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Gotham Early Music Scene

Jordi Savall Brings “Tears and Fire” to Cal Performances

On Oct. 12 at Cal Performances, we got a chance to hear “Lasciatemi” in its original ensemble form and in its original context as part of Monteverdi’s now mostly lost opera L’Arianna. The opera dramatizes the mythical plight of Ariadne, who’s been abandoned on a desert island by her cad of a lover, the hero Theseus. L’Arianna must have seemed something of a downer in its premiere as entertainment for a 1608 royal wedding.

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