Utrecht | Cappella Romana

Watch “Venice in the East” at the Utrecht Early Music Festival

Watch a video from Cappella Romana’s 2016 Venice in the East performance at the Utrecht Early Music Festival! April 27-29, 2018, Italy meets Greece in Venice in the East, a sonic exploration of the Greek Islands when they were ruled by the Venetian empire. Cappella Romana is reviving Renaissance music from Crete, celebrating the island’s…

March 22, 2018

Venice in the North Previews

Preview works on this weekend’s (April 28-30) Venice in the North program with videos from Cappella Romana performances at the 2016 Utrecht Early Music Festival: Venice in the North Cappella Romana first performed “Venice in the North” at the 2016 Early Music Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands). Make your April complete with this remarkable music! An…

April 25, 2017

Il Giornale Della Musica Reviews Utrecht Early Music Festival

An Utrecht Early Music Festival mention for Cappella Romana in the Italian outlet Il Giornale Della Musica: “The connection of the Republic of Venice with the Adriatic, and more generally, Mediterranean, world was well represented by an interesting concert of the ensemble Cappella Romana, directed by Alexander Lingas, centered on the presence of the liturgical…

September 8, 2016

Utrecht Early Music Festival Review

“For centuries Venice was politically and economically one of the most important centers of Europe, which led to a multitude of relations, for instance to the East and its dominant Byzantine culture. Due to political developments residents of eastern areas also settled in Venice, including Greeks who took their own version of the Christian faith…

September 7, 2016