Fermate Il Passo-Tracing the Origins of Opera

Description

Truly beautiful music consists in [] singing to the accompaniment of the viol (Baldassare Castiglione in his famous Book of the Courtier, Venice, 1528). Here VivaBiancaLuna Biffi brings one of the most refined traditions of Renaissance culture back to life, applying it to the frottola repertoire, in the form of a miniature opera on the subject of love, with its intimate solitude and the intense emotions  happiness, torment, hope, disappointment that go with it.