Musica Antica Rotherhithe, Oliver Doyle, director

La Decima Musa, or The Tenth Muse: Music from the Golden Age of Venetian Opera, 1650-1660

Francesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676)
Cantata: Se la giù negl’abissi
Torindo, ove s’in via, Orimonte (1650)
Dolce Frode, Eritrea (1652)
Menfi, mia patria, Statira (1656)
Ecco l’idolo mio,  Elena (1659)

Barbara Strozzi (1619 -1677)
Sul Rodano severo, (Cantate, ariette, e duetti, 1651)

Francesco Lucio (1628 – 1658)
From Medoro (1658)
Donne belle e vezzose
Medoro, e dove sei

Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 – 1684)
from Le Fortune di Rodope e Damira (1657)
Rodope, dove sei
Marmi spietati

Musica Antica Rotherhithe give their first concert for MUSICON, presenting cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.

Mezzo-soprano Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke have used evidence from surviving payment records from Venetian theatres to create an ensemble that matches the theatre bands of the time, comprising two violins, bass viol, two theorbos, harpsichord and a pentagonal virginal.

Tickets: £10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s