FULL The City of Ladies Lessines 2022 Servir Antico, Liselot de Wilde, Coline Dutilleul
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The City of Ladies
- Composer: various
- Libretto: VARIOUS Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Notre-Dame- à-la-rose, Lessines, Belgium, Early Music Vancouver
- Recorded: 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Liselot de Wilde, Coline Dutilleul
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Servir Antico
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Early Music Vancouver
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In this concert film, Servir Antico tell the story of Christine de Pizan (1364 – ca.1430), a revolutionary woman who questioned the treatment of women and their prescribed place and role in society in her magnum opus, The Book of the City of Ladies. Though it was heavily criticized at the time, the poet Martin Le Franc, unlike most other men, championed her cause and helped spread awareness of the importance of women as active and multifaceted citizens. The programme is in praise of womankind, with works from the Ars Subtilior, compositions by Baude Cordier and Soulage, and anonymous compositions alongside works by Binchois and Dufay. Catalina Vicens and Servir Antico present this exquisite concert, which was recorded in the medieval chapel of Notre-Dame- à-la-rose in Belgium.
PROGRAMME
Baude Cordier (fl. early 15th c.)
Belle, bonne, sage, plaisante et gente
Guillaume Dufay (1437-1474)
Ave regina caelorum
Solage (fl. late 14th c.)
Calextone qui fut dame terrouse
La vision de Platon
Text: Martin Le Franc (1410-1461 )
‘Le Champion des Dames’, 1441
Music: Michaël|le Grébil Liberg
Guillaume Dufay (1437-1474)
L’alta belleza tua, virtute, valore
La mode des Romains orguilleux
Text: Martin Le Franc (1410-1461 )
‘Le Champion des Dames’, 1441
Music: Michaël|le Grébil Liberg
Nicolas Grenon (ca. 1375 – 1456)
La plus belle et doulce figure
Ma mère: reine couronnée dès l’instant où elle fut née
Text: Christine de Pizan (1364-ca.1430) de ‘La Mutation de Fortune’, 1403
Musique: Michaël|le Grébil Liberg
Michaël|le Grébil Liberg (*1973)
Belle, l’an se renouvelle
Anonyme (mid 15th century)
Environ la Saint Valentin
Gilles Binchois (ca.1400-1460)
Anguished grief
Catalina Vicens (*1983)
Christine’s Lament
Text: Christine de Pizan, ‘Deuil angoisseux’ from ‘Hundred Ballads’
Mutation: Becoming a man
Text: Christine de Pizan, from ‘La Mutation de Fortune’, 1403
Music: Nolwenn Le Guern et Michaël|le Grébil Liberg
Anonymous (late 14th c.)
Lunne Plaine
Man and Woman: Joined in their diversity
Text: Martin Le Franc, de ‘Le Champion des Dames’, 1441
Music: Michaël|le Grébil Liberg
Johannes Ghiselin (fl. 1497-1507)
O florens rosa
Hayne van Ghizeghem (ca.1445 – 1476/97) / Bartolomo degli Organi (1474-1539)
De tous biens plaine