CANTICLES | BRITTEN

Piccolo Teatro Grassi / at 04:00 PM

Zeger (c) Berger - Lauritano - Swensen (c) Michele Monasta - Maffeis

Abraham raising the knife on his son, the bombings of London, a sacred love of the Seventeenth Century: Britten invents, with the Canticles, small spiritual dramas, intense and unconventional. Then come the lullabies – five, with lyrics by Blake and Burns. From one extreme to the other, all for voice and piano, though.