Vivaldi, the golden age

Presentation

At the golden age of Itali­an music, Venice was a remark­able artist­ic labor­at­ory. Art music and pop­u­lar tra­di­tions, estab­lished prac­tices and bold new ideas came togeth­er, chal­lenged one anoth­er and fed off each oth­er.

Around Viv­aldi, Mari­anne Piketty and Le Con­cert Idéal bring this extraordin­ary music­al fer­ment back to life. From Vivaldi’s fever­ish vir­tu­os­ity to Ziani’s solem­nity, from Bar­bara Strozzi’s intens­ity to Turini’s dances, along­side Mon­teverdi, Albinoni and Gallo, cel­eb­rated, rare and some­times pre­vi­ously unheard works come togeth­er to cre­ate the son­ic mosa­ic of a Venice in the midst of inven­tion.

On stage, this Venice takes shape. Chiaroscuro, reflec­tions, move­ment, musi­cians appear­ing and dis­ap­pear­ing: Olivi­er Fourés’ sta­ging draws on the worlds of Vene­tian theatres, palaces, academies and car­ni­val, trans­form­ing the ensemble into a soci­ety in motion, shaped by con­trasts and meta­morph­oses.