The Rebel Queen: Music from the Court of Queen Christina of Sweden
Queen Cristina is one of the most interesting personages of the seventeenth century. The daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, she became queen of Sweden at the young age of six upon...
The Cycle of Love: Enchantment to Betrayal
This program follows the journey of love: its awakening, seduction, sensuality, consummation, betrayal, suffering, and finally, hope. This concert highlights the text-painting madrigals of Monteverdi, the melodic stylings of Barbara...
Love & Longing: Italian Madrigals & Cantatas of the Early Baroque
The Concerto delle Donne – a singing group of three ladies in the court of Alfonso d’Este in Ferrara – created quite a musical stir in late sixteenth-century Italy. This...