Brigida

In the age of the Enlightenment when the melodramma expressed as mass mu- sical genre, the magnificent and powerful soprano voice of Brigida enchants and moves the audience of refined music lovers and simple listeners in the theatres of half Europe: from Venice, Turin and Naples to London and Warsaw. Without a real music education but gifted of an extraordinary natural talent and a wide vocal extension, rich of expressivity and timbre’s shades, she gave credibility and substance to female characters otherwise inhibited in the myth stereotypes: Arianna and Briseide, Tisbe and Euridice, Semiramide and Zenobia, the two ancient warrior queens, as beautiful as unscrupulous and cruel. And Aspasia, the Greek fascinating cultured paramour, friend of Pericle, that inaugurated the first season of the Theatre “La Fenice” of Venice (1792).