L'Arpeggiata / Christina Pluhar – Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo

Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata perform an early Baroque masterwork by Cavalieri. A musical-dramatic reflection on soul and body, performed with young voices and intense expression. In 1600, Emilio de' Cavalieri created with his Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo one of the first musical-dramatic works in Western music history. Even before the first operas saw the light in Firenze, the public in Rome was swept up in an unprecedented musical narrative. A living dialogue between soul and body, between longing and conscience, between heaven and earth. What must have captivated the ears and hearts of listeners back then still moves us today: a profound reflection on the meaning of existence. Christina Pluhar and her L'Arpeggiata have belonged to the absolute top of the early music world for decades. Their recording of this work in 2004 became a reference. Now Pluhar, at the request of DE SINGEL, returns to this key work and lets this nascent Baroque speak again, together with a new generation of young singers. Freely, sensuously and intensely experienced.