Under the direction of Geoffrey Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris explore seventeenth-century Venetian madrigals, weaving together the city’s characteristic polychoral writing with the emerging dramatic accents of early opera. A performance that reveals the full richness of a city in chiaroscuro, alive with its own ambiguities. 
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With Venetian Passions (Passions vénitiennes), Les Cris de Paris and Geoffrey Jourdain explore a seventeenth century in which Venice fused liturgical splendour with emerging theatricality. Sixteen singers and nine instrumentalists traverse polychorality, chaconnes, expressive narratives and sacred pages marked by the imprint of San Marco. A performance poised between shadow and light, captured at full intensity.
Venice, between sacred and profane
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