And in Arcadia I am, or Guercino between sacred and arcane

Ensemble The Third Practice

Deda Cristina Colonna, acting and directing

Angelo Galeano, canto

Massimiliano Toni, harpsichord, organo, keyboard

Massimo Cialfi, percussion, baroque tenor trombone

Francesco Gonzales, sets and costumes

Jean-Paul Carradori/Francesco Vitali, lights and projections

Costumes made by Ada Del Conte, Novara

Scenography created by Arte Antica del Ferro Trecate

Assistant to the scenes: Michela Tarantini

The splendid painting and the life apparently devoid of striking facts of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, said Guercino, they served as a canvas for the construction of a show in which they coexist different languages ​​- from music to poetry, to the image - in the representation between ancient and modern of the great contrasts that animate Baroque art: here on the one hand the grim words del Cardinal Paleotti become almost ironic in the recitation of some pages of the treatise “Delle sacred and profane images "; on the other hand, the notes of the songs painted by Guercino resound on the walls of the music room of Casa Pennisi in Cento; here are again the verses of the Liberated Jerusalem and Virgil's Ecloga IV and a mixture of notes by Henry Purcell and the Pink Floyd.

The music of four keyboards (an organ, a harpsichord, an electronic keyboard and a computer), of many different percussions, a Renaissance tenor trombone and a countertenor voice, typical of Baroque vocality, they are combined with the projection of many paintings and drawings by Guercino, in a slender scenography that frames the stage space.

Novara, ex Church of S. Agostino

22 June 2006

Program

I. AND IN ARCADIA I AM

Giambattista Marino, The galery, Saint Francis by Camillo Procaccini in Giovan Carlo's house Doria

– Guercino's book of accounts

– Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata first from II

Book

– Gabriele Paleotti, Speech around the images

sacred and profane, Bologna 1582

– Guercino's book of accounts

– georg Friedrich Handel, aria “O Lord whose

Mercies“- Symphony from the "Saul" oratory

– Guercino's book of accounts

– Gabriele Paleotti, Speech around the images

sacred and profane, Bologna 1582

– Anonymous, ariette frescoed by Guercino sui

walls of the music room of Casa Pennisi a

one hundred: "Alma mia", "Fresh Auras"

– Antony Coma, Sacred Songs op. IV

"Blow the trumpet"

– Letter from Ludovico Carracci to Ferrante Carli,

25 October 1617

– Gabriele Paleotti, Speech around the images

sacred and profane, Bologna 1582

– Antonio Valente, I pass and a half with seven

you give

– Guercino's book of accounts

– Giambattista Marino, The galery, Cleopatra

II. I, THIS ARCANA DEI

– Girolamo Frescobaldi, First Book of Arias

music "At the foot of the Grand Cross"

– Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Liberated, XIX,

102-114

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I travel to italy

– diego ortiz, treatise on glosses, Researched VII

– Domenico Gabrielli, Sing aloud,

"Why never, Adored god "

– Guercino's book of accounts

– Publius Ovidius Nasone, Letters of Heroines

(Dido to Aeneas)

III. I mean the ARA in the roof

– Girolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata second from II

Book

– Publius Virgilius Marone, Bucolic, Eclogue IV

– Henry Purcell, "The fatal hour"

– Guercino's book of accounts

– Claudio Monteverdi, Moral and spiritual forest,

"Praise the Lord"

– Fulcanelli, The mystery of the cathedrals

– Bernardo Storace, Selva of compositions ,

Ciaccona

The show was performed:

22 October 2005, review "Microludi", Cislago (VA)

22 June 2006, ex Church of S. Agostino, Novara

16 September 2006, Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta, Lainate (MI)

23 July 2007, Gijon South Theater, Gijon (Spain)