Barbara Strozzi, Venetian Virtuosa — Mills Music Now

Mills Music Now
Presented by Mills College at Northeastern University Music Department

This free event is open to the public.
Registration is required. 

This concert features the music of Barbara Strozzi, the pioneering composer and singer of 17th-century Venice, fabled for her extraordinary voice and music alike. Strozzi published eight collections of vocal works during her lifetime containing over a hundred works in total, and her music became known throughout Europe. Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi, whose songs and madrigals stand alongside Monteverdi’s as some of the greatest of the age. 
Conductor-singer Paul Flight, with a stellar ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, brings to life the splendid ensemble pieces of Strozzi's first collection, her Opus 1, including four and five part madrigals, trios and duets, alongside the laments, arias, and intricate cantatas of her later opuses for which Strozzi is best known. 

Victoria Fraser and Nalini Ghuman, sopranos 
Paul Flight, alto
Jack Wilkins and Kevin Gino, tenors
Sepp Hammer, baritone 

Lisa Lawson and Laura Jeanin, violins 
Amy Brodo, cello
Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord and organ 
Jon Mendle, theorbo 

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