Cabinet of Curiosities

Behind the cathedral: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, CONCERTATO PIECES (1642),

In the ducal chapel: George Frideric Handel, CHANDOS ANTHEM, "As Pants the Hart" (1719),

In art rooms: Laurence Crane, COME BACK TO THE OLD SPECIMEN CABINET, JOHN VIGANI (2007),

John White, DRINKING AND HOOTING MACHINE (1968)
Charlie Sdraulig New work (2025), solo voices, choir and live electronics

Intimate communication and thoughts experienced in real time entered performance culture simultaneously in the England of Shakespeare's monologues and the Italy of baroque vocal composition.

This concert places the worlds of the fearless Abbess Cozzolani of Milan and the opera celebrity and English immigrant Handel among more recent British experimental performance pieces, and a new ensemble communication by Melbourne composer Charlie Sdraulig.