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If Opera

Carissimi / Monteverdi

17 Aug 2025

Church Ln, Wingfield, Trowbridge BA14 9LW, UK

Our double bill features the early Baroque master, Giacomo Carissimi and his oratorio, Historia Jonae, the story of Jonah and the whale, which will be immediately followed by a semi-staging of Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, written for the Venetian carnival season of 1624 and adapted from an episode in Tasso’s epic about the First Crusade. The Christian knight, Tancredi, challenges a Saracen to fight to the death, only to discover his vanquished opponent is the woman he loves. 

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