Event

Rinaldo Alessandrini is one of the most distinguished harpsichordists and early music conductors active today on the international scene. He will lead his renown ensemble "Concerto Italiano” in Claudio Monteverdi’s "Coronation of Poppea" at Carnegie Hall on 2/21 as part of the festival "La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic.” On the next day, Maestro Alessandrini will visit Penn to talk about his long-term engagement with Monteverdi’s opera, as both conductor (at Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera among other venues) and director (Teatro Liceu in Salamanca). He is the artistic director of the new Baroque music festival "Purtimiro" in Lugo di Romagna, Italy. 
This event is organized in conjunction with the classes on Baroque Opera (musc 230) and History of Opera (musc 33), and in collaboration with the Center for Italian Studies. It is also occasioned by the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth.