Naples, a monograph dedicated to Barbara Strozzi at Domus Ars.
Among the most extraordinary singers of the early seventeenth century. Scandalous in her artistic freedom in the Venice of the literary academies. On stage the soprano Angela Luglio accompanied by the archlute of Ugo Di Giovanni
Tuesday 4 October at 20.00:XNUMX pm with the concert L'Eraclito Amoroso – Cantate, second appointment for Sicut Sagittae, the Baroque Music festival directed by Antonio Florio in residence at the Domus Ars. Produced by Il Canto di Virgilio, in collaboration with the Associazione Cappella Neapolitana– Antonio Florio. On stage the soprano Angela Luglio, accompanied by the archlute of Ugo Di Giovanni.
A monograph dedicated to one of the most extraordinary singers of the early seventeenth century, Barbara Strozzi. Scandalous in her artistic freedom in the Venice of the literary academies. Seven books of her compositions have survived, published between 1644 and 1664. They are collections of Madrigals, Arias, Ariettes, Duets, profane Cantatas and a single book of sacred compositions, the “Sacri musicali affetti”, from '55.
She set to music not only texts by poets such as the Neapolitan Giambattista Marino, lyrics by her father Giulio Strozzi and other Venetian academics, but also texts composed by herself, through which one can sometimes see the intent to challenge the clichés about the female gender still present in a Venice in which, however, more than in any other city on the Peninsula, one could now breathe an air of secularism and modernity.
Tuesday 4 October 20.00pm – Domus Ars
Via Santa Chiara, 10
The Loving Heraclitus – Cantatas
Barbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677)
Angela Luglio, soprano
Ugo Di Giovanni, archlute
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Her musical and literary education was encouraged and cared for by her father Giulio who made her frequent the most prestigious circles of the cultural Venice of those times and directed her to the school of Francesco Cavalli. In the following years not only her fame as a singer, but also her activity as a composer grew so much that she was considered the most prolific of all the composers of secular music in Venice in the mid-600th century.
Article published on 3 October 2022 - 19:22
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