Intermedi della Pellegrina

Intermedi della Pellegrina concert. Music by Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio, Giulio Caccini, Count Giovanni de’ Bardi, Jacopo Peri, and Emilio de’ Cavalieri. Texts by Giovanni de’ Bardi, Ottavio Rinuccini; Giovanni Battista Strozzi, and Laura Lucchesini. Directed 2019 by Valentino Villa at the Festival del Maggio Musicale. Features singers Rossana Bertini (Soprano I), Elena Bertuzzi (Soprano II), Candida Guida (Alto), Paolo Fanciullacci (Tenor), Marco Scavazza (Baritone), and Mauro Borgioni (Bass). Features extras Greta Cisternino, Barbara Novati, Marco Angelilli, Edoardo Mozzanega, Francesco Napoli, and Giuseppe Sartori. Frederico Maria Sardelli conducts the Orchestra Modo Antiquo, the Coro Ricercare Ensemble, and the Compagnia Dramatodia (Chorus Master Alberto Allegrezza). Set design by Saverio Santoliquido; lighting design by Alessandro Tutini; costume design by Gianluca Sbicca; choreography and assistant direction by Marco Angelilli and the Bandierai degli Uffizi. Directed for TV by Tiziano Mancini. Released 2020, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Sung in Italian. Grade: NA

Intermedi della pellegrina would translate to Interludes of the Pilgrim Woman. We don’t know if it has some other name in English.

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