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Bolzano Festival Bozen 2026 - Lagrime di San Pietro

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About the event

Lagrime di San Pietro, the polyphonic masterpiece by Orlando di Lasso, will resound beneath the vaults of the Old Parish Church of Gries, a small gem of Bolzano's Gothic architecture, performed by the Swiss vocal ensemble Voces Suaves.



The work is compelling for at least two reasons: first, because a score so deeply steeped in devotion was completed only three weeks before the composer's death in 1594; and above all, because although it may represent the summit of Renaissance polyphony, it arrives at the very end of an era. Within just a few years, the first forms of Baroque music would emerge, with accompanied monody, basso continuo and the concertante style. A work steeped in melancholy and symbolism, composed in 1595.



Programme – Orlando di Lasso, Lagrime di San Pietro (1595):



I. Il magnanimo Pietro



II. Ma gli archi



III. Tre volte haveva



IV. Qual a l'incontro



V. Giovane donna



VI. Così talhor



VII. Ogni occhio del signor



VIII. Nessun fedel trovai



IX. Chi ad una ad una



X. Come falda di neve



XI. E non fu il pianto suo



XII. Quel volto



XIII. Veduto il miser



XIV. E vago d'incontrar



XV. Vattene vita va!



XVI. O vita troppo rea



XVII. A quanti già felici



XVIII. Non trovava mia fé



XIX. Queste opre e più



XX. Negando il mio signor



XXI. Vide homo



Admission by free donation