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Sacred music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Work composed in 1736.<div> Nina Spinosi | soprano</div><div> Marie-Nicole Lemieux | contralto</div><div> Together Matheus</div><div> Jean-Christophe Spinosi | direction</div><div><br></div><div> In the first part of the program</div><div><br></div><div> Vivaldi Laudate pueri Dominum RV 600</div><div><br></div><div> Written in Italy in the 13th century, the Stabat Mater is one of the most famous sequences in the Catholic liturgy. This long Latin poem of sixty lines describes the Virgin Mary's suffering at the foot of the cross, where she witnesses the death of her son. From the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, composers set this moving text to music. But it was during the Baroque period that the figure of the Virgin Mary became an even more important object of devotion, and from then on, the Stabat Mater became an essential element of sacred music. The most famous setting remains that of Pergolesi, a composer who died at the age of 26, which gave rise to a legend comparable to that of Mozart's Requiem.</div><div><br></div><div> Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Production</div><div><br></div><div> Sung in Latin, with French/English surtitles</div>