I Fagiolini: Monteverdi Vespers
I Fagiolini 40th Anniversary Residency
Memory Unwrapped
| Claudio Monteverdi | 1610 Vespers |
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| I Fagiolini | |
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| The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble | |
| Robert Hollingworth | director |
I Fagiolini live – featuring star Monteverdi singers, following the group’s new recording of this iconic work with cornetts, sackbutts, baroque strings and more.
I Fagiolini’s performance as part of Memory Unwrapped is a launch concert for their new recording of Monteverdi’s iconic 1610 Vespers, which is also set to be released in September 2026. I Fagiolini’s iconic version (and new recording) strips back this great work to reveal new elements of its sonic glory. Raw Italian power, utterly intimate miniatures, full of filigree ornamentation and astounding emotional depth. The last time I Fagiolini performed the Vespers at Kings Place it was declared ‘Off-the-charts brilliant … utterly enthralling’ (Arts Desk).
Don’t miss this celebrated group performing it live in their 40th anniversary year featuring renowned Monteverdi singers such as Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Long, Julia Doyle, Ciara Hendrick and more. Performing alongside the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, it will be a feast for the senses.
This event will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
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Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
I Fagiolini
In an age of AI, I Fagiolini is a hand-painted original – the group celebrates its 40th anniversary in 26/27. The ensemble’s innovative work is now as much online as it is live, including collaborative cross-art projects on stages around the world and short (multi award-winning) music videos with Polyphonic Films. Search: Goosed! and The Stag Hunt. The group’s YouTube series, SingTheScore, combines serious analysis with off-the-wall humour while Choral Chihuahua, presented by Robert Hollingworth, Nicholas Mulroy and Eamonn Dougan, is the top UK choral podcast and is now in its twelfth season.
Signature projects include the fully immersive The Full Monteverdi and Betrayal (dir. John La Bouchardière); Tallis in Wonderland (with live and recorded voice); Simunye, the South African collaboration; and How Like An Angel with Australian contemporary circus company CIRCA for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and also at Perth International Arts Festival, Lincoln Center, New York and in cathedrals across Europe. The group’s French 20th-century Amuse-Bouche included the first recording of Jean Francaix’s 12-voice Ode a la Gastronomie (also on YouTube). Monteverdi programmes from L’Orfeo (dir. Tom Guthrie) with masks and puppets and 1610 & 1641 Vespers; and Leonardo – Shaping The Invisible, with Prof. Martin Kemp and projections of Leonardo’s art and designs.
I Fagiolini’s large-scale recording projects include world premieres of Striggio Mass in 40 Parts, Viadana Vespers, works by the Gabrielis and now Benevoli’s Colossal Baroque multi-choir masses. Consort premieres include Byrd, Tomkins, Croce, Striggio, Francaix, Milhaud and Joanna Marsh. I Fagiolini is an Associate Ensemble at the University of York and celebrates its 40th anniversary with, We’re not Dead Yet, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (including a new album release), Purcell Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi L’Orfeo!
Robert Hollingworth
Robert founded I Fagiolini in 1986 to share his love of vocal ensemble music. He has since spent much of his life thinking about how audiences receive music, instead of just how performers want to deliver it. Aside from his work with I Fagiolini, he is a conductor, broadcaster, educator, editor and festival director. Robert has conducted orchestras including the English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, BBC Concert Orchestra, Irish Baroque Orchestra and directed some of the world’s finest chamber choirs including Accentus, NDR Chor, RIAS Kammerchor (Berlin), Netherlands Chamber Choir, National Chamber Choir of Ireland, BBC Singers, Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Capella Cracoviensis. Robert is Artistic Director for Stour Music Festival and the new ‘Fairest Isle Festival’ on the Isle of Wight, as well as of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Monteverdi / Roustom production of Clorinda Agonistes.
At the University of York, Robert directs two choirs and the UK’s only MA in Solo-Voice Ensemble Singing, now in its 13th year. He has written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and more recently created over 30 episodes of the YouTube choral series SingTheScore as well as co-founding and presenting the UK’s top choral podcast series, Choral Chihuahua, with Eamonn Dougan and Nicholas Mulroy which is now in its twelfth season. Both series’ are made by Polyphonic Films (Greg Browning).
Reviews
‘Off-the-charts brilliant … utterly enthralling’ The Arts Desk
‘a performance packed with riches… the shivery thrill of being totally immersed.’ The Times
‘a defining performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers… Duo Seraphim was frankly astonishing’ Bachtrack
‘In such sure hands (and throats) as these, Monteverdi’s psalm-settings reach their fullest capacity to enchant and astonish.’ Gramophone