“The Rhetoric of Passion- Eloquence in the Golden Age of Italian Music”,  William Christie and Les Arts Florissants

This event is being brought to you by the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, the Perth International Arts Festival, and the School of Music at The University of Western Australia.

Date: Friday 6 March 2015
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, The University of Western Australia
Tickets: $35 here

After more than a decade, world-renowned musical director William Christie returns to Australia with the phenomenal Les Arts Florissants and his selection of the world’s most talented solo singers in Le Jardin des Voix (The Garden of Voices).

He will present a lecture-recital at The University of Western Australia, focusing on emotions were conceived by Italian composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For 35 years, Les Arts Florissants and William Christie have been taking audiences on journeys of discovery into the past and recreating the glorious sounds of instruments from the Baroque period. Les Arts Florissants has been a pioneering force in the revival of this repertoire – unearthing treasures that hadn’t been heard for hundreds of years.

Under the leadership of William Christie, the ensemble has toured the world, created a significant discography, and collaborated with performers and theatre directors of distinction.

Free Study Day: “The Passionate Arts in the Early Modern Period”

This day includes lectures, workshops and activities in Early Modern power politics, music, dance, the art of rhetoric, visual and material culture.

Date: Friday 6 March 2015
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, The University of Western Australia
Please book: emotions@uwa.edu.au (limited places), Tel: +61 8 6488 3858

Speakers include Professor Susan Broomhall (UWA) on the House of Medici, David Irving (ANU) on the Sun King, Louis XIV, and Alan Maddox (Uni Syd) on Rhetoric in Early Modern Italy.

More information here.