Dear gang, in the Google Video address http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7054543506483973843 you'll find a real drama, actually a madrigal comedy (and especially without too many pixels ;-)
My explanation there says: This staged version of Adriano Banchieri's Barca di Venetia per Padova was performed by ensemble Köyhät Ritarit (Poor Knights) in the Ritarihuone (old House of Finnish Nobility) in spring 2000. Nearly all of the pieces are included - the length of the video is little less than 30 minutes. The short speeches between the pieces are in Finnish, but songs are of course in Italian. The archlute Arto Wikla is playing is made by Stephen Barber 1987. All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
