THE BOAT OF VENICE FOR PADUA

The music gives voice to a colorful series of characters: merchants, courtesans, students, Jews, foreigners, gathered in an imaginary river journey between the two main centers of the Serenissima Republic, Venice and Padua.

The Boat of Venice for Padua , published in Venice in 1605, is a profane music by Adriano Banchieri ; Olivetan monk of the Bolognese convent of San Michele in Bosco, composer and music theorist among the most illustrious of the early seventeenth century. Among his works attributable to the genre of the Madrid comedy La Barca stands out for the rich narrative frame in which the various pieces are set.

The Dramatodía ensemble, made up of 13 elements, owes its name (from the Greek “representative song”) to the Intermediates above the deceived Aurora composed by Girolamo Giacobbi in 1605, which constituted the first example of musical theater in the Bolognese area. The ensemble was born in 2000 with the intention of reviving the theatrical repertoire of the comedians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to explore the musical production that arose to enrich the performances.