VITA SEGRETA, MUSICA SEGRETA

Μusic for unconventional women

17th century, Adriana Basile – the Siren of Posillipo. Laura Peverara, Anna Guarini, and Livia D’Arco, the famous Concerto delle Donne. The House of Medici, the D’Este and Gonzaga Courts, the Accademia degli Unisoni.
The Canto Soave ensemble seeks the secrets of talented women who dared to live and create, often against the social norms of their era, through surviving letters, diaries, and poems.

The performance Vita Segreta, Musica Segreta explores their unseen lives, focusing on the vocal music written for the famous singers and the great female vocal ensembles that entertained the nobility at the courts of Florence, Ferrara, Mantua, and Venice.
The programme includes arias, duets and trios by L. Luzzaschi, C. Monteverdi, L. Rossi as well as female composers F. Caccini and B. Strozzi.

Canto Soave

Natassa Agelopoulou, soprano
Maira Milolidaki, soprano
Effi Minakouli, mezzo soprano/theorbo
Katerina Ktona, harpsichord

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