Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)

While the tradition of public opera was being established in Venice, the young singer and composer BARBARA entered the private stage of her adoptive father Giulio Strozzi's Accademia degli Unisoni to raise her voice with advanced, highly expressive vocal music. Barbara Strozzi's female composition and performance practice must therefore be viewed in the context of the academic milieu of Venice in the Seicento, where her works were printed in eight volumes between 1644 and 1664. International authors from Germany, Italy and the USA reconstruct how Strozzi takes up and explores poetic-musical traditions with self-confidence and seriousness, but also breaks them with humour and lightness.