In synergy with the Collegio San Carlo Foundation, which celebrates 400 years since its birth, Grandezze & Meraviglie welcomes into its calendar the Special Project FUS (Fondo Unico per lo Spettacolo – MiC) extra Festival “Modena Capitale dell’Oratorio Musicale”.
In memory of the common matrix that gave life to the ancient College of Nobles of San Carlo and the Oratory of San Carlino Rotondo, the privileged venue for the performance of oratories, the Festival will bring to light the rich tradition of the Sacred Oratory of Modena in the seventeenth century. The culmination will be the revival of L’Innocenza di Pietro degli Antonii, the only surviving oratorio by this composer, which will be held on Thursday 4 December at the Church of San Carlo in Modena. The project will be accompanied by a series of conferences at the Collegio San Carlo that will explore the form of the oratorio, the Modena case and the architecture of the performance venues of this musical genre.
The Events:
Monday 1st december h. 6 PM
Fondazione Collegio San Carlo’s based
L’ORATORIO MUSICALE NEL ‘600
Forma, struttura e fortuna
Institutional greetings (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo)
with Piero Mioli (Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna)
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Even today “oratorio” can mean a place of prayer, a place to pray. In the century of its birth, the container became the content: “oratorio” was what was sung there praying. Who didn’t compose oratorios in the seventeenth century, between Rome and Naples, between Bologna and Modena? First in Latin, then in Italian, on the theme of some biblical episode or of this or that saint.
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Thursday 4th december h. 6 PM
Fondazione Collegio San Carlo’s based
L’ORATORIO A MODENA
L’Innocenza di Pietro degli Antonii
Greetings by Chiara Albonico (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo)
with Teresa Maria Gialdroni (UniRoma2), Matteo Giannelli (Sorbonne Université)
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Thanks to the patronage of Francesco II d’Este (1660-1694), Modena became a leading center for the performance of oratorios. During the conference, the repertoires, the musicians involved and the methods of performing the oratorios in the Modena of Francesco II d’Este will be presented.
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Thursday 4th december
Chiesa di San Carlo h. 8.30 PM
free entry WITH INVITATION
L’INNOCENZA
ORATORIO DI PIETRO DEGLI ANTONII
SULLA DEPOSIZIONE DI CRISTO DALLA CROCE
Original title “L’innocenza depressa – Oratorio à sei con Stromenti”
(Modena, San Carlo Rotondo, 1686)
Modena’s first musical performance
VIRGIN MARY Monica Piccinini soprano
MAGDALENE Marta Fumagalli mezzosoprano
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST Valentina Ferrarese contralto
NICODEMO Alberto Allegrezza tenore
GIOSEFFO ABARIMATIA Marco Saccardin basso
ANGEL Benedetta Zanotto soprano
COMPAGNIA DE VIOLINI
Davide Medas violin II
Domenico Scicchitano alto viola
Francesca Camagni viola tenor
Giulia Gillio Gianetta cello
Patxi Montero doble bass
Franco Pavan theorbo
Francesco Monica organ
FRANCESCO BARONI harpsichord
ALESSANDRO CICCOLINI violin and conduction
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The only survivor among the oratorios composed by Pietro Degli Antonii, L’Innocenza depressa was composed and performed for Duke Francesco II D’Este in 1686, at the oratory of San Carlino Rotondo, a sacred building attached to the complex of the church of San Vincenzo. L’Innocenza was highly appreciated by the latter, so much so that the duke was the dedicatee of the Opera Quinta, an instrumental collection by Degli Antonii, printed in Bologna in the same 1686. The consideration of a patron of the caliber of Francesco II D’Este, an eclectic figure and in contact with the major composers of the time, makes Degli Antonii’s work noteworthy. A careful study of the manuscript and the libretto, both preserved in the Estense Library in Modena, highlights the valuable characteristics and great uniqueness of this Oratory.
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Thursday 11th december h. 6 PM
Fondazione Collegio San Carlo’s based
ARCHITETTURA E MUSICA A MODENA TRA ‘600 E ‘700
Il caso dell’oratori di San Carlo Rotondo
Greetings by Chiara Albonico (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo)
with Vincenzo Vandelli and Alessandro Bortolani
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From the mid-seventeenth century Modena underwent a profound urban and architectural transformation aimed at defining the capital of the Duchy. It is precisely in this period that we witness with Duke Francesco I d’Este a fundamental distinction between the figures involved in this process. The two figures of architect and court engineer will become of first importance in the assignment of the various tasks relating to the design and management of the large construction sites of the capital city, as well as being an attempt to form a “school” at the service of the court.
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