FULL Vespro della Beata Vergine Paris 2009 Sylvia Schwartz, Tilman Lichdi, Valerie Gabail, Marie Kalinine
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Vespro della Beata Vergine da concerto composta sopra canti firmi
- Composer: Monteverdi Claudio
- Libretto: compiled from several Latin Biblical and liturgical texts Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
- Recorded: 2009
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sylvia Schwartz, Tilman Lichdi, Valerie Gabail, Marie Kalinine, Florin Cezar Ouato, John McVeigh, Luigi De Donato, Nicolas Testé
- Conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
- Orchestra: Ensemble Matheus
- Chorus: Choeur Tantrique Tibetain Phurpa
- Chorus Master: Gildas Pungier
- Stage Director: Oleg Kulik
- Stage Designer: Denis Kryuchkov
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: VIMEO FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Staged performance
Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs, and orchestra. It is an ambitious work in scope and in its variety of style and scoring, and has a duration of around 90 minutes. Published in Venice (with a dedication to Pope Paul V dated 1 September 1610) as Sanctissimae Virgini Missa senis vocibus ac Vesperae pluribus decantandae, cum nonnullis sacris concentibus, ad Sacella sive Principum Cubicula accommodata (“Mass for the Most Holy Virgin for six voices, and Vespers for several voices with some sacred songs, suitable for chapels and ducal chambers”), it is sometimes called Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610.