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Queen Elizabeth 1st with Armada Galleon (from Shipwrecked)

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Category: Ensembles

Historically informed, early music performances, juxtaposed with dramatic, contemporary staging and theatrics are the hallmarks of eX. Often controversial and always exciting, eX creates virtuosic, cutting edge performances of music from 11th to 18th century .

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Biography

Since its founding in 2006 by singer Caitríona O’Leary and director/producer Eric Fraad, eX has established itself as one of Europe’s most innovative and exciting early music ensembles. Based in Dublin, eX specializes in unique staged concerts and full productions that bring a new dynamic and dimension to the presentation of music from the Middle Ages through the Baroque. The musicians that comprise eX include many of the world’s most celebrated and emerging early music specialists who work together with teams of renowned theatre and visual artists.

 

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Reviews

Motion of the Heart

 

…this project was fashioned after a seventeenth-century masque, which originally glorified a monarch or some other highVirgin Mary with seven swords in heart worthy. The director [Eric Fraad] explained that this form of entertainment fell into obscurity after Charles I lost his head, adding: “we’re bringing it back”.  Some might argue that the masque is no more because its better known siblings (the opera, oratorio and ballet) have stood the test of time – but it was interesting and exciting nonetheless, to experience such a rarefied entertainment with top-notch singers and actors and production values (including opulent period costumes).

John White, Irish Theatre Magazine 11.12.2009



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Shipwrecked - to be released in 2010

 

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MOTION OF THE HEART AN OCCULT 17TH CENTURY MASQUE

Following its critically acclaimed production Shipwrecked, in September 2009 innovative Irish early music ensemble, eX presents Motion of the Heart an occult masque that explores the romantic, spiritual, anatomical and aesthetic qualities and characteristics of the human heart. The production is being made possible by generous grants from the Arts Council, the Goethe Institut and is presented in association with the National Gallery of Ireland.

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