BARBARA

Description

Texts drawn from Veglia prima [-terza] de’ signori Academici Vnisoni. Hauuta in Venetia in casa del signor Giulio Strozzi, Venice, Sarzina, 1638

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzona V known as La Tromboncina, F 8.06a
from Primo Libro delle Canzoni a una, due, tre, e quattro voci, Rome, 1628

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Se i languidi miei sguardi, SV 141
from Settimo libro de Madrigali, Venice, 1619

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Lagrime mie, lament
from Diporti di Euterpe, op. 7, Venice, 1659

L’Eraclito Amoroso
from Cantate, Ariette e Duetti, op. 2, Venice, 1651

Tradimento!
from Diporti di Euterpe, op. 7, Venice, 1659

Claudio Monteverdi
Lamento della Ninfa, SV 163
from Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi, Venice, 1638

Anonymous
Las Folias
from Flores de Música by Antonio Martín y Coll,
Madrid, Bibl. Nacional, M/1357-60, 1706

Who was Barbara Strozzi?

The contours of her identity are fragmented. We know, however, the environments and the people she used to associate with, we know her music and maybe this is all we need to know about her. We will therefore sneak in the parlors we will get to listen to the voices of the academics getting excited, rejoicing and suffering while discussing the theme that Barbara chose for the night: Is love a matter of joy or suffering?We will listen to her music which is, perhaps the voice of all women who love, rejoice, suffer, cure, heal.