Vespers of 1610
By Claudio Monteverdi
(Handel and Haydn Society)

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September 19-21, 2003
Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm.  $74, $55, $42.

Monteverdi, the Shakespeare of music, wrote this love song to the Virgin Mary in 1610.  Now, Handel and Hadyn has commissioned the first fully staged production of this monumental work.  Alongside the chorus and orchestra, celebrated Chinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng and a troupe of Asian dancers bring an Eastern view to this intensely personal expression of religious devotion.