
Tue Mar 9 – Wed Mar 10 · 7:30pm
Cantigas: Songs of Mystic Spain
Tue Mar 9 / Wed Mar 10 · 7:30pm
Thirteenth-century Iberia at the court of Alfonso X the Wise, who called himself King of the Three Religions and drew Jewish, Christian and Muslim musicians to it. The programme is built on his collection of songs to the Virgin, with Jewish and Islamic material woven around the Christian songs.