Wednesday, January 21, 2026 – 7:30 pm
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
400, rue Saint-Paul Est
Montréal, H2Y 1H4

Bus Bus : 170, 30, 350, 355, 364, 365
Métro Métro : Champs-de-Mars

SUMMARY

Intertwined here are Love—from its personification in the goddess Venus to the wisdom of Saint Anne, grandmother of Jesus, through the passion of Mary Magdalene— Devotion—through the compositions of cloistered nuns, who, as mystical brides of Christ, raised their music to the heavens— and Unicorns— honouring the pioneers whose genius defied their time, marrying polyphony to Hebrew prayers or defying the patriarchy…

PROGRAM

Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Coro di Damigelle
Le tre sirene

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Le Tre Grazie a Venere
Mater Anna

Sulpitia Cesis
(1577-v.1617)
Maria Magdalena et altera Maria

Salomone Rossi (1570-1630)
Se leoncorno
Psaume 8

Isabella Leonarda
(1620-1704)
Surge o felix anima
Ad arma spiritus

José Marín
(1619-1699)
No piense Menguilla ya

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-v.1678)
Maria Magdalena stabat

DISTRIBUTION

Élodie Bouchard et Leah Weitzner, sopranos
Maddie Studt, mezzo-soprano
Madeleine Owen, theorbo
Tristan Best, viola da gamba