The team behind Secret Byrd – the immersive concert that astonished audiences at KAF25 – returns to the Festival this year with Death of Gesualdo, another blend of music and theatre that tells a very different tale.
Italian nobleman Carlo Gesualdo is revered among Renaissance composers for his groundbreaking ‘madrigals’: unaccompanied, secular songs for multiple voices. But he is probably most famous for murdering his wife and her lover in bed.
Directed by Bill Barclay, Death of Gesualdo tells the story of the composer’s dramatic life. Performed by celebrated vocal group The Gesualdo Six, with a team of five silent actors playing everyone from a jester to a sinister cardinal, Death of Gesualdo is a sensory feast: dark, macabre, and utterly spellbinding.
Creator and Director Bill Barclay
Performers The Gesualdo Six and six actors
Choreographer Will Tuckett
Costumes Arthur Oliver
Puppet Janni Younge
Book Tickets
| Thu 13 Aug, 9.00p.m. | A:€42. Unreserved:€37. B:€35 | Book Now |
