« Chroniques vénitiennes »

Between the Campanile of St. Mark’s Square, the canals, the gondoliers and the backstage of the opera in the Venice of the 17th and 18th centuries, the baroque ensemble La Livri invites the public to be drawn into three paintings by the tasty stories of Benedetto Marcello, Giacomo Casanova and Charles Burney, malicious observers of musical life on the edges.

The stories are accompanied by works by Vivaldi, Handel, Tartini, Marcello, Albinoni, and many other composers, also unpublished music by gondoliers in the ancient Venetian language.

This imaginary journey ends in an opera hall, where the narrator paints picturesque and stripping portraits of the protagonists of the Venetian opera written by Marcello (the theatre director, the singer, the singer, the mother of the diva...).

Baroque Ensemble La Livri:

- Nihel ZOUBEIDI, soprano

- Ruben BISSOLI, countertenor

- Patrick FARGES, tenor and recorder

- Franz LAVRUT, bass

- Naoko CALLET-NAKATANI: violin

- Pierre SLIOSBERG: recorder, traverso

- Hakim MIOUDI: harpsichord

- Florence MARTIN: violin, double bass

- Cécile BITAN: reciting.