The orphan girls of Venice were among the most celebrated performers of eighteenth-century Venice, and some of Vivaldi’s finest ambassadors. With Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain returns to this female source, casting the composer’s sacred works in a light that is at once faithful and unexpected. 
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At Ambronay, Les Cris de Paris and their director Geoffroy Jourdain offer with “The Orphan Girls of Venice” (Les Orphelines de Venise) a fresh reading of Vivaldi’s great sacred works, drawing on the practices of the Venetian ospedali. While Damiano Michieletto’s film Primavera, recently released and still showing in cinemas, has brought renewed attention to these young musicians trained at the Pietà, Total Baroque Magazine invites you to prolong its musical resonance. Performed by an all-female choir, this programme questions the original destination of these works and renews our listening through precise musicological and vocal research.
Training of the highest order
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