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Sunday, July 5, 2026 – 4:00 p.m.
Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre
1655 Base-de-Roc Blvd
Joliette, J6E 0L2
As part of the Festival de Lanaudière Open House Day, the public is invited on a vocal journey into the heart of Renaissance Italy. Through madrigals, villanelle, and early airs by Verdelot, Willaert, Arcadelt, Marenzio, Lasso, and Peri, the voices bring to life a world of poetry, romantic longing, humour, and refinement.
Presented outdoors on the grounds of the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre, this concert offers an intimate and luminous encounter with early music. The singers will perform in close proximity to the audience, transforming the space into a living stage and offering a sensitive, accessible, and unexpected way to discover this repertoire.
Between the finesse of the texts, the beauty of the harmonies, and the warm spirit of Italian song, Comme en Italie! promises a summery moment of closeness, carried by the pleasure of voices and the timeless charm of the Renaissance.
Heinrich Isaac (v.1450-1517)
Ne più bella di queste ne più degnia (I-Fn MS Banco Rari 337, Florence, 1520)
Philippe Verdelot (1480-1530)
Si suave è l’inghanno (GB-SC Recusant Library, Florence, 1526-29)
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)
Era il bel viso suo
Adrian Willaert (1490-1562)
Sempre mi ride sta (Canzoni villanesche alla napolitana, Venise, 1545)
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Giaches de Wert
Chi salirà per me (Venise, 1557-58)
Giaches de Wert
Dolci spoglie felic’e care tanto (Madrigali a 4 voci, Libro primo, Venise, 1561)
Jacob Arcadelt (1507-1568)
Il bianco e dolce cigno (Madrigali a 4 voci, Libro primo, Venise, 1539)
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
Matona mia cara (Libro de villanelle, moresche, et altre canzoni, Paris, 1581)
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Heinrich Isaac
Fammi una gratia, Amore
Adrian Willaert
Un giorno mi pregò una vedovella (Canzoni villanesche alla napolitana, Venise, 1545)
Francesco Silvestrino (fl.1540-1550)
O Dio se vede chiaro
Adrian Willaert
Vecchie letrose (Canzoni villanesche alla napolitana, Venise, 1545)
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Philippe Verdelot
O dolce nocte (GB-SC Recusant Library, Florence, 1526-29)
Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
Zefiro torno e’l bel tempo rimena; Ma per me lasso (Madrigali a 6 voci, Libro primo, Venise, 1581)
Adrian Willaert
Madonna mia famme bon’offerta (Canzoni villanesche alla napolitana, Venise, 1545)
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Philippe VerdelotChi non fa prova, Amore (GB-SC Recusant Library, Florence, 1526-29)
Luca Marenzio
Piango, che amor con disusato oltraggio (Madrigali a quattro, cinque et sei voci, Libro primo, Venise, 1588)
Jacopo Peri (1561-1633)
L’Euridice : Biond’arcer, che d’alto monte (Le musiche sopra l’Euridice, Florence, 1600)
Rebecca Dowd-Lekx, soprano
Marie-Andrée Mathieu, mezzo soprano
Michiel Schrey, tenor
Pierre-Étienne Bergeron, bass
Madeleine Owen, lute
Michiel Schrey, artistic direction