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Forthcoming shows featuring the same performers:
Ruby Hughes & Friends
Heroines of Love and Loss
Programme includes:
| ‘O lead me to some peaceful gloom’ (Bonduca) | |
| Cello sonata in G minor | |
| ‘L’Eraclito amoroso’ | |
| ‘Occhi io vissi di voi’ | |
| ‘Lasciatemi qui solo’ | |
| ‘Lagrime mie’ | |
| ‘O magnum mysterium’ | |
| ‘Dido’s Lament’ (Dido and Aeneas) |
| soprano | |
| theorbo, lute | |
| cello |
On International Women’s Day, soprano Ruby Hughes and colleagues mix rare arias by 17th-century female composers with those featuring tragic heroines.
A rare chance to hear music by nuns Claudia Sessa and Lucrezia Vizzana, and singer-composers Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi, alongside Purcell’s great laments for Dido and Boudica (Bonduca). Lutenist Jonas Nordberg and cellist Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann will contribute instrumental works of the time.