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Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdi's most extreme example of the baroque aesthetic in music, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda explores the mysterious connection perceived during the Renaissance between sexuality and death, lovemaking and war. In the spirit of Monteverdi's search for the shock of the new, the Metropolis Ensemble will present a semi-staged interpretation inspired by the composer's own written dramatic suggestions, performed with a modern instrumentation of accordion, guitar, synthesizer, and string ensemble.
- Canto XII
Testo: tratto dal GERUSALEMME LIBERATA di Torquato Tasso
Featured:
Thomas Glenn,
tenor
Melissa Fogarty, soprano
Daniel Neer,
baritone
Metropolis Ensemble:
Bill Schimmel, accordion
Daniel Lippel, guitar
Cristina Pato, keyboads
Sharon Roffman, Yonah Zur, violin
Entela Barci, viola
Amir Eldan, cello
Andrew Cyr, music director