Saturday, 18 julio 2026
19:30 Plaza Colon
El Bureo is a traditional music and dance meeting that brings together performers, professional and amateur singers and dancers in Morella each edition of the festival.
Saturday, 18 julio 2026
22:30 Convent of Saint Francis
Candlelight concert
CdM Academy
The Invitation
Above the Feast, Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634)
The Convit is an adaptation of Il Festino by Adriano Banchieri, a madrigalesque comedy (the dramatic madrigal) in five parts for five voices, set in a carnival party on Lardero Thursday, the first day of carnivals, before dinner. The Modern Delight (modern pleasure) invites the public to the musical banquet, where a series of comic masks and parodies parade: lovers, villanescas, spindle sellers, stracciaroli (rag pickers) in Bolognese dialect and animals in a “bestial counterpoint” (dog, cuckoo, cat and jay). Con 20 numbers, mixes serious madrigals with popular genres (villanelas, ballets, capriccios), satirizing ancient versus modern musical styles and commedia dell'arte characters. Ends with an invitation to dinner, without a complex plot but rather as a “musical game” full of imitations and humor. Bankers, olivetan bolognese monk, publishes it in 1608 like opus 18 in Venice, precursor of baroque musical theater.
