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Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

composed by Claudio Monteverdi

Monteverdi's most extreme example of the baroque aesthetic in music, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda explores the mysterious connection perceived during the Renaissance between sexuality and death, lovemaking and war.  In the spirit of Monteverdi's search for the shock of the new, the Metropolis Ensemble will present a semi-staged interpretation inspired by the composer's own written dramatic suggestions, performed with a modern instrumentation of accordion, guitar, synthesizer, and string ensemble.

• Canto XII
  Testo: tratto dal GERUSALEMME LIBERATA di Torquato Tasso
  

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