ANNA RENZI: THE FIRST DIVA

The soprano Anna Renzi was born in Rome in 1620 and made her debut very young. Favourite singer, among the others, of Claudio Monteverdi, who expressly wrote for her the role of Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea, she bacame famous in Venice, at the Teatro Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo and was often acommpanied by the young Maestro from Forlì Filiberto Laurenzi. In Innsbruck she sang in the opera “Argia”of Antonio Cesti. Anna Renzi is considered one of the first diva of the rising italian Opera.

The concert proposes the most significant and famous arias interpreted by the great Anna Renzi. Roberta Invernizzi will take us in this wonderful journey!

Program:

A. Cesti: Sinfonia and Prologo (from Argia)
G. Frescobaldi: Canzon Prima a basso solo (from Canzoni da sonare, libro primo, venetian edition)
G. P. Cima: Sonata a due, violin and violone
F. Laurenzi: Spero, aspetto (from La finta savia)
F. Laurenzi: Stolta Melanto (from La finta savia)
F. Laurenzi: Per far nascere un Chirone (from La finta savia)
G. Ceresini: Simulacro d’amor (transcription for harspichord solo)
F. Laurenzi: O cara libertà (from Concerti e arie)
G. Frescobaldi: Toccata prima from Libro secondo per clavicembalo solo
L. Rossi: Passacaglia del signor Luigi for harspichord solo

Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Ensemble Sezione Aurea
Lucia Cortese, soprano in A. Cesti
Luca Giardini e Gabriele Raspanti, violins
Francesca Camagni, viola
Rosita Ippolito, viola da gamba
Sebastiano Severi, cello
Giovanni Valgimigli, violone
Giangiacomo Pinardi, theorbo
Filippo Pantieri , harspichord