The Courtesan's Gaze: The Life and Work of Barbara Strozzi at St Martin's Church, Salisbury on Friday 25th May 2018

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The Courtesan's Gaze

The Life and Work of Barbara Strozzi

Add to my Calendar 25-05-2018 19:30 25-05-2018 21:30 36 The Courtesan's Gaze Barbara Strozzi lived a life of high musical achievement and scandal in the Venice of the seventeenth century. A prolific and successful published composer in her own time, she was also said to have acted as courtesan at musical and intellectual meetings where “clothes were optional”. This concert of beautiful and florid soprano solos and duets composed by Strozzi and her contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesca Caccini, will explore Strozzi's reception, and whether the scandal surrounding her was justified. St Martin's Church, Salisbury DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Martin's Church
St Martin's Church Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 2HY
England

Friday 25th May 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Barbara Strozzi – Amor Dormiglione
Claudio Monteverdi – Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
Kapsberger – Passacaglia
Francesca Caccini – Lasciatemi qui solo
Claudio Monteverdi – Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, SV 251
Barbara Strozzi – L'Eraclito Amoroso
Barbara Strozzi – Begli Occhi

Performers

Hannah Ely – soprano
Lucinda Cox – soprano
Aileen Henry – Harp
Toby Carr – theorbo

Fieri Consort

Programme Note

Barbara Strozzi lived a life of high musical achievement and scandal in the Venice of the seventeenth century. A prolific and successful published composer in her own time, she was also said to have acted as courtesan at musical and intellectual meetings where “clothes were optional”. This concert of beautiful and florid soprano solos and duets composed by Strozzi and her contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Francesca Caccini, will explore Strozzi's reception, and whether the scandal surrounding her was justified.

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