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La Serenissima: Vivaldi in Venice (Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts)
14 August 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Howe Street Ensemble
Director: Les ShanklandAntonio Vivaldi was employed as Maestro di Capella, at the Ospedale Della Pieta, in the great mercantile city of Venice. Here he produced a great deal of instrumental, and operatic music, along with a significant collection of church music to be performed by the talented choir and instrumentalists based at the orphanage within the Ospedale. In La Serenissima, The Howe Street Ensemble performs works from this collection, including. the Gloria in D major, and Lauda Jerusalem, along withe Vesper Psalm Beatus Vir. in Edinburgh’s comfortable and atmospheric Canongate Kirk.
Director: Les ShanklandAntonio Vivaldi was employed as Maestro di Capella, at the Ospedale Della Pieta, in the great mercantile city of Venice. Here he produced a great deal of instrumental, and operatic music, along with a significant collection of church music to be performed by the talented choir and instrumentalists based at the orphanage within the Ospedale. In La Serenissima, The Howe Street Ensemble performs works from this collection, including. the Gloria in D major, and Lauda Jerusalem, along withe Vesper Psalm Beatus Vir. in Edinburgh’s comfortable and atmospheric Canongate Kirk.
TICKETS: £16 (under 18 £10) from Fringe Box Office and Eventbrite and on the door