Intermedi della pellegrina: Firenze 1589 [Blu-ray]

6 вокально-инструментальных интермедий к пьесе "Паломница", поставленной на торжествах к свадьбе Фердинандо де Медичи и Кристины де Лоррен в 1589 году.

Primo Intermedio: The Harmony of the Spheres (1-я интермедия - "Гармония сфер")
Secondo Intermedio: The Muses defeat the Pierides in a singing contest (2-я интермедия - "Музы побеждают Пиерид (9 дочерей короля Пиероса) в певческом состязании")
Terzo Intermedio: Apollo slays the Python at Delphi (3-я интермедия - "Аполлон убивает Пифона в Дельфах")
Quarto Intermedio: The Golden Age is foretold (4-я интермедия - "Предсказание Золотого века")
Quinto Intermedio: Arion and the Dolphin (5-я интермедия - "Арион и дельфин")
Sesto Intermedio: The Gift of Harmony and Rhythm to Mankind (6-я интермедия - "Дар Гармонии и Ритма человечеству"

Florence, May 2nd, 1589: on occasion of the wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I and Christina of Lorraine an impressive celebration apparatus was put up to display the magnificence of the Medici household. Behind this official event lay an ambitious project which involved an incredible team of the most important poets and musicians of the time, such as Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio, Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, Emilio De Cavalieri as well as Count Giovanni De Bardi, who was engaged to compose the Intermedi for Girolamo Bargaglis play La Pellegrina. Renaissance intermediums were sumptuous musical interludes inserted between the acts of a theatrical show on allegorical and moral themes with eclectic references to classical mythology. They are considered as the forerunners of musical opera. The spectacular show, which was performed using a complex stage machinery set up in Palazzo Pittis Boboli gardens, was an immediate success, so much that the intermediums were performed in the days to follow during another two plays.

The Six intermediums in La Pellegrina provide for choral madrigals, double and triple choirs, solo accompanied numbers and instrumental pieces, inserted into the impressive and sumptuous staging by Bernando Buontalenti. 430 years later, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in collaboration with Galleria Degli Uffizi produces the first staging in modern times of the Intermedi della Pellegrina through an itinerant show in Palazzo Pittis Boboli Gardens. Stage director Valentino Villas approach was to attempt at an ironic historical reconstruction, where imageries blur together, classical mythology is grafted onto contemporary iconography.

An itinerant show in the Boboli gardens, 16th-18th June 2019