The ‘koddige Olipodrigo’ is a collection of songs, consisting of 2 volumes, repeatedly published in Amsterdam around 1655. The title refers to the luxurious seventeenth-century dish ‘the Olipodrigo’; a kind of stew with a wealth of different meats and other ingredients. The contents (over 180 songs in total) are as diverse as they are extensive. Drinking songs, songs about love, mythological tales, farcical poop and piss jokes, caricatures of French and Germans, bawdy wedding poems; Sometimes serious and touching, often farcical, funny and to the point. Playfulness and fun burst from the pages.
The social character suggests a lively interaction between the ‘dinner companions’. Dialogue songs invited to sing in turn, and refrain songs such as the ‘Song-snakerijtje voor de Speelnoods’ from Den koddigen opdisser' could be used effectively in companies: the whole company falls in at the refrain.
The curious custom of ‘passing a liver’ plays a big role in this collection: one would sit at the table and pass a piece of liver (from the fish); if you got the liver, you had to ‘de-liver’ a poem or song in which the word ‘liver’ played a role.
The Olopodrigo can rightly be called Camerata Trajectina's most tasteful performance.
Enjoy an exuberant banquet full of rich singing, roast poetry and inebriated drinking banter. A farcical feast of delicacies that will fill both the stomach and the ear to your heart's content.
At the Table!

Olipodrigo was part of the Festival of Early Music Utrecht 2018 .

Music	Camerata Trajectina
	- Saskia Coolen
	- Arjan Verhaag
	- Cassandra Luckhard
Script	Arjan Verhaag & Marc Krone
Regisseur	Marc Krone
Costumes	Golden Age Costumes
Singers	Bernard Loonen
	Hieke Meppeling
	Wendy Roobol
	Sam Eggenhuizen
	Nico van Meel

2018	Netherlands