MA Festival pulls out an old tra­di­tion for its 60th edi­tion and clos­es ten days of ear­ly music with Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro del­la Beata Vergine. Led by Lambert Colson, the Belgian ensem­ble InAlto per­forms Monteverdi’s musi­cal mon­u­ment on a copy of a real Italian organ. The ensem­ble thus fol­lows Monteverdi’s advice on the ide­al instru­men­ta­tion as he envis­aged it. This gives the per­for­mance a fresh new life while at the same time mak­ing it even more deeply root­ed in his­tor­i­cal per­for­mance practice.

Vespro del­la Beata Vergine by Claudio Monteverdi (1567−1643)

ensemble: InAlto (BE)

• musical direction: Lambert Colson (FR)

• soprano: Alice Foccroulle (BE)

• soprano: Carine Tinney (MT/UK)

• soprano: Mailys de Villoutreys (FR)

• tenor: Benedict Hymas (UK)

• tenor: Luca cervoni (IT)

• tenor: Riccardo Pisani (IT)