Sottovoce

There is a music born where words tremble and dare not become a voice, where the heart bends beneath the weight of what it loves, where speaking softly means saying everything.

From Legrenzi’s dialogue between shadow and light, word and silence, we move to the tears of Strozzi, who tells of those who dared to open their hearts and discovered the bittersweet pain that followed. Steffani finds in oblivion a longed-for place of rest, while Stradella weaves together the voices of two lovers who seek and resist each other, a mirror of desire’s ambiguity.

Thus music becomes the echo of the soul’s secrets. Where longing dwells alongside whispered names, glances and ancient memories, one may enter only on tiptoe, speaking Sottovoce.