The New Consort, Brian Mummert, director
Why is it that women in art are so often the ones punished for love? O Stars, Conspiring Against Me is a meditation on women in myth, and how those stories continue to shape the portrayal of women in art to this day. The program is built around the North American digital premiere of The Turn, a piece by UK-based composer Ben Rowarth designed to be interspersed with, and thus recontextualize, Claudio Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna, and is framed by works by some of Monteverdi’s female contemporaries asking, well, the same kinds of questions we are.
THURSDAY, May 27 at 7:30pm & Sunday, May 30 at 4:00pm EDT
Program:
Francesca Caccini, “Che t’ho fatt’io”
Barbara Strozzi, “L’usignolo”
Claudio Monteverdi, Lamento d’Arianna
Ben Rowarth, The Turn
The New Consort is:
Madeline Apple Healey
Julie Bosworth
Elisa Sutherland
Nathan Hodgson
Brian Mummert
Jonathan Woody
with guest Dani Zanuttini-Frank, theorbo
