Monteverdi: Prime parole, seconda musica
Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Saint Margaret’s Anglican Church (160 Ethelbert St.)
Dead of Winter at the Winnipeg Baroque Festival featuring Fidem in Fidibus
Music’s world order underwent a seismic change in early 17th C. Italy. Gone was the complex choral polyphony of the last 150 years, replaced by a new approach, where composers worked to convey the visceral drama of the text. Whole new musical forms were developed and opera was born. Monteverdi was the first great master of this new style. Along with contemporaries like Francesca Caccini and Salamono de Rossi, he forever changed the way music would reach audiences. The power of storytelling, grounded in dramatic text, was the new world order. First words, then music!
About Fidem in Fidibus
An ensemble formed in the 2024 Winnipeg Baroque Festival, Fidem in Fidibus (Faith in Fiddles) is a major collaboration between Manitoba soloists on period instruments. The group consists of violinists Momoko Matsumura and Tatiana Friesen, keyboardist Theresa Thordarson, guitarist John Himes, cellist Nathaniel Froese, and violist Jennifer Thiessen.
