Event

"The Power of Affections: Vocal Music from Seventeenth-Century Italy", a concert of seventeenth-century arias by renowned soprano Julianne Baird, http://juliannebaird.camden.rutgers.edu/, will open the conference November 12, 7:30pm. 

Music by Francesco Cavalli, Claudio Monteverdi, Stefano Landi and Luigi Rossi will be played by Rebecca Harris and Mandy Wolman, violins; Richard Stone, chitarrone; Rebecca Cypess, clavicytherium and harpsichord; Christa Patton, harp. 

The event is free and open to the public but we ask that you RSVP to johnston@sas.upenn.edu so that we may better accommodate all guests. 

Organizing Committee: Fabio Finotti, Mauro Calcagno, Carlo Lanfossi, Marina Della Putta Johnston.

This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Mellon Cross-Cultural Conference Grant Program.

The conference is part of the project The Sung Word between Venice and Paris devoted to the performance of seventeenth-century opera in Italy and France sponsored by the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania (Mauro Calcagno), the Drama Studies Program at York University (Guillaume Bernardi), the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, France (Anne-Madeleine Goulet and Barbara Nestola), and the Institute for Music of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy (Gianmario Borio and Giada Viviani).

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/event/2014/11/power-affections-international-conference