ĀRT HOUSE 17
Arlecchina: An Early Musical
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Livestream from Utrecht, Stadsschouwburg / Blauwe Zaal on 5 September 2026 at 11:00
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About this concert
A wooden puppet comes to life – but where is her voice? When Arlecchina loses her ventriloquist, a wild search for sound and identity begins. With the help of a motley crew, she goes to see the Queen of England (leading lady Emma Kirkby!), hoping she can make her speak. Throughout the festival, ĀRT HOUSE 17 serves up this sparkling early musical, full of commedia dell’arte, acrobatics, and music from Dowland to Purcell.
Family show
Programme
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Anonymous / John Playford
Over the Mountains
(from: Musick's Delight on the Cithren, London 1666)1623-1686/7 -
Anonymous
La bella Franceschina
16th century -
Pierre Guédron
Aux plaisirs, aux délices, bergères
(from: Troisième livre d’airs de cour a quatre & cinq parties, Paris 1618)1564-1619/20 -
Marco Uccellini
Aria Quinta Sopra la Bergamasca à 3
(from: Sonate arie, et correnti a 2. e. 3., Venice 1642)1603-1680 -
Anonymous / ?Stefano Landi
Passacalli della vita, ‘O, come t’inganni’
(from: Canzonette spirituali, e morali, Milan 1657)1587-1639 -
Alessandro Stradella
Tuonerà tra mille turbini
(from: San Giovanni Battista, Rome 1675)1639-1682 -
Anonymous
The Furies (Masque Dance)
(from: British Library Add. MS 10444, 17th century) -
Anonymous / ?William Byrd
My Little Sweet Darling
c1540-1623 -
Claudio Monteverdi
Oblivion soave
(from: L’incoronazione di Poppea, Venice 1642/43)
Lamento della Ninfa, ‘Amor’
(from: Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, Venice 1638)1567-1643 -
Pietro Antonio Cesti
Chi non beve vita breve goderà
(from: L’Orontea, Innsbruck 1656)1623-1669 -
Henry Purcell
Dialogue between Corydon and Mopsa, ‘Now the maids and the men’
(from: The Fairy-Queen, London 1692)
What Power Art Thou
(from: King Arthur, or The British Worthy, London 1691)1659-1695 -
Aldo Visconti
Tornerai
1908-1990 -
Marin Marais
Tempête
(from: Alcione, Paris 1706)1656-1728 -
John Dowland
Say love if ever thou didst find
(from: The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, London 1603)1563-1626 -
Henry Purcell
Fairest Isle
Ye blust’ring brethren
(from: King Arthur) -
John Dowland
Humour, Say what mak'st thou here
(from: The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, London 1600)
Time stands still
(from: The Third and Last Booke) -
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
L’innamorato, ‘A lieta vita Amor ci inuita’
(from: Balletti a cinque voci, Venice 1591)c1553-1609 -
Anonymous
Monferrine
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Emma Kirkby soprano / La Regina
- Sophie Daneman soprano / Franceschina, a dame
- Adrián Schvarzstein actor / Tartaglia, her husband, a ventriloquist
- Mareike Franz dancer / Arlecchina, a wooden puppet
- Benedikt Kristjánsson tenor / Pedrolino, a thief
- Dietrich Henschel baritone / Capitano, a thief
- Georg Kroneis baritone / Pickelherring, a Hanswurst
- ĀRT HOUSE 17
- Maria Kubizek violin I
- Raffaele Nicoletti violin II
- Barbara Konrad viola
- Hannah Freienstein cello
- Georg Kroneis viola da gamba, double bass
- Ivan Trenev accordion
- Sofie Vanden Eynde lute, theorbo
- Michael Hell musical director, harpsichord, recorder, tenor
- Thomas Höft dramaturg, co-director
- Adrián Schvarzstein co-director
- Lilli Hartmann costume, set design
- Historical theatre sets by Florent Van den Berghe from the Jed Wentz Collection
About the performers
ĀRT HOUSE 17 is an ensemble conducted by Michael Hell. Besides using historical instruments, the ensemble considers it important to do justice to the broader context in which the music was performed. The central question here is: what does the music have to say today? ĀRT HOUSE 17 has been a guest at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht several times in recent years with their music theatre performances such as Kaffeekantate and The Crocodile Bar. The ensemble also created the Utrechter Passion during Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2022.