Consecration

Unfortunately, this event is now sold out.

A consecration of the space with Venetian sacred music featuring selections from Monteverdi’s Selva Morale e Spirituale and other works by the great Barbara Strozzi. Experience the purity and clarity of Sydney-based early music specialists Pinchgut Opera, directed by Erin Helyard at the organ.

Program

Anonymous Toccata (from the Chigi MS)

Monteverdi Selva morale et spirituale (SV 284): Salve Regina à 2

Monteverdi/Coppini Stabat Virgo Maria

Strozzi L’eraclito amoroso, Op. 2: Udite, udite amanti

Monteverdi Confitebor Secondo à 3 from Selva morale et spirituale (SV 266)

Monteverdi Selva morale et spirituale (SV 269): Beatus Vir à 5

Anonymous Toccata (from the Chigi MS)

Strozzi L’Amante modesto (Op. 1 No. 13)

Strozzi Sacri Musicali Affetti: O Maria

Monteverdi Salve Regina à 3 (SV 285)

Gregorio Strozzi Toccata quarta per l’elevatione

Monteverdi Selva morale et spirituale (SV 271): Laudate Pueri Secondo à 5

Credits

Artistic Director & Conductor Erin Helyard

Pinchgut Opera
Chloe Lankshear, soprano
Anna Fraser, soprano
Louis Hurley, tenor
Richard Butler, tenor
Andrew O’Connor, bass
Hannah Lane, baroque harp
Anton Baba, gamba/cello
Erin Helyard, harpsichord/organ

Image Lando Rossi

Generously supported by Leading Patron Ulrike Klein AO. With thanks to Judith Neilson and Phoenix Central Park for the loan of the 1853 Érard piano.

For more information about Pinchgut Opera and Erin Helyard, please see the Additional Information section below.

Additional Info

About Erin Helyard
Erin Helyard has been acclaimed as an inspiring conductor, a virtuosic and expressive performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and as a lucid scholar who is passionate about promoting discourse between musicology and performance. As Artistic Director and co-founder of the celebrated Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes (Sydney) he has forged new standards of excellence in historically-informed performance in Australia. He has received two Helpmann Awards for Best Musical Direction (2017, 2019) and an ARIA for Best Classical Album (2020). Erin is a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and appears courtesy of Pinchgut Opera.

About Pinchgut Opera
Pinchgut Opera is Australia's only company dedicated to Baroque opera and vocal music, with a global reputation as one of the world's finest companies specialising in historically informed performance. Pinchgut takes rare and often undiscovered masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries and re-creates them in the modern frame, giving contemporary relevance to this exquisite music of the past for today’s audiences to enjoy.

Buy tickets
Buy Friends tickets

View Event Details

DURATION

1hr 10mins, no interval

NOTE

The UKARIA bar will be open from 90 minutes prior to the first concert each day and throughout the day, offering beverages and cakes.

Ticketing and event information

For booking and access ticket enquiries, please contact our ticketing team on 1300 393 404.

COVID MANAGEMENT

Please note Adelaide Festival’s COVID-19 Management Policy requires all patrons to be double vaccinated.

Patrons will be required to wear masks for the duration of the show.

ACCESS

Wheelchair accessible
For access seating info for this show, please speak to our ticketing team on 1300 393 404.

Event actions

Consecration details

Event actions

Consecration description

Event additional information

Credits

Additional Info

You might also be interested in

Prayer for the Living

Chineke! Chamber Ensemble

Haydn's Solar Poetics: Morning, Noon & Night