English Touring Opera presents Vivaldi: Music for a Venetian Orphanage

This autumn, English Touring Opera presents a rare treat – Vivaldi’s beautiful sacred music in the beautiful setting of Holy Cross Church, Crediton.

ETO soloists and baroque orchestra, the Old Street Band join forces with the Choir of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross for this atmospheric concert of music for the orphan musicians of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where Vivaldi, nicknamed the 'Red Priest', worked for most of his life.

The programme features the Magnificat, whose arias in the original score were inscribed with the name of the orphan girl intended to perform, the exquisite Stabat Mater for solo voice and the exuberant Jubilate O Amoeni, an elaboration of Vivaldi's celebrated Gloria in D major with additional text and arias.

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Tickets: £10 unreserved.

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