L'orchestra Cremona Antiqua nasce nel 2003, quasi dieci anni dopo il coro Costanzo Porta, con l'intenzione di completare la visione del progetto di Antonio Greco anche da un punto di vista strumentale, portando stabilità e coerenza interpretative al lavoro del gruppo vocale.
The Cremona Antiqua orchestra was born in 2003, almost ten years after the Costanzo Porta choir, with the intention of completing the vision of Antonio Greco's project also from an instrumental point of view, bringing stability and interpretative coherence to the work of the vocal group.
Since 2015 the orchestra has started an important collaboration with the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, where it was the production orchestra in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020.
In 2021, the orchestra participated in numerous performances within the Monteverdi Festival, including the Scherzi Musicali Monteverdiani at the Violin Museum in Cremona. With Michela Lucenti's contemporary dance company Balletto Civile, he created the show Figli di un Dio Ubriaco, which has toured in Cremona, Montepulciano, Rovereto, the Piccolo Teatro Strehler in Milan, the Storchi in Modena and the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa.
In 2022 he participated in the world premiere of the contemporary opera A Sweet Silence in Cremona, written by Mark Campbell and set to music by Roberto Scarcella Perino, which was later revived in Florence.
In December 2022, the orchestra, together with cellist Ettore Pagano, performed two concerts featuring Haydn and Mozart, performed with classical bows, in Cremona and Novara.
Together with the choir, it has participated in several festivals throughout Italy, including: Musica e Poesia San Maurizio, at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, at the Festival dei due mondi in Spoleto, at the International Organ Festival in Aosta, at the International Midsummer Festival in Tagliacozzo, at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in lesi, at the Sagra malatestiana in Rimini, at the Rassegna Cori a Palazzo in Mantua and for the concert festivals of the Amici della musica in Verona and Lucca, at the Sagra Musicale Umbra, at Milano Arte Musica, at the Milanese serate Musicali, at the season of the Teatro Grande in Brescia and the Verdi in Pordenone.
In 2023 he produced L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Monteverdi Festival 2023, with Antonio Greco and Pierluigi Pizzi. The production will be revived in the fall in Como and Pavia and in January 2024 in Pisa and Ravenna.