• Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: Music and Dance at the Ballroom

    Government House Ballroom, Perth 13 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Locatelli’s Il Pianto d’Arianna (the weeping of Ariadne) uses the fragment of a lost Monteverdi opera telling of Theseus’s abandonment of Ariadne. A solo violin sobs on Ariadne’s behalf. The final Largo, strewn with silences, eventually twists into the hopeful smile of a major key. A contemporary of Mozart and…