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4.26.19 Historical Performance Department presents: You Didn’t Come To Hear Me Cry: Barbara Strozzi At 400
Friday • April 26, 2019 | 1:00 pm
The program will be an excursion through the societal elements encircling Strozzi and women artists in Venice of her day. Strozzi’s contemporaries will be explored, including llluminating texts by Jewish poet-philosopher Sara Copia Sullam, paintings by Chiara Varotari, and the narrative of controversial young 17th-century opera singer Silvia Manni.
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