Orfeus - myth and music

lecture with music

12 may 18.00 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm city

Meet the myth through composers such as Monteverdi, Caccini and Belli

Musician and musicologist Andrés Locatelli gives a lecture with sound examples by Marco Saccardin, baritone and theorbo.

The lecture will be in English at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

Andrés Locatelli is Italian-Argentinean musician and musicologist based in Switzerland. As a recorder player, he has collaborated extensively with some of the most celebrated early music orchestras and ensembles across Europe. Since January 2024, he is instructor of the Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies program at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. As conductor and musical director, Andrés is particularly interested in sacred and secular polyphonic music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, 17th-century opera, and experimental interdisciplinary projects based on early music. Andrés is member of the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra.

The Italian baritone Marco Saccardin studied classical guitar with Monica Paolini at the Francesco Venezze Conservatory in his home city of Rovigo, and went on to study lute with Massimo Lonardi at the Franco Vittadini Conservatory in Pavia. During his instrumental studies, he became a member of the Coro Polofonico Città di Rovigo, under the direction of Vittorio Zanon and Marco Scavazza. With the latter, he studied Renaissance and Baroque singing. He regularly gives recitals in which he accompanies himself – as was customary in Italy in the early 17th century – on the lute or the chitarrone. As the winner of the Tullio Serafin International Singing Competition in 2022, Marco Saccardin received acclaim in his debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Olimpico.

The lecture is part of Drottningholms Slottsteaters Akademi

Monday 12 May at 18.00
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan12

tickets

250 SEK
Under 26 years: 200 SEK