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...The illegitimate or adopted daughter of poet Giulio Strozzi, she studied with composer Francesco Cavalli, and wrote music that stood out for its sensuality....
...Festival 2017 includes the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, plus the UK premiere of Cavalli’s Hipermestra (1658), which had not been staged for 300 years when it was rediscovered in 2006....
...The animals were more eccentrically celebrated in the Palazzo del Te, designed by the brilliantly inventive architect Giulio Romano in the 1520s for Federico II Gonzaga, the Marquess of Mantua....
...Standing in the Sala dei Cavalli, whose imagery depicts the Gonzagas’ beloved horses in dramatic profile, Morari told me he’d spent a year-and-a-half repainting its wooden ceiling, which was crawling with...
...In this classic operatic tangle of love and power, Handel picked up on the irreverent style of Monteverdi and Cavalli while giving us a pre-echo of Mozart and Da Ponte....
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