«Clitemnestra, o il crimine degli affetti» with Lucia Mascino and the Cappella Musicale of Villa Medici: Tuesday, November 10, 2026

In short. On Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Villa Medici (Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, 00187 Rome) hosts «Clitemnestra, o il crimine degli affetti» (Clytemnestra, or the Crime of Affections), with Lucia Mascino as narrator and the Cappella Musicale of Villa Medici.

Illustrazione ad acquerello di una sala da concerto con pianoforte a coda, leggii per archi e pubblico di spalle

Illustrazione generata con intelligenza artificiale: non è una fotografia di Villa Medici né dell'evento.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Villa Medici (Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, 00187 Rome) hosts «Clitemnestra, o il crimine degli affetti» (Clytemnestra, or the Crime of Affections), with Lucia Mascino as narrator and the Cappella Musicale of Villa Medici. The show has two sittings the same evening and is part of the «I Concerti nel Parco» series.

Clitemnestra: watercolor illustration of a concert hall with a piano, strings and an audience seen from behind — AI-generated illustration: not a photograph of Villa Medici or of the event.

Updated November 6, 2026.

The event

The monologue is drawn from Marguerite Yourcenar's «Fuochi» (Fires), written in 1935 and republished at the author's wish, almost unchanged, in 1957. In the proposed dramatization, antiquity and the legend of Clytemnestra cross time through the languages in which they are told: the narrative, the archaic language of Greek songs, that of the Aegean coasts, the language of twentieth-century art music and the Monteverdian one that invented melodrama, gathered into a single metaphysical picture.

The show follows Yourcenar's own indications: each performer's path starts from the careful use of historicized languages to arrive, each time, at the essence of a complex, fervent emotion.

On stage are Lucia Mascino as narrator and the Cappella Musicale of Villa Medici, with Marta Pacifici, mezzo-soprano, Alicija Szydlowska, cello, Fabio Marconetti, harpsichord, and Riccardo Martinini conducting. It is a co-production by Cimamusic, Arteducazione and I Concerti nel Parco, in collaboration with the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici.

Where it takes place: Villa Medici

Villa Medici, home of the French Academy in Rome, overlooks the Pincio from the top of the Trinità dei Monti steps. Its autumn exhibitions are described on the Picabia, Morellet and Sole Nero page; for the area see the Pincio and Trinità dei Monti.