We promise you as many tears of joy as of sadness, and sometimes both at the same time, in this program focused on the name Mary. Mary as in the mother of Christ at the foot of the cross in Giuseppe Battista Ferrandini’s moving cantata Il pianto di Maria. But also as in the first names of two exceptional 18th-century female composers who left their mark in opera – Grimani and Agnesi. For this program, Arion welcomes the contralto Anthea Pichanick, who is sure to enrapture you, and the conductor and harpsichordist Marie van Rhijn, whose flourishing career brings her to Montreal for the first time.
Works by Maria Margherita Grimani, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and Antonio Vivaldi.
We promise you as many tears of joy as of sadness, and sometimes both at the same time, in this program focused on the name Mary. Mary as in the mother of Christ at the foot of the cross in Giuseppe Battista Ferrandini’s moving cantata Il pianto di Maria. But also as in the first names of two exceptional 18th-century female composers who left their mark in opera – Grimani and Agnesi. For this program, Arion welcomes the contralto Anthea Pichanick, who is sure to enrapture you, and the conductor and harpsichordist Marie van Rhijn, whose flourishing career brings her to Montreal for the first time.
Works by Maria Margherita Grimani, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and Antonio Vivaldi.
