Rutilante in nocte
Ensemble Arco Amoroso

Ensemble Arco Amoroso

Valentina Fin, soprano

Marta Fraccaroli, mezzosoprano

Luigi Tinto e Marco Baratto, tenors

Luca Pasqualetto, bariton

Light and Transfiguration in the Mantua of Claudio Monteverdi

C. Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Rutilante in nocte (Io mi son giovinetta), SV 86

Ch’io ami la mia vita, SV 23

Se per avervi, ohimè, SV 24

Lamento di Arianna, SV 107

A walking itinerary through the streets of Mantua with Stefano Scansani, journalist and writer, introduces the concert. Meeting point: 5:00 PM, Piazza Paccagnini. 

30’ | Ticket offered by Oficina OCM and Gruppo Tea

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets can only be reserved and collected at the Trame Sonore Festival Box Office

In the Basilica of Santa Barbara, the beating heart of the Gonzaga musical life and a place closely connected to Claudio Monteverdi’s activity in Mantua, the Vicenza-based ensemble Arco Amoroso traces, through a journey of sharp contrasts, the portrait of a composer suspended between two eras: a pivotal figure in the transition from Renaissance balance to the new expressiveness of the Baroque.

From the brightness of Rutilante in nocte, a spiritual contrafactum of the madrigal Io mi son giovinetta (Fourth Book), the program moves to the still deeply polyphonic rigor of pieces such as Ch’io ami la mia vita and Se per avervi, ohimè (First Book), firmly rooted in Renaissance tradition yet already marked by an increasing expressive tension. In these works, the theme of love reveals its ambivalent nature, suspended between pleasure and suffering.

The journey culminates in the intense dramatic force of the Lamento di Arianna, the only surviving fragment of the homonymous opera composed for the Mantuan court and later reworked in the Sixth Book: a piece in which words become theatre and music becomes gesture, fully embodying the new Baroque sensibility.

A program that, within the symbolic space of the Basilica, restores the full force of an epochal transformation in which music discovers its power to move, narrate, and give voice to human passions.

Text by Desirée Blundi