Theatre, City Hall
February 26, 7.45pm
Nightmare in Venice: A Baroque Fantasy - which promises to be anything but a nightmare - may be your last chance to see Red Priest if you weren't lucky enough to get tickets to their other sell-out shows.
The Baroque quartet from Britain comprises Piers Adams (recorders), Julia Bishop (violin), Angela East (cello) and Howard Beach (harpsichord). Named for Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi - the red-haired priest - the ensemble is known for its swashbuckling virtuosity, creative re-composition, emotion and compelling stagecraft.
This Sunday's performance was added after its other concerts - Carnival of the Seasons tomorrow and on Sunday afternoon, and Saturday's Nightmare in Venice: A Baroque Fantasy - sold out. The programme features Vivaldi's The Nightmare Concerto (La Notte) in G minor, RV 439, as well as pieces by Giovanni Paulo Cima, Robert Johnson, Henry Purcell and Johann Sebastian Bach. The group has done all the musical arrangements.
Adams says Venice was long associated with magic and alchemy, and its position as a trading gateway to the east meant it became a melting pot of western mystical traditions and Islamic and Oriental culture.
