Ton Koopmans Vespro della Beata Vergine-tour

Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine is a milestone in music history. Four hundred years ago this masterpiece had its first performance in  Mantua in the Santa Barbara Church.

Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir will give a very special Anniversary concert of the Vespro della Beata Vergine in the this same Santa Barbara Church in Mantua! Also the work will be performed in other places in Italy and the Netherlands. It will be the first time Koopman will perform the Vespro della Beata Vergine in The Netherlands!

The tour:
12-5  –  Utrecht Jacobikerk - 20.15
13-5  –  Rotterdam de Doelen - 20.15
14-5  –  Amsterdam Westerkerk - 20.15
15-5  –  Cremona Chiesa di San Marcellino - 21.00
16-5  –  Varese Basilica di San Vittore - 20.30
17-5  –  Mantua Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara - 21.00 (Anniversary Concert)
18-5  –  Milaan Conservatorio - 20.30
19-5  –  Rome Auditorio Santa Cecilia - 20.30
20-5  –  Udine Teatro Nuovo - 20.45

Tickets May 12 and 14:
www.oudemuziek.nl  - by phone (between 10.00-16.00) 030-2329010

Tickets May 13:
www.dedoelen.nl  - by phone (betweenn 10.00-18.00) 010 2171717

The concerts in Utrecht and Amsterdam are organized by Ton Koopman himself and his people. There is nothing that Ton Koppman and his musicians want more than playing beautiful music and that is why he took the concert-organisation in his own hands, since there were difficulties in the field of subsidy. But...there was some very good news recently because the Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten as well as the  Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst will now give subsidy for these Monteverdi-concerts and it seems that the problems with getting subsidy are over finally! This news was published in the daily national paper De Telegraaf on May 7th by journalist Thiemo Wind.

"The audience will not associate me at first hand with this repertoire, but in my life I have conducted more Monteverdot than most people know." Koopman in the interview with De Telegraaf

Besides this new challenge around Monteverdi, Ton Koopman released  a new and splendid CD with the London Symphonies van Haydn, nos. 97 & 98 (CC 72360) last month. It is highly possible that more (or even all) London Symphonies will be recorded on CD in the future. Of course Challenge Classics will keep you informed about these plans! More information about the Haydn-CD: see here