Concerto di Margherita Il Gioco della cieca (Blind Man’s Bluff) (ITALY)

Taking as an inspiration the vocal and instrumental works of late 16th and early 17th century Italian composers such as deWert, Caccini, Kapsberger and d’India, the ensemble Concerto di Margherita presents a fable of an archetypal Lover, caught, like Amaryllis in Guarini’s play, in a cruel game of Blind Man’s Bluff. Playing with sight and visibility throughout the concert, the musicians, who all sing and accompany themselves on their instrument, take the audience with them on the Lover’s path: born in Arcadian innocence, blinded and deluded by love, lost and disoriented in darkness and finding solace in obscurity.