The Baroque Music Foundationwww.baroquefoundation.org

Vivaldi, Venice and Turin – A Baroque Tour April 19 – 26, 2017

Susan Orlando, tour leader and music lecturerRichard Sammons, architectural lecturer

This intimate, private cultural tour combines an exploration of Italian Baroque architecture with the more specific exploration of one of Italy’s most renown Baroque composers, Antonio Vivaldi. Guided by experts in both fields, participants will have a unique opportunity to visit rare sites, to hear little known music and to acquire a solid understanding of both subjects. Though Turin and Venice will be our principal venues, we will take advantage of our trip across northern Italy to stop in Vicenza and take in Andrea Palladio’s magnificent Teatro Olimpico as well as some of his famous villas.

The northern city of TURIN, was once home to Italy’s royal family and boasts some of the country’s finest Baroque architecture. Coincidentally, its National Library houses a music collection of inestimable value: Antonio Vivaldi’s private library – over 450 music manuscripts in the master’s hand, most of it unknown until the beginning of this century. We will have the rare opportunity to see these works as well as to hear a fully staged Vivaldi opera, L’Incoronazione di Dario, under the baton of noted Baroque music specialist Ottavio Dantone and an outstanding cast of singers in Turin’s opera hall, the Teatro Reale. We will join conductor Dantone and some of the

case for a meal following the performance. While in Turin we will explore the city’s spectacular Baroque architecture, which has been impeccably preserved, and the many restored royal palaces that surround the city. In addition, we will have the pleasure of indulging in several Piemontese meals in 18th-century venues, visiting the private and very prestigious, 18th-century Whist Club and much more.

VENICE Antonio Vivaldi, one of Venice’s most famous composers, worked and lived most of his life in Venice, the magical city of canals. Baroque music specialist Susan Orlando invites us on a tour of Vivaldi’s Venice, walking the paths he took daily and seeing a hidden side of the city, the palaces and music rooms where he and many others performed before

royalty. We will learn about the opera theatres which proliferated in that period and the foundling hospitals whose talented young charges competed to present the finest concerts available in the city, concerts which were famous throughout Europe. We will tour Venice’s historic La Fenice opera house and follow architect Richard Sammons as he leads us to a unique selection of architectural venues. Our tour will end with dinner in a private palace on the Grand Canal.

Accomodations

TURIN – 19, 20, 21, 22 April

Principi di Piemonte in the historic center, 5-star

VICENZA – 23 April

G Boutique Hotel – Vicenza, 3-star

VENICE – 24 - 25 April

Ca’ Sagredo A magnificent 18th-century palace on the Grand Canal, 5-star

ITINERARY

Wednesday, 19 April - TurinMorning arrival Afternoon: Egyptian Museum for those interested

Dinner: Del Cambio 18th-century restaurant

Thursday, 20 April - TurinMorning: Visit to the Vivaldi Manuscripts Exhibition at the National Library Afternoon: Architectural tour Exclusive visit to the 18th-century Whist Club Dinner at writer Andrea Lee’s 17th-century home in the hills

Friday, 21 April – TurinMorning – Architectural tourEvening – Teatro Regio for performance of Vivaldi’s opera L’Incoronazione di DarioDinner with conductor Ottavio Dantone and some of the singers

Saturday, 22 April - Vicenza Morning: Train to Vicenza Afternoon: Palladio’s villas

Sunday, 23 April - Venice Morning: Vicenza center - Teatro OlimpicoAfternoon: Train to Venice and beginning of Vivaldi tour

Monday, 24 April - VeniceMorning: Vivaldi’s Venice continuedAfternoon: Visit La Fenice, Ca Resonica, Palazzo GrimaniDinner: Palazzo Bernardo Nani on the Grand Canal, host Countess Elisabetta Lucheschi

Tuesday, 25 April - VeniceMorning: Architectural tourAfternoon: Museums

Wednesday, 26 April - Departure

The music room – Ca’ Sagredo, Venice

Tour Includes: 7 days of expert-guided tours, 7 nights hotel accommodation in 5-star luxury hotels, breakfasts, 7 lunches and 7 dinners, transportation to and from all events as well as entrances to all concerts and museums.

Land cost for the tour is $3,500 per person with hotel (single supplement $500). This includes all meals, transportation costs, admission fees to museums and concerts and

local taxes. It does not include plane fare to and from Italy.

For additional information or queries and to confirm your participation contact susan@baroquefoundation.org or call:

tel. +33 6 18 16 21 35 (Paris, France) or (646) 374 2221 (U.S.A.).

Confirmations for the April tour must be received by 30 January, 2017.

About the tour leaders

SUSAN ORLANDO is a musician and music historian who since 2002 has directed the Vivaldi Edition recording project for Naive records in Paris. To date no less than 54 cds have been released in the series, including fifteen full-scale operas. Susan has participated in numerous documentaries on Antonio Vivaldi and has been seen and heard on television and radio in both Europe and the United States. In 2011 she co-produced a month-long Vivaldi festival at, and with, the Château de Versailles in France.   In-depth articles on the Vivaldi Edition have appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, La Stampa, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone, to name only a few. In 2014 she co-founded The Baroque Music Foundation in New York to help preserve through recordings many of the 17th and 18th-century Italian music masterpieces which are in manuscript form and lay dormant in archives to this day.  These works embody a large part of our aural cultural heritage and one which, if not preserved through recordings, may well be lost forever.

Architect RICHARD SAMMONS has a rich background in traditional period design and is an internationally recognized expert in the field of architectural proportion, having taught at The Prince of Wales’ Institute of Architecture in London, Pratt Institute in New York and The University of Notre Dame in Rome. His contributions include the foreword of the book "The Theory of Mouldings" by C. Howard Walker, and collaboration on the recently published book, "Get Your House Right". Mr. Sammons began his career in

Venice, Italy, with the offices of Antonio Foscari and then with David Anthony Easton in New York. He is a founding director of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, a board member of the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation, and the Merchant's House Museum. Richard serves as Design Director of his New York firm Fairfax & Sammons.