Canto d’Orfeo

The mythical singer Orpheus himself will be present at the ceremonial closing of the 24th Summer Festivities of Early Music. The son of Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, was blessed with an enchanting voice and was able to captivate both human and mythical beings with his musical art. The Canto d’Orfeo concert in the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude will be an extraordinary artistic experience, dominated by the delicious timbre of the French alto Delphine Galou, the graceful flute in the hands of Jana Semerádová and the interpretive mastery of the Collegium Marianum ensemble in residence.
 
The immortal love story of Orpheus and Eurydice and their dramatic fate will come to life in a programme of arias and overtures from Baroque operas by Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Joseph Fux and Carl Heinrich Graun. In their masterful compositions we will find scintillating emotions of sincere joy, explosive excitement and profound sadness, as well as expressions of peaceful repose and heavenly tranquillity. The final concert of the festival will be a tribute to the mythical singer Orpheus, whose art was worshipped by gods, humans, animals, natural elements and creatures from the underworld.