Festival Monteverdi Vivaldi 2016 "Vivaldi, the man under the wig"

From August to October, from the palaces on the Canal Grande to the villas along the Riveria del Brenta, the Festival Monteverdi Vivaldi becomes metropolitan. A journey through music, art and architecture, to discover the eighteenth-century Venice. Some of the most beautiful palaces in Venice, the Teatro La Fenice and the nearby Ateneo Veneto will host events of the festival. And then there is the Brenta Canal with its villas as an ideal extension of the Canal Grande. The festival goes ashore to the mainland, among the beautiful frescoes of Villa Widmann Rezzonico Foscari in Mira and Villa Foscarini Rossi in Stra. The protagonist will be the music of an unexpected Antonio Vivaldi, without the wig. "To take the wig off" Antonio Vivaldi in Venice means revealing the man beneath the wig, presenting rarely performed pieces and arias and drawing parallels with other great composers of his era. Vivaldi without the wig is the true Vivaldi, who remains contamporary through the ages and who has been repeatedly reinterpreted and retranslated. In addition to the concerts there will be "the festival salon", a series of meetings with big names of the Baroque music scene as the mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux and the contralto Sara Mingardo.

Concerts

• Venice - Naples
  The apotheosis of music between hospitals and conservatories
  Giulia Bolcato, soprano - Nicola Lamon, harpsichord
  Saturday 27 august - 20.30 - UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy)
• The festival salon, a conversation with Vivica Genaux
  Tuesday 30 august - 18.30 - Ateneo Veneto
• Venetians in Würzburg
  The library of Count Rudolf Franz von Schönborn Erwein
  Federico Toffano, cello - Roberto Loreggian, harpsichord
  Friday 2 september - 20.30 - Palazzo Marin
• Senesino in Venice
  1714, the triumph of a star
  Rupert Enticknap, countertenor; Nicola Lamon, harpsichord
  Tuesday 6 september - 20.30 - Palazzo Pisani Moretta
• A tempestous lagoon of madness
  The rush of the arc and the beauty of the sound: La Scuola Veneta
  Contrarco Baroque Ensemble
  Tuesday 13 september - 20.30 - Palazzo Pisani Moretta
• Amor, io parto
  From the Lament of Ariadne by Monteverdi to Vivaldi's Fonti del pianto
  Lieselot De Wilde, soprano - Fabiano Merlante, theorbo - Olivier Lexa, artistic concept
  Tuesday 20 september - 20.30 - Teatro La Fenice
• The festival salon
  Presentation of the book La musique à Venise
  Friday 30 september - 18.30 - Casino Venier
• Heroes, nymphs, woods, shepherds
  On a summer night, the woodwinds give voice to the works of Vivaldi
  Gregorio Carraro, oboe, oboe d’amore, flute; Fabiano Merlante, archlute e theorbo
  Saturday 1 october - 20.30 - Villa Widmann Rezzonico (sala degli affreschi)
• Dreaming Venice
  Natalia Morozova, piano
  Wednesday 5 october - 20.30 - Palazzo Zeno
• The festival salon, a conversation with Sara Mingardo
  Friday 7 october - 18.30 - Ateneo Veneto
• Aldiviva Licante, the fashionable Vivaldi
  A duel between Benedetto Marcello and Antonio Vivaldi
  Carlotta Gomiero, soprano; Nicola Lamon, harpsichord
  Wednesday 12 october - 20.30 - Palazzo Contarini Polignac
• Vivaldi at the villa
  The most beautiful arias of the eighteenth-century Venice
  Aurelio Schiavoni, alto; Nicola Lamon, harpsichord
  Thursday 20 october - 20.30 - Villa Foscarini Rossi (Salone delle feste)