Programmes - Choreographed - A Venetian Carnival
(To create the essence of the show we bring simple props, scenery and lighting)
| Philippa Hyde | soprano |
| Paul Esswood | counter-tenor |
| Jennifer Janse | baroque cello |
| Helen Rogers | harpsichord and chamber organ |
Venice spirals towards her fall in a whirl of treachery, lust and exuberance.
The Musicke Companye presents a musical tale of La Serenissima: rapturous music from St Mark's, the mists of the lagoon, the wedding of the Doge to the Sea and the revelries and gaiety of Carnivale. Choreographed scenes, authentic Venetian masks, stories of courtesans, lovers, nuns, intrigue and murder.
Diaries, letters and words from John Evelyn, John Ruskin, Dr Charles Burney, Charles de Brosses, Wiliam Beckford and Jennifer Janse. Music by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Marcello, Lotti, Stradella, Galuppi, Cavalli and Handel alongside the incomparable Red Priest, Antonio Vivaldi.
| Barbara Strozzi | Pietro Francesco Cavalli | |
| Song 'Moralita Amorosa' | Duet 'O Bone Jesu' | |
| Song 'Tradimento' | ||
| Claudio Monteverdi | ||
| Claudio Monteverdi | Song 'Maledetto sia l'aspetto' | |
| Duet 'Sancta Maria' | ||
| Song 'Jubilet' | Barbara Strozzi | |
| Song 'Ego flos campi' | Duet 'Che dolce udire' | |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Baldassare Galuppi | |
| Cello sonata in A minor | Harpsichord Sonata in Bb major | |
| Benedetto Marcello | Alessandro Stradella | |
| Cantata 'L'usignolo che il suo duolo' | Song 'Si salvi chi può' | |
| Antonio Lotti | George Frideric Handel | |
| Duet 'Querèla amorosa' | Aria 'Tacerò' | |
| INTERVAL | Claudio Monteverdi | |
| Duet 'Pur ti miro' |
