A COUR: AYRES DE COUR DES GRANDS MAITRES DE LA TRAGEDIE LYRIQUE at NYU Casa Italiana Photo
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- December 23, 2019
Mired in decadence and shrouded in subtlety, French court culture found no better expression than the intimate, sensual, and seductively nuanced Air de Cour. Yet, at the apex of the Ancien Régime, Bon-Goût tangles with Sprezzatura, as a Mazarin Italian import and Tuscan peasant's son becomes 'Surintendant de la Musique du Roi.' The monumental Tragédie Lyrique and the Comédie-Ballet of Jean Baptiste Lully, né Giovanni Battista Lulli, gradually eclipse the Air de Cour, as a glittering age hungry f...
Salon/Sanctuary Concerts to Present CARTHAGE CONQUER'D Photo
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- November 15, 2019
Their fall season closes with music of Cavalli, Couperin, DeVisée, Legrenzi, Montéclair, and Purcell, in alternation with traditional North African Taksim improvisations in this original program previously presented by the Sorbonne and NYU Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy. ...
Ensemble Ricercare Antico With Tenor Riccardo Pisani Performs Caccini Program In The Photo
by Stephi Wild
- September 26, 2018
From Palazzo Bardi, where the Florentine Camerata met and conjured the new form of opera, where this program was previously presented on the Salon/Sanctuary Florence series, a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Giulio Caccini, founding member of the Camerata and one of the first composers of opera, comes to New York, performed by a Roman and Florentine ensemble....