Our most spectacular production yet brings together ceremonial music of the high Renaissance with dazzling contemporary aerial dance and evocative lighting and visual effects. Part of a long tradition, these six intermedi originally provided elaborately staged musical spectacles performed between the acts of the play La Pellegrina, and were commissioned as part of the wedding festivities for Ferdinando Medici and Christine of Lorraine - one of the most spectacular and expensive Medici weddings of all time. The budget for the original production - which included elaborate stage machinery and a cast of over a hundred of the most famous musicians of the day - would have been in the multi millions in today’s money! Our production features many of the country’s leading exponents of renaissance music and focuses on recreating the exciting and experimental world of the late 16th century by reworking the original grandiose staging using 21stcentury performance arts and technology – with more than a whiff of the circus! Tickets: Premium £26 (£24 conc); A £18.50 (£16.50 conc); B £12 (£10 conc) Brighton Early Music Festival 2012
Zu Aerial Dance/photo by Ken Street
THE 1589 FLORENTINE INTERMEDI
Young performers funded by:
The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust
To the memory of Vivienne Carter without whose legacy this performance could not take place 11