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The Dream and Narcissus

Italian, Spanish and English music and poetry.
16th – 17th century composers

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.	chansons d'amour
.	the triumph of bacchus
.	the flower dance
.	bacchus invites us to pleasure and joy
.	sweetest sigh
.	pure white moon
.	thou, my sweet, art my happiness
.	oh bitter sweetness
.	a toast, now pass the flask around!
.	the dream and narcissus
.	serenade
.	messalina
.	the night languishes, moans, sighs
.	if beauty kindles your love
.	liederabend
.	cafe' chantant
.	operatic concert
.	rita

The music evokes distant worlds, uniting a mournful singability with dance rhythms in the English and Irish tunes and an instinctive expansiveness with authentic art in the Spanish and Italian melodies; the poetry underlines the strength of passion by endlessly conjuring up new images and emotions.

performers

1 reciter, 3 musicians

instruments

copies of original instruments: fipple flutes, lute, guitar, theorbo, percussion

duration

c. 1 hour

props

candles, torches

sites

inside or outside an historic villa, museum, cloisters, small square, small

The Dream and Narcissus

Italian, Spanish and English music and poetry.16th – 17th century composers

Italian, Spanish and English music and poetry.
16th – 17th century composers