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November 2018
1588 – WINDS OF FORTUNE: A PAIR OF INVASIONS
Fieri Consort return to the Brighton Early Music Festival to sing passionate madrigals from the anthology Musica Transalpina, alongside sacred Spanish gems from the time of Mary Tudor’s marriage to Philip II of Spain, and other works reflecting rich cultural exchanges between England and the Continent. 1588 – a year that almost drastically changed the course of history in Britain. But for a change in the wind, the Spanish Armada would almost certainly have succeeded in invading these shores with…
Find out more »The Bells of Paradise (Weston Concert Society)
A concert of traditional and contemporary music including works by Monteverdi, McDowell, Howells, Victoria and Palestrina. Fieri travel through the Christmas story from the glory of the Annunciation, through the wonder of the shepherds and magi to the celebration of the birth.
Find out more »The Bells of Paradise (Bridport)
A concert of traditional and contemporary music including works by Monteverdi, McDowell, Howells, Victoria and Palestrina. Fieri travel through the Christmas story from the glory of the Annunciation, through the wonder of the shepherds and magi to the celebration of the birth.
Find out more »February 2019
Wigmore Hall, Emma Kirkby 70th birthday concert
Dame Emma Kirkby performs alongside long-term musical associates as well as a younger generation of artists she believes will play an important role in the future of early music. Fieri are honoured to be joining the Chelys consort of viols and members of Dowland Works in this concert.
Find out more »June 2019
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 – Chester Cathedral
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, performed in the inspiring architecture of Chester Cathedral, a worthy stand-in for St Mark’s Venice. This sequence of vocal and choral masterpieces, composed just at the time when opera was taking off, is unique in its colour and vivid, virtuosic vocal writing. CBS performs alongside the talented young singers who make up the Fieri Consort, accompanied by regular partners the Eighteenth Century Orchestra and, for the first time, The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, this should…
Find out more »July 2019
West Cork Festival, Ireland
Fieri will be a resident ensemble at the West Cork Festival in Ireland from the 1st-5th July 2019, with concerts and workshops, including a collaboration with the fabulous Camerata Øresund.
Find out more »Sounds Sublime
Fieri will perform a concert as part of the Sounds Sublime Festival in central London on 20th July. More info to follow.
Find out more »November 2019
Her Father’s Voice – Brighton Early Music Festival
A play with music exploring the early years of composer Barbara Strozzi (b.1619) written and directed by Henry Bauckham. Let’s travel back in time by 400 years to Venice in 1619 - Barbara has just been born to the poet Giulio Strozzi and his mistress Isabella Garzoni. Not long after this in 1625, Francesca Caccini becomes the first woman to have an opera commissioned and performed. Thanks to developments in the previous century, women all over Italy are becoming…
Find out more »December 2019
The Shepherds of Bethlehem – London
Buy tickets here Take a trip to Rome on Christmas Eve in the year 1629, where a performance is taking place in the lavishly decorated Vatican palace. The Shepherds of Bethlehem, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger with a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX). Singers play the roles of shepherds and angels and tell of the nativity story through solos, duets, trios and full choruses. Fieri Consort will present this Christmas play interspersed with instrumental…
Find out more »The Shepherds of Bethlehem – York early music festival
Take a trip to Rome on Christmas Eve in the year 1629, where a performance is taking place in the lavishly decorated Vatican palace. The Shepherds of Bethlehem, an oratorio composed by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger with a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX). Singers play the roles of shepherds and angels and tell of the nativity story through solos, duets, trios and full choruses. Fieri Consort will present this Christmas play interspersed with instrumental and vocal pieces…
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