A literary and musical celebration of Baroque composer Barbara Strozzi Hear from Smith and Heller on the artist’s enduring legacy, and enjoy performances of Strozzi’s compositions performed by members ...

The life of Barbara Strozzi (pictured below in a famous portrait) is an extraordinary one: illegitimate daughter of a famous opera librettist in the earliest years of opera, mother of four ...

Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi – the pioneering Venetian composer, born 400 years ago, whose songs and madrigals stand ...

Three pieces by the 17th century Venetian pioneer Barbara Strozzi (much-rediscovered of late but still far from standard fare) anchored a series of mostly melancholic cantatas in which wronged women ...