PERFORMANCE
The Chamber Series
Friday Performances: Live! at 10th & G, 945 G Street NW, Washington, DC
Saturday Performances: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 228 S Pitt St, Alexandria, VA 22314
Women of the Baroque
Canoro pianto et affetti
Live! at 10th & G
Washington, DC
Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Alexandria, VA
Soloists:
Paulina Francisco
soprano
Paula Maust
harpsichord
Joanna Blendulf
viola da gamba
Deborah Fox
lute & theorbo
MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Canoro pianto et affetti explores the musical world of 17th-century women through songs for solo voice. This program is inspired by the 1613 collection Canoro pianto di Maria Vergine sopra la faccia di Christo estinto (“The singing cries of the Virgin Mary over the face of the deceased Christ”). The program features select monodies arranged into a song cycle, including two compositions attributed to the Milanese nun Claudia Sessa, continuing with secular monodies by women composers similarly themed on Christ’s facial features. In a program devised and curated by rising-star soprano Paulina Francisco, this promises to be an evening of delightful discovery!
Paulina Francisco, soprano
Paula Maust, harpsichord
Joanna Blendulf, viola da gamba
Deborah Fox, lute & theorbo
Running time: approximately 75 minutes with no intermission
Margarita Brose, underwriter
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