HAPPY BIRTHDAY Antonio Vivaldi, born on 4 March 1678!
Celebrate the occasion with the opening of his ever-popular Gloria, written for the orphans of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. Watch the complete work, along with the ACC’s premiere of a the first work ever to be performed in modern times by one of the orphans of the Pietà – Agatha’s Cantata.
Click below to watch ‘Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agatha’s Cantata’
Australian Chamber choir
directed by Lucien Fischer
arranged for five voices by Elizabeth Anderson
The ACC performed this arrangement as part of its Encores program in November 2024, and have recorded it alongside a similar (and newer) arrangement from Handel’s Fireworks, to be released on their forthcoming Encores album.
Live streamed in partnership with the
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
from Mandeville Hall Toorak
on Sunday 15 November 2020
sound and video by 5stream