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The countertenor Philippe Jaroussky (awarded at the Victoires de la musique in 2004 and nominated several times since then), acclaimed on the greatest international stages, with Monteverdi’s Trilogy for instance, was the obvious choice to perform this programme dedicated to the Teatro d’amore. Christina Pluhar directs the “star” Philippe Jaroussky and the soprano Nuria Rial in their performing of Monteverdi who, during his whole life, fought to write a music touching the soul and the heart, obstinately refusing to work on subjects that weren’t attached to human nature. Christina Pluhar, director and conductor of the vocal and instrumental group L’Arpeggiata, whose first aim is to explore the rich music of the Italian baroque repertoire, has drawn from the greatest scores of the master of Italian music in order to restore this Teatro d’amore. In this theatre, Monteverdi travels through the map of love, adding instrumental pages proving that he was also the greatest composer of “pure” music of his time. At the hearing of the miraculous melodic beauty of Si dolce è’l tormento, the extraordinary tenderness of the Berceuse d’Arnalta (literally Lullaby of Arnalta) or the voluptuous loving contour of the final duet L’incoronazione de Poppea, it seems that no composer has ever surpassed Monteverdi in the exploration of human nature.

“Philippe Jaroussky: luminous timbre and solar musicality, refinement… It’s impossible to separate the angelical from the human, to distinguish what has been learned and what is innate, what belongs to art and what is an eruption in life… Like a Caravaggio painting.”
Le Monde de la Musique