Welcome to the website of La Serenissima

La Serenissima is one of the UK’s leading historical performance ensembles. Directed by Adrian Chandler, the group specializes in the music of Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries. They have performed worldwide to great acclaim and in 2010 won a Gramophone Award. Their eleventh CD, Venice by Night was released in June 2012 and includes world premiere recordings of music by Lotti, Pollarolo, Porta and Veracini alongside better known composers such as Vivaldi and Albinoni ; this CD reached the top ten of the UK classical charts.  Their concert diary for 2013 includes performances of Vivaldi’s first opera Ottone in villa (to celebrate its tercentenary) alongside various performances of their new programme Vivaldi — A Tale of Two Seasons. 

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