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Monteverdi "Vespro di Natale"
Theater und Philharmonie Essen, Alfried Krupp Saal (Essen)
On this second Sunday of Advent, experience an extraordinary Christmas work. Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi, known as "the divine," led the splendid musical design at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. As his Christmas Eve mass is lost, Andrea Macron created a vesper service, combining works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries, evoking a Venetian Christmas liturgy of the early 17th century.