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Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610

Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 8:00 pm • Chan Centre at UBC

Event Code: ECA0812

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Suzie LeBlanc

Ellen Hargis

Tyler Duncan

Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
Ellen Hargis, soprano
Matthew White, alto
Debi Wong, alto
Colin Balzer, tenor
Charles Daniels, tenor
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Alexander Weimann, music director & keyboard

Paul Grindlay and Tony Funk, basses

With
The Whole Noyse and
Early Music Vancouver’s Baroque Festival Players

Immense in scale, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 was the most ambitious work of sacred music before Bach. The work is a marvel of creative genius, bridging the spiritual traditions of renaissance music with the more humanist values of the baroque age. Monteverdi created a seamlessly integration of renaissance polyphonic traditions with new operatic ideals. He housed those evolving musical ideas in a splendid architectural structure that includes polyphonic psalm settings, vocal concertos, hymns, motets, and a virtuosic instrumental sonata, all bound together by Gregorian chant.
The result is a timeless masterpiece of spiritual and emotional power.
The cast for this production is a who’s who of internationally-acclaimed early music performers. A team of outstanding vocal soloists is joined by favourite San Francisco wind band The Whole Noyse and a brilliant ensemble of Festival players directed by Alexander Weimann.

A production of Early Music Vancouver. For more detailed information on the program, go to Early Music Vancouver.

Tickets may also be purchased in person at The Chan Box Office. Office hours are Mon–Sat 12–5 PM. For more information please call 604-822-2697.

Also supported by the Mitchell Foundation, St. John's College, Green College, GNK Insurance and the Conseil des arts et des letters Quebec.

And with the generous assistance of the Drance Family Fund, the Nemetz Foundation, the Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation, the Rix Family Foundation and a number of major anonymous donors.

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