Faithful to custom you can enjoy a well-assorted festival menu (entree + main course) before the evening concerts in AMUZ. During the marathon of madrigals this pop-up bistro serves a special Menù della Maratona.

FESTIVAL MENU: On 23, 24, 26, 27 & 28 August

Entree choose from Melanzane alla parmigiana (casserole with aubergines, courgettes, tomato, melted mozzarella & parmegiano) OR Insalata Caprese: salad with mozzarella, tomato & basil

Main course choose from Scaloppina alla Milanese (breaded veal with pasta & tomato sauce) OR Lasagna vegetale (vegetarian lasagna) OR Linguine scampi Capri (linguine with prawns in a spicy tomato sauce) 

Dessert € 6,00: Tiramisu, Panna Cotta, Tartufo

Price € 19. Festival menu SAT 23/08 ORDER | SUN 24/08 ORDER | TUE 26/08 ORDER | WED 27/08 ORDER | THU 28/08 ORDER

MENÙ DELLA MARATONA: On 29 & 30 August
06.00 p.m.: buffet of homemade pizzas
08.00 p.m.: evening concert 
09.15 p.m.: buffet of Italian Specialities (Saltimbocca alla Romana, Pasta Vongole, Polpetta Pomodoro, Lasagna, Patate al forno …)
10.15 p.m.: late evening concert 

Price: € 24. Menù della Maratona FRI 29/08 ORDER | SAT 30/08 ORDER

Concert tickets are not included. Advance booking is required.

23 August, 2014 16:00 -- AMUZ

The shift from Renaissance polyphony to early baroque monody in Italy is one of the most important upheavals in western music history. In this musing nocturne, entitled La Clessidra (the hourglass), crowd puller Marco Beasley brings some highlights from the most popular music sources of that era.

The Roman nobleman Emilio de’ Cavalieri was a central figure in the musical innovation of about the year 1600. Through the publication of his Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo the ‘recitar cantando’ was also born concurrently, being an essential step in the development of the opera. This leads us smoothly to fragments from Jacopo Peri’s L’Euridice and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Indispensable in this music selection is also Giulio Caccini’s volume Le Nuove Musiche, with songs for solo song and basso continuo. This tribute to the magical symbiosis of text and music will not fail to move you.  

The concert at 8.00 p.m. is almost sold out. There will be an extra performance at 3.00 p.m. Click on the link to the left to buy tickets.  

23 August, 2014 18:00 -- AMUZ

What happens when you bring together the world of jazz and that of Monteverdi? Is there a musical meeting point where both can fuse? Ensemble La Venexiana proves there is. With some excellent jazz musicians and the warm, narrating voice timbres of soprano Roberta Mameli they put Claudio’s original madrigals in a new light.

“In Monteverdi’s music there is something modern, something new and pathmaking that encourages you to do daring things and to push on to the cutting edge”, as artistic director Claudio Cavina puts it. Under his direction La Venexiana developed its own style: a warm, Mediterranean mix of textual recitation, rhetorical colour and harmonic refinement. With Round M the group pays homage to jazz, without however changing one single note in Monteverdi’s original scores.

23 August, 2014 20:15 -- De Roma

What happens when you bring together the world of jazz and that of Monteverdi? Is there a musical meeting point where both can fuse? Ensemble La Venexiana proves there is. With some excellent jazz musicians and the warm, narrating voice timbres of soprano Roberta Mameli they put Claudio’s original madrigals in a new light. 

“In Monteverdi’s music there is something modern, something new and pathmaking that encourages you to do daring things and to push on to the cutting edge”, as artistic director Claudio Cavina puts it. Under his direction La Venexiana developed its own style: a warm, Mediterranean mix of textual recitation, rhetorical colour and harmonic refinement. With Round M the group pays homage to jazz, without however changing one single note in Monteverdi’s original scores.

23 August, 2014 22:15 -- de-roma

Year after year Laus Polyphoniae and Musica present the most promising young music ensembles that apply themselves to historically informed performance practice. The musicians have been selected for coaching by the American soprano and early music specialist Jill Feldman. To cap it all, the ensembles present themselves to you, the festival public.

You are invited to discover the selected musicians of 2014 during a concert walk in the Zurenborg district. At some special venues they will play amazingly diverse repertoire during the opening weekend of the festival. The walk starts at the pub Den Draak (Draakplaats 1, 2018 Antwerp) and will take up both the morning and the afternoon. At noon there will be a lunch pause, to be filled in at your own discretion. 

In cooperation with Musica, Impulse center for music

24 August, 2014 08:00 -- Café Den Draak

Year after year Laus Polyphoniae and Musica present the most promising young music ensembles that apply themselves to historically informed performance practice. The musicians have been selected for coaching by the American soprano and early music specialist Jill Feldman. To cap it all, the ensembles present themselves to you, the festival public. You are invited to discover the selected musicians of 2014 during a concert walk in the Zurenborg district. At some special venues they will play amazingly diverse repertoire during the opening weekend of the festival. The walk starts at the pub Den Draak (Draakplaats 1, 2018 Antwerp) and will take up both the morning and the afternoon. At noon there will be a lunch pause, to be filled in at your own discretion.

24 August, 2014 10:00 -- ZURENBORG Start: Café Den Draak