Christmas Festival. Neapolis Ensemble. Italian Baroque Masterpieces

Maria Marone – voice
Giuseppe Copia – baroque and classic guitars
Nunzio Veneruso – mandolins
Valerio Mola – viola da gamba
Raffaele Filaci – percussions
Fabio Soriano – flutes, musical direction

From its foundation, the Neapolis Ensemble has played in very prestigious events in more than 20 countries, like the Festival d’Ile-de-de France, Salle Cortot of Paris, the Festival de Sablé, the Opera Theatres of Lyon, the Festival International de Musique de Besançon, the Opera Theatre of Lilla, the Théâtre de l’Athénée of Paris (France), the Montserrat’s Abbey (Spain), the Kölner Philharmonie, the Radialsystem V in Berlin, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, Festival Mitte Europa (Germany), the Flanders Festival of Bruges and Mechelen (Belgium), the Musical Weeks in Merano, the Teatro Al Massimo of Palermo (Italy), the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Teatro Oriente in Santiago (Cile), the Meknès Festival (Morocco), the University Cultural Centre in Mexico City (Mexico), the Ballroom Radisson in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Palaces Festival of Saint-Petersbourg, the Dom Muziki of Moscow (Russia), the Dornbirn Festival, the Brucknerhaus of Linz (Austria), the Muziekgebouw of Amsterdam, the Utrecht Oude Muziek (the Netherlands), the Eesti Concert Hall of Tallinn (Estonia), the Intercultural Art Dialogues Day of Istanbul (Turkey).

Neapolis has taken part to a lot of radio programmes like Radio France, Radiouno, Klara Radio, SWR2, Catalunya Radio and has released a live concert for Mezzo TV.

This musical programme features Neapolitan music of the 16th and 17th centuries, including works by Giovan Thomaso di Maio, Francesco Lambardi, G. L. “dell’arpa” Mollica, Giovan Domenico da Nola, Andrea Falconieri and Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, as well as transcriptions by Athanasius Kircher. The programme is further enriched by several anonymous traditional Neapolitan pieces.