Strozz-ulana!

Tickets – Pay What You Want ($20/$30 Suggested)

May 27th – 7:00pm:
Heliconian Hall, Toronto

Join Diapente as we delve into the magnificent madrigals of two musical superstars of the Renaissance and Baroque eras: Barbara Strozzi and Maddalena Casulana!

Maddalena Casulana, whose 1568 book of madrigals was the first published book of music written by a European woman. Her music was admired by the likes of Princess Isabella de’Medici – her patron, and other composer of the time such as Orlando Lassus and Philippe de Monte.

Although many of her works have been lost to time, 17 madrigals were re-discovered in 2022. Diapente and Apocryphonia will present some of these lost pieces to you for the first time in over 400 years!

Barbara Strozzi, born in Venice but known across Europe for her abilities as composer and singer. Unlike most composers of her era, her compositional output is almost entirely secular madrigals and she was not sponsored financially by the church or a single noble house. Despite that, she is known as “the most prolific composer – man or woman – of printed secular vocal music in Venice in the middle of the [17th] century.”

You will see why she earned that reputation firsthand on May 27th at Strozz-ulana!