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Vivaldi’s flamboyant music, with its heightened sense of urgency and drama, is perfectly attuned to this most theatrical of European cities.

Legendary, too, were the musical delights of the Ospedale della Pietà, the charitable institution for foundling and illegitimate girls with which the ‘Red Priest’, as he was dubbed, was associated for much of his life. Vivaldi manuscripts were must-have souvenirs for gentleman travellers visiting La Serenissima as part of the Grand Tour. During the 1720s and 1730s the elemental excitement of the Venetian’s concertos fuelled a Vivaldi craze throughout Italy and northern Europe.Īntonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) remains unrivalled for his gift of instant memorability and his knack of cutting straight through to the listener’s musical heart.

Listed in The Times' 50 best holidays in Italy ‘If acute and rapid tones are evil, then Vivaldi has much of the sin to answer for.’ Blurring music and morality, the English music historian Dr Charles Burney remained sceptical. Talks on music and eighteenth-century Venice by Richard Wigmore and Professor Tim Blanning, and optional walks in the company of art historians.Īccommodation for five nights from a choice of six carefully selected hotels, flights between London Heathrow or Gatwick and Venice (optional), transfers by water taxi and a range of other services and optional extras. Soloists include Lucy Crowe (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Hilary Summers (alto), Adrian Chandler (violin), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Peter Whelan (bassoon) and many others. Participating ensembles are among the world leaders in performance of Vivaldi and Italian Baroque – Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini, director), Modo Antiquo (Federico Sardelli), La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler), Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca (Giorgio Fava). Seven private concerts, ranging from small-scale concerti to an opera and an oratorio, in appropriate and beautiful halls and churches in Venice. A unique and unprecedented festival of the music of Antonio Vivaldi in the city where he was born and worked for most of his career.