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 Maria Ferrandini’s moving cantata Il pianto di Maria. But also as in the first names of three exceptional 18th-century female composers who left their mark in opera – Grimani, Walpurgis and Agnesi – the latter also offering us a harpsichord concerto. 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 Teresa Agnesi, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Maria Margherita Grimani, Antonio Vivaldi and Maria Antonia Walpurgis
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 Maria Ferrandini’s moving cantata Il pianto di Maria. But also as in the first names of three exceptional 18th-century female composers who left their mark in opera – Grimani, Walpurgis and Agnesi – the latter also offering us a harpsichord concerto. 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 Teresa Agnesi, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Maria Margherita Grimani, Antonio Vivaldi and Maria Antonia Walpurgis
