The core of the piece is Monteverdi’s music, written at the dawn of the operatic medium, and not often heard in Philadelphia.
The music’s highly evolved sense of narrative drama arrives in discrete modules, often explosive ones, that are selflessly fashioned to the needs of the text. It turns melodic, conversational, and highly rhetorical.
It’s pared-down and emotionally direct but has a powerful and visceral language of its own. Originally published in a book of madrigals ,The musical’s directness comes most alive with charismatic voices, one being of the now-retired-from-singing Philadelphia-based soprano Julianne Baird. The 47-year old Suleyman, with a statuesque presence and distinctive Bantamweight tenor voice, brings Monteverdi’s performance to another level.
On Saturday, he sang the music as if he wrote it, accompanied by a seven-member group of period instruments under the direction of Julie Andrijeski. Just as notable, vocally, was the rich-voiced soprano Raha Mirzadegan in the smaller role of Clorinda. Bass-baritone John Taylor Ward more than held his own amid these strong personalities in his somewhat thankless narrative function.Unholy Wars plays Sept. 27, 30 and Oct. 1, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S Broad St. Tickets $50-$120.
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