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The concert will last for approximately one hour, without interval, and will be followed by a wine reception.Performers:
Kate Smith, soprano
Rafael Montero, tenor
Joana Praća, violin
Edmund Taylor, violin
Fábio Fernandes, theorbo / baroque guitar
Pablo Tejedor-Gutierrez, baroque cello
Johnny F Rodriguez, Andean wind and percussion
The ensemble of 2 singers and 5 instrumentalists will give the first London concert performance of the Indigenous opera San Francisco, written in the Chiquitano language by an anonymous Indigenous composer in the Jesuit missions of Bolivia. The opera received its first UK staging as part of "The Mouth of the Gods" in November 2024 a critically acclaimed multi-media production by Border Crossings, and most of the same performers are involved in this concert.
The concert will also include vocal and instrumental items from the 18th Century Peruvian "Codex Martinez Companon" which collected both sacred and secular music from Peru at that time.
We will also present the first performance of a recently discovered cantata for tenor, "Tu anarda, despides" by the Bolivian composer Manuel Mesa Carrizo (? - 1803) in a performing edition created by the period expert Drew Edward Davies of Northwestern University, Illinois.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Mary Moorfields, 4 Eldon Street, London, EC2M 7LS, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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