La Grazia Delle Donne - La Cigale

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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Doors open at 6:45; pre-concert talk at 7:00. Seating is limited, so buy your tickets in advance. Youth and students are admitted free at the door.

“Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?”—Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528

) La Cigale proposes a celebration of femininity with a program of Italian music of the Baroque. The program features works by master women composers: Barbara Strozzi, Francesca and Settima Caccini, Vittoria Aleotti and Isabella Leonarda; as well as pieces by some of the men who encouraged feminine creativity: Giulio Caccini and Antonio Vivaldi.

Program:

The Caccini Family:

Ch’amor sia nudo – Francesca Caccini (1587-après 1641)

Se muove a giurar fede – Francesca Caccini

Si miei tormenti – Settimia Caccini (1591-1741)

Udite amanti – Giulio Caccini (vers 1550-1613)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Sonate en trio RV 63 en ré mineur “La Follia”

Vittoria Aleotti (ca 1575-1620)

Bacai per haver vita

Io v’amo vita mia

Hor che la vaga aurora

Isabella Leonarda

Purpurei Flores

Sonata Prima Opus 16

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)

Lagrime mie

Hor che Apollo

Musicians:

Stephanie Manias, soprano

Madeleine Owen, lute, theorbo, Baroque guitar and Artistic Directo

r Sara Lackie, Baroque triple harp and Assistant Director

Marie-Michel Beaupaiant, Baroque cello

Vincent Lauzer, recorders

Sari Tsuji, Baroque violin