Lamenti & Sospiri

1600 in Italy: music is in the midst of a revolution. The great composers of the time passionately embraced the new style, which placed the text and the expression of feelings-the affeti-in the foreground.

Guided by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli and Sigismondo d'India-among those who best understood the change in aesthetic sensibility and musical language at the dawn of the Baroque-and sublimated by the voice of Mariana Flores, this bewitchingly gentle program is an invitation to introspection and contemplation.

Thanks to the Institut français in Paris for its support in staging this concert.