UC San Diego professor Susan Narucki considers her annual chamber opera project, kallisti, an experiment. This year, in the production of “Sino alla morte,” which opened Wednesday at Conrad Prebys ...

Emöke Baráth: Voglio cantar — 17th-century soprano Barbara Strozzi is given her due on facebook (opens in a new window) Emöke Baráth: Voglio cantar — 17th-century soprano Barbara Strozzi is given her ...

A contemporary of Monteverdi's, a student of opera composer Francesco Cavalli and an intimate of the artistic circle known as the Accademia degli Incogniti, Barbara Strozzi is, of course, fascinating ...

It was splendid because a woman could be the most prolific, one of the most innovative and celebrated musical figures of her society, as were Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre in the ...

Many noble families in late Renaissance Italy encouraged their daughters to study music, giving rise to generations of women skilled in singing, instrumental performance and composition. Of the ...

Barbara Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619. She died in Padua on 11 November, 1677, at the age of 58. Strozzi composed exclusively vocal music, most of it for an accompanied female voice. Remarkably ...