Stabat Mater

Submitted by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). Stabat Mater Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Le Stabat de Pergolèse or the lamentation of the pain of the most famous Virgin of the Baroque repertoire. Distribution Nina Spinosi sopranoMarie-Nicole Lemieux contralto Ensemble MatheusJean-Christophe Spinosi direction Programme En first part of programVivaldi Laudate pueri Dominum RV 600 Scarlatti Salve Regina En some words Written in Italy in the thirteenth century, The Stabat Mater is one of the most famous sequences of the Catholic liturgy. This long poem in Latin of sixty verses describes the suffering of the Virgin at the foot of the cross, where she sees her son die. From the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, composers set this moving text to music. But it was in the Baroque period that the figure of the Virgin was an even more important object of devotion and from then on, the Stabat Mater became an essential figure of sacred music. The most famous remains that of Pergolese, composer who disappeared at the age of 26, which gave rise to the birth of a legend comparable to that of the Requiem de Mozart. Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées