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Anna Prohaska © Marco Borggreve
Anna Prohaska © Marco Borggreve

Combattimento

Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw, Ian Bostridge + Anna Prohaska
Wed 10 Feb 2027 20:15 - 22:00
Wed 10 Feb 2027
20:15 - 22:00
  • Wed 10 Feb 2027
    20:15 - 22:00
    Grote Zaal
    From Tue 31 Mar 2026 12:00

Program

Claudio Monteverdi Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda 
And other compositions by, among others, Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo Gesualdo

Credits

Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw 
Richard Egarr conductor 
Anna Prohaska soprano 
Ian Bostridge tenor 
Sommer Ulrickson stage direction, choreography 

Gesualdo and Monteverdi in a fever dream 

A knight kills his beloved without recognizing her. In Claudio Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a fatal mistake on the battlefield takes on a chilling musical form in which love, guilt and violence merge into a fever dream. 
 
Under the baton of Richard Egarr, the Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw (Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century) places Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento at the heart of a programme filled with poignant music from the Italian Baroque. The evening also features the music of Carlo Gesualdo, the composer who infamously had his wife and her lover killed after catching them together. Soprano Anna Prohaska and tenor Ian Bostridge guide the audience through this labyrinth of true and false memories, while two dancers add a physical dimension that brings the narrative to life. 

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