Video of the Day: GOOSED! A short film from I FAGIOLINI
Monday, December 26, 2022
The vocal ensemble performs the 16th century masque by Giovanni Croce
Video of the Day is from British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, who perform in a short music film, GOOSED, based on Giovanni Croce's Venetian masque IL GIOCA DELL’OCA (1595).
Published by Giovanni Croce in Venice, 1595, the masque shows six characters playing The Game of The Goose - a board game still popular in much of Europe. Written by Timothy Knapman and produced by Polyphonic Films, GOOSED! transposes the action in to a film farce set in a 1930s English manor house, complete with inept coppers and a scheming thief: A forlorn Count is having a soirée at his country seat but is surprised by some uninvited guests. They play The Game of The Goose.
I Fagiolini is a British vocal ensemble specialising in early music and contemporary music.