Wittenberg (dpa/sa) - Concerts, readings, workshops and a musical city walk: Lutherstadt Wittenberg will be the festival venue for Renaissance music for the 17th time. After the opening of the music festival on Friday, performances by the actress Corinna Harfouch, the soprano Emma Kirkby, the viol player Hille Perl and the Graz baroque ensemble Ārt House are on the program until September 25th. The motto is "Myths and Fairy Tales". There should be 13 events at historical locations, it said.
According to the organizers, guests from all over the world are expected. "Stories from Italy, the Middle and Near East and Antiquity" would be presented. At the opening on September 16th and 17th, for the first time in the history of the festival, there will be a baroque opera performed in the open air. According to the information, the cheerful opera "The Charlatan - Il Ciarlatano" by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) will be staged, the performance of which will be supplemented and loosened up with elements of street theater. In the courtyard of the town hall there is music, magic and acrobatics.
Harfouch reads from "Die Schön Magelona" in the Old Town Hall and is accompanied by music. According to the organizers, the music festival will end with a historical dance ball and the "Pentameron" concert, which will be performed by the Oni Wytars ensemble.
The period of Renaissance music is around the 15th and 16th centuries. Typical is the polyphonic vocal music and the lute as an instrument.
