Di(stanze)

Di(stanze) is a show, which the RimeSparse company - made up of four singers, actor Massimiliano Serino and actress and director Elisa Vitiello - dedicates to the Italian secular music of the early 17th century, in a creative interweaving of madrigal and prose, ancient and contemporary, sung voice and spoken voice.

At the center is Pomponio Nenna's Primo Libro de' Madrigali a quattro voci (First Book of Madrigals for Four Voices), consisting of twenty-one short masterpieces written in the madrigal style of the Neapolitan area. 

Dialogue between poetic rooms and rooms of our house by Elisa Vitiello and Filippo Capobianco;
Music from the First Book of Madrigals for Four Voices by Pomponio Nenna

RIME SPARSE
Marta Redaelli, soprano
Silvia Capobianco, alto
Roberto Rilievi, tenor
Matteo Bellotto , bass
Massimiliano Serino, actor
Elisa Vitiello, actress and director

Pomponio Nenna
1556-1618
from Il Primo Libro de' Madrigali a quattro voci, Napoli, 1618
II. Vivo mio sol, tu giri
III. Vedrò il mio sol
IV. O mia luce, o mia gioia
VI. Se la doglia e ’l martire
XII. Voi negate ch’io v’ami
IX. Il tuo dolce candore
I. Ahi dispietata e cruda
X. Se gli occhi vostr’io miro
XVII. Asciugate i begli occhi
XVI. Sospir che dal bel petto
XV. Qual fora, o donna, un dolce ohimè d’amore
V. Eccomi pronta ai baci
XVIII. S’io taccio il duol s’avanza
XIX. La mia doglia s’avanza
XX. Ripiglia Ergasto
XXI. Aure liete e soavi