Commedia dell'arte

Guest Conductor : Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin (Australia)
Concert presented by The Montreal High Lights Festival

Johann David Heinichen: Concerto from the Dresden Concerti – in the Venetian style Luigi Boccherini: Symphony “La Casa del Diavolo” Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Sinfonia “Lo Frate ‘nnamurato”, for strings and basso continuo Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concertino from the Concertini Armonici Antonio Vivaldi : Concerto for 2 oboes, 2 horns, violin, stings and continuo

A flamboyant program embracing music and comedy!

With her usual panache, violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch is back to fire up the stars of the Arion Baroque Orchestra for whom, as for the protagonists of the Commedia Dell’Arte, there will be no holds barred. Almost all of musical Europe has come together to tread the same boards in order to entertain you with an array of pleasures to amuse the heart and the mind!