In the Baroque period, opera and church music were actually strictly separated. However, compositions for the stage with new texts often found their way into sacred music with new texts. In a concert entitled Anamorfosi, which roughly translates as “transformation of form”, the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique undertakes a foray through 17th-century Italian music. The group, which delights audiences with its fresh, unconventional performance style, shows how close the supposedly different worlds of opera and the church can come in their expressive intensity.

Program

Anamorfosi - eine Reise durch das barocke Italien

Pieces by Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Mazzocchi and Luigi Rossi