweight canzonettas, Luigi Rossi left his mark on the world of opera with a pair of ambitious musical dramas. Both date from the 1640s, when the newish art form of opera was just beginning its migration from the aristocratic salon to the public theater. Il palazzo incantato, based on Ariosto’s popular epic Orlando furioso, was commissioned by an opera-loving member of the papal family in Rome. Orfeo, an elaborately plotted retelling of the mythical romance of Orpheus and Eurydice, was written in Paris at the behest of Cardinal Mazarin, the powerful chief minister of the underaged Louis XIV.

L’Arpeggiata’s program intersperses excerpts from Rossi’s two operas with a sampling of his exquisitely crafted vocal chamber music and short instrumental pieces by three other Italian composers active in the mid–17th century. Although somewhat overlooked today, Rossi was both lionized and imitated by his contemporaries. After his death in 1653, the Bolognese composer Giacomo Antonio Perti placed him alongside Antonio Cesti and Giacomo Carissimi as one of the “three greatest lights of our profession.”

Bios

L'Arpeggiata

Founded in 2000 by Artistic Director Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata is composed of some of today’s finest soloists who work in collaboration with the most exceptional singers ...
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Céline Scheen

Céline Scheen completed her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Vera Rózsa. She has since performed in the greatest festivals and concert halls ...

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Giuseppina Bridelli

Born in Italy, Giuseppina Bridelli started singing at a very young age at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Nicolini in Piacenza, where she was taught by Maria Laura Groppi. In 2007, she won ...

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Christina Pluhar

Christina Pluhar, founder and artistic director of the L’Arpeggiata, discovered her deep affinity with Renaissance and Baroque music after studying classical guitar at the University ...

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