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A new multi dimensional fusion of music, film and drama combining live music by Josquin, Monteverdi and Grandi with an imaginative and sensual script by Fiona Mackie.
    

An earthquake disturbs the ancient city of Ferrara. A young woman, on the eve of her forced enclosure, dreams an erotic dream of forbidden fruit and fallen men...of rapture and ruin, pleasure and pain, love, loss and Lucrezia Borgia. Fallen charts Camilla Faà Gonzaga's turbulent journey towards the veil, evocatively underscored with the ethereal and disembodied voices of cloistered women.

"Dressed in nuns' habits and just visible behind a gossamer screen, the women of Musica Secreta and Celestial Sirens sang passionate love songs to Christ.... The singing was spine tingling, the casting superb."
Brighton Argus (review of first performance, October 2006)

!!STOP PRESS!!

Recording available September 2007

Musica Secreta have recently recorded the music from Fallen, together with the complete Motetti a cinque voci (1614) by Alessandro Grandi - to be released on the Divine Arts label. The CD release will coincide with the performance at the South Bank Early Music Weekend.

Future performances

  • Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Early Music Weekend, 14 September 2007, 7.30pm.
  • Djanogly Theatre, Nottingham, February 27 2008.
More info and booking details to follow...