Marc’Antonio Ziani La Morte vinta sul Calvario. Sepolcro
Dagmar Šašková mezzo-soprano
Les Traversées Baroques
artistic director Judith Paquier cink
conductor Etienne Meyer
The Venetian Marc’Antonio Ziani (1652 to 1715) spent the last fifteen years of his life at the imperial court in Vienna. He first became famous as a composer of operas, but during the reign of the three Habsburg emperors he wrote one oratorio each year between 1701 and 1711 for performance during Holy Week at the Holy Sepulchre, hence the term sepolcro. Performed by the French ensemble Les Traversées Baroques, led by the zither player Judith Paquier, Ziani’s sepolcro with mezzo-soprano Dagmar Šašková as Faith (La Fede) will be given its Czech premiere.
THE CONCERT TAKES PLACE AT THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST