Programme

Antonio Caldara 1670–1736
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini 1710–91
Il pianto di Maria
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Concerto in C minor RV 153

Roberta Mameli, soprano
GIARDINO DI DELIZIE

Introduction 7.15pm: Anna Skorupska

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About the programme

Two women stand at the foot of the cross: the “sinner” Mary Magdalene, torn between her fear of damnation and her hope of redemption, and Jesus’s mother Mary, who rebels against God’s counsel because she has to see her son die. Two highly dramatic scenes from the Italian baroque by Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, performed by the entirely female baroque ensemble Giardino di Delizie from Rome and Italian soprano Roberta Mameli.