MUSICA SEGRETA
Alexey Zelensky’s Gesualdo project
A semi-private concert in Adam's Palace
Musica Segreta
A semi-private concert in Adam's Palace
18 Dec 18:00
Brody Sándor utca 4, Budapest
Hungarian Language School
Register by +36 20 213 91 76
A donation of 2000 HUF to the musicians is kindly welcome at the entrance. We kindly ask you to cancel the booking once you cannot come
| About the concert In 1611, forty-five-year-old composer Carlo Gesualdo already knew that his life was ending. Self-isolated for 15 years in a castle atop a foggy hill in southern Italy, he prepared two books of madrigals which he kept secret for many years. Strikingly dark, chromatic, and full of longing and pain, the music offers a glimpse into Gesualdo's troubled existence. Into a life littered with murder and witchcraft. Into an obsessive mind pushing the boundaries of composition in ways, no one else would dare for the next 300 years. |
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On the 18th of December, we are revisiting Moro, lasso, al mio duolo through improvisation. In Palazzo Adam. In secret. Alexey Zelensky / Michael Lanin / Viktor Kapusi / Gergely Kovács The artwork by Oksana Devochkina. |
| About the art-work Homage to Roy Lichtenstein, covering the event, created by artist Oksana Devochkina. Her piece rethinks the legacy and sacralizes eroticism in art and her work. The original piece, The Ring (Engagement), encapsulates all of the major themes of the Roy's most acclaimed body of work. Lichtenstein created a series of paintings based on scenes from love and war comic books. The Ring (Engagement) was created at a time of emotional flux for the artist. Lichtenstein was in the midst of divorcing his first wife but was also in the early throws of romance with a graduate student he lived with while negotiating his divorce. This tension is evident in a painting that both depicts a joyful and life-changing event. |
| About the building Ádám Károly, every gentleman's favourite lingerie merchant, chose a piece of land at the beginning of the street. His wife commissioned a replica of the palaces of Venice from the most sought-after private architect of the era — Antal Wéber. The house had everything a magnate could need: 31 rooms, four bathrooms, three kitchens, stables, a coachhouse and plenty of frescoes covering the interiors and the loggia. The fact that her brother was Budapest’s most famous fresco painter, Károly Lotz was the icing on the cake. In recent years, his works here have been restored, allowing the viewer to admire the depiction of the cycles of life, joy, love and the arts behind the balcony columns. The writer after whom the street was eventually named, Sándor Bródy, known as the Hungarian Émile Zola, lived at number 18-20. |
