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Wednesday, January 21, 2026 – 7:30 pm
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
400, rue Saint-Paul Est
Montréal, H2Y 1H4
Bus : 170, 30, 350, 355, 364, 365
Métro : Champs-de-Mars
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…
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Le Tre Grazie a Venere
Mater Anna
Sulpitia Cesis (1577-v.1619)
Maria Magdalena
Salomone Rossi (1570-1630)
Se leoncorno
Psaume 8
Jit Gaddal
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Le tre sirene
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Surge o felix anima
Ad arma spiritus
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-v.1678)
Regina caeli, laetare
O caeli Cives
Élodie Bouchard et Leah Weitzner, sopranos
Maddie Studt, mezzo-soprano
Madeleine Owen, theorbo and lute
Tristan Best, viola da gamba and lirone