SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS
This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works
Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
(90 min; 1990; dvd; English)
Live recording from the Basilico di San Marco, Venice
With Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennichhi (sopranos); Michael Chance (countertenor); Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia (tenors); and Bryn Terfel & Alastair Miles (basses)
The English Baroque Soloists
The Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque — at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. Monteverdi’s rarely performed 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin offers up a dizzying array of textures and sonorities in brilliant instrumental writing, opulent choruses, and moving solo arias and duets
