Is PUCCINI baroque? - Istante Collective, Davide Basso & Mariana Rodriguez

Friday 29th November 7.30pm

ITALIAN SOUNDS IN LONDON 2024

‘Tell me the truth about love’

Is Puccini baroque?

Join us for the third concert of Italian sounds in London, marking 100 years since Puccini's death. But we couldn't resist stretching, turning upside down and looking for quirky corners in his music. Puccini is probably one of the composers whose melodies are part of everyone's unconscious musical awareness. Most, if not all, are about love. We have stepped back in time to look at how musicians through the centuries have expressed the same 'passion for love', and no way better than to look through the lens of the most common and universal musical forms : the song.

Despite the hundreds of years in between, we will look at and experience how Monteverdi, Purcell, Dowland and Strozzi's songs are very much connected to Puccini's memorable melodies.Featuring the wonderful tenor Davide Basso and soprano Mariana Rodriguez, alongside with pianist Panaretos Kyriatzidis and Istante Collective and of course not without the homemade focaccia, biscuits and drinks!

ISTANTE COLLECTIVE ,  Davide Basso - Tenor & Mariana Rodriguez - soprano

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G.Puccini - Che gelida manina (Bohème),  Nessun dorma (Turandot)

Recondita armonia (Tosca),  E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) , Ch'ella mi creda (La fanciulla del west)

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C.Monteverdi - Voglio di Vita uscir

Barbara Strozzi - L’Eraclito Amoroso

Dowland - Come again

H.Purcell - Music for a While

ISTANTE COLLECTIVE 

Davide Basso - tenore || Mariana Rodriguez - soprano

Panaretos Kyriatzidis - piano || Nicola Barbagli - oboe & accordion 

Rebecca Harris - violino || Johan Lofving - theorbo


# homemade Italian focaccia and drinks available during the interval !! #