Tenorino’s Tale
A Story of Music, Trifles and Loves
2025-06-04 – h. 18.00-19.30
Bernhard Haitinkzaal, Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Oosterdokskade 151, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Music by M.A. Charpentier, G.P. Telemann, G.B. Riccio, G.F. Handel, J. Haydn, J. Ortells, E. De’ Cavalieri, A. Steffani, P. Barges, C. Monteverdi, F. Cavalli.
Tenorino’s tale is a concert-theatre experience that traverses the shifting boundaries between sacred solemnity and theatrical exuberance, between devotional awe and amorous mischief.
Conceived as both a musical journey and a staged narrative, the program explores the human voice in its many guises—pious, playful, intimate, grand—as it moves through centuries of vocal repertoire. At its heart is Tenorino, a young singer in search of meaning, mastery, and love. What begins as a seemingly traditional concert of sacred works—chants, motets, excerpts from oratorios and masses—gradually transforms into a light-hearted and richly layered tale of self-discovery, stagecraft, and seduction.
The first part of the programme presents a seamless sequence of sacred music by Charpentier, Bach, Telemann, Haendel, and Haydn. It invites the listener into the world of spiritual music, evoking ideals of elevation, clarity, and ritual. But soon, a voice—curious and restless—begins to question the boundaries of genre, tone, and decorum. What if music were not only the voice of prayer, but also of passion? What if the same sacred melismas could lead not only to heaven, but to a window at night, a love song, or a whispered joke?
The second part unfolds as a theatrical cabaret of transformations, in which Tenorino assumes a series of characters: the Virgin Mary, the Allegory of Pleasure, a spurned serenader, and the cunning nurse Arnalta from Monteverdi’s Poppea. Sacred arias, comic monologues, and love duets interlace to form a gently ironic meditation on the singer’s role, on human frailty, and on the beauty of imperfection.
This is a tale told in music and gesture, voice and laughter—where the sacred and the profane meet not in conflict, but in counterpoint.
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