1999 Festival
Music of the Mediterranean
June 8-13, 1999

Fully-staged Operatic Centerpiece

Ercole Amante
Music by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Libretto by Francesco Buti (d. 1682)

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Music Directors
Jack Edwards, Stage Director
Robin Linklater, Designer
Lucy Graham, Choreographer & Movement
L. Stacy Eddy, Lighting Designer
Anna Watkins, Costume Supervisor

Cast, in order of appearance
Paul Guttry, Il Tevere
Claron McFadden, Cinthia
Nathaniel Watson, Ercole
Ellen Hargis, Venere
Laurie Reviol, Deborah Leath Rentz & Kamala Soparkar, Le Tre Grazie
Meredith Hall, Giunone
Lisa Saffer, Iole
William Hite, Hyllo
Steve Dugardin, Paggio
Olof Lilja, Licco
Ann Hallenberg, Deianira
Deborah Leath Rentz, Pasithea
Florian Eckhardt, Sonno
Donald Wilkinson, Nettunno
Harry van der Kamp, Ombra d’Eutiro
Chorus: Kamala Soparkar, James Deselms, Clifford Rust
Dancers: Audra Carabetta, Tina M. Cassidy, Florian Eckhardt, Susan McNichol, Melinda Sullivan & Kaj Sylegård
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
June 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
Copley Theatre, Boston

Individual Concerts

Andreas Staier, harpsichord
Variacones del Fandango Español

Ensemble Sarband
Vladimir Ivanoff, director
Sephardic Songs in the Hispano-Arabic Tradition of Medieval Spain

The King’s Noyse/BEMF Violin Band
Il Giardino d’Amore: Choice Plums from Alessandro Scarlatti’s Rich Musical Garden

La Colombina
Feria VI in Passione Domini: La litrugia del Viernes Santo

Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall, director
Tonos Humanos & Differencias: Spanish Songs & Instrumental Variations

Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall, director
Las Folias

The Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, director

Dan Laurin, recorder & Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
Virtuosic Explosions in the Italian Style

Late Night Concerts

La Luna
Sprezzatura

La Colombina
Musica en Las Españas de Felipe II: Villancicos, Ensaladas & Madrigals from 16th-century Catalonia, Castille & Andalusia

Jan Willem Jansen, organ
B.A.C.H.: Bruna, Arauxo, Cabanilles & de Heredia

Tragicomedia
with guest artist Marco Beasley, tenor
Festa Napolitana

Masterclasses

Harry van der Kamp, voice
Andreas Staier, harpsichord
Bruce Haynes, baroque oboe
Ingrid Matthews, violin
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
Paul O’Dette, lute
Dennis Ferry & Fred Holmgren, baroque trumpet
Claron McFadden, voice
Jan Willem Jansen, organ
Dan Laurin, recorder

Symposia

Recording Session Part I: Brewing your own
Recording Session Part II: The Wheat from the Chaff
Mounting Cavalli’s Ercole Amante – Research & Production Issues
The Evolution of Opera in France
Instrument Collections – The 21st Century is Here
Early Music & Healing