Love and Lamentation: 17th Century Italian Monody

The music of Monteverdi, Marini, Marazzoli and Rossi. Prologue from L’Orfeo and Lament of Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi; Elena invecchiata vanitas’ cantata on the aging Helen of Troy by Marco Marazzoli; Lament of Zaida, and Scenes from Orfeo by Luigi Rossi; instrumental music by Biagio Marini, Monteverdi and Rossi. Pre-concert talk at 7pm.