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Il Decamerone

S Styriarte

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Lust and quarantine: Karl Markovic blickt ernst und direkt in die Kamera Karl Markovics reads the most tingling episodes from Boccaccio's "Decamerone", and Michael Posch's Ensemble Unicorn bei der Styriarte 2021 vor rotem Hintergrund The Unicorn Ensemble takes us into the sound world of the Florentine Renaissance.

Programme

What to expect:

Ballatae, Madrigale and Estampien from the time of Giovanni Boccaccio, a.o. from Johannes Ciconia, Giovanni da Firenze, Magister Piero, Codex Rossi, Codex Faenza, Codex Torinoand from the London Manuskript

Reading from the novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio’s “Il Decamerone”

Cast

Karl Markovics

Karl Markovic blickt ernst und direkt in die Kamera
© Werner Kmetitsch
Actor

The superstar of national cinema fascinates his audience with ever new facets. His career, which began in 1994 with "Kommissar Rex" and was crowned in 2008 with the leading role in the Oscar-winning Ruzowitzy film "The Counterfeiters", he now also continues as a stage director. Styriarte loves his incredibly impressive guest performances as a reader.

The Unicorn Ensemble

Ensemble Unicorn bei der Styriarte 2021 vor rotem Hintergrund
© Nicola Milatovic
Ensemble

The wondrous world of sound of this ensemble, founded in 1991, stretches from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance. At its core, it consists of top-class specialists in long-forgotten playing styles and musical traditions who bring their profound knowledge of the ancient to life with irrepressible joy in playing and the highest art of improvisation.

Michael Posch

Michael Posch spielt Blockflöte
© Nikola Milatovic
recorders

The Carinthian, trained in Vienna and Trossingen, belongs to the first squad of Austrian recorder players. With a variety of ensembles, including the Concentus Musicus, he plays especially the main baroque field of recorder literature, but has also rendered outstanding services to modern music. Tours and guest performances take him halfway around the world.

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Content

Florence, 1348:

A “jolly group” of three men and seven women is fleeing the plague. They spend ten days in a beautiful garden in Fiesole, telling ten stories about love each day. The Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio recounted those 100 love stories in his Decamerone, the “book of the ten days”. This most famous collection of novellas from the early Renaissance is a perfect anthology of love’s lust and betrayal, grotesque misunderstandings and witty intrigues. Famous Austrian actor Karl Markovics reads the most ribald excerpts from the Decamerone, while the Unicorn Ensemble provides the sublime sound of Trecento music.

The performance lasts 60-70 minutes without an interval.

Prices: EUR 22 / 44 / 66

Discounts:

  • Ö1 Clubmembers: 10% off for two tickets

  • Ö1 Intro: the "Kultüröffner" for everybody younger than 30

  • U27: 50% off for people younger than 27

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