Combattimento - War, peace and lost love in the music of Claudio Monteverdi

Concert 4: Combattimento, Series XVIII, Season 2025/26 / Four concerts on subscription

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 2 pm — Bavarian National Museum, Mars-Venus Hall
1 pm — Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Bernhold Schmid

Claudio Monteverdi's music oscillates between heaven and hell, between battle and longing. This concert presents impressive madrigals from his eighth book (Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi, 1638), including the dramatic Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, a musical battle scene full of emotion and intensity. The program also includes the touching Lamento d'Arianna, Monteverdi's only surviving aria from the lost opera L'Arianna, as well as the virtuoso Ogni amante è guerrier based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Il ballo delle ingrate concludes the evening with a dark splendor: a warning vision from the underworld about the power of spurned love—impressive, musical, emotional.

Emma-Lisa Roux – Soprano, Theorbo
Coline Dutilleul – Mezzo
Giovanni Cantarini – Tenor
Manuel Warwitz – Tenor
Penelope Spencer – Violin
Nagi Tsutsui – Violin
Michael Eberth – Harpsichord
Joel Frederiksen – Bass, Archlute, Conductor

4th concert of the XVIII concert series “Between Mars and Venus”

With the kind support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and the District of Upper Bavaria.