Details

New College Chapel
Holywell Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3BN
England

Monday 16th February 2026
8:45 PM

Programme

Francesco Cavalli – Artemisia: Sinfonia
Francesco Cavalli – Il rapimento d'Elena: 'Mia speranza'
Pietro Andrea Ziani – Fortune di Rodope e Damira: 'Rodope, dove sei?'
Giovanni Legrenzi – Sarabande in G, Op.4
Francesco Lucio – Medoro: 'Donne belle e vezzose'
Francesco Cavalli – Orimonte: 'Torindo, ove s'in via?'
Giovanni Legrenzi – Sarabande in D, Op.4
Francesco Cavalli – Eritrea: 'Dolce Frode'
Francesco Cavalli – Se la giu negli abissi, cantata
Francesco Cavalli – Erismena: 'Ahi, questo e'l fine amaro'
Barbara Strozzi – Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op.2: 'L'eraclito amoroso'
Francesco Lucio – Medoro: 'Da amorose passione'
Francesco Cavalli – Artemisia: 'Aure Tacete'

Performers

Camilla Seale – mezzo-soprano
Tristram Cooke – countertenor

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

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Programme Note

Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice's public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years. Using surviving payment records from venetian theatres, Mezzo Camilla Seale and countertenor Tristram Cooke will be accompanied by an ensemble which matches a Venetian theatre band of the time as closely as possible, comprising two violins, bass viol, three theorbos, harpsichord and a pentagonal virginal.