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Strozzi's music is vivid and spectacular: period specialists Flores and Leonardo García Alarcón make a strong case for it, with an emotional slice of Argentina for an encore.

It was unfair to pair the exquisite madrigals and songs of Barbara Strozzi with a weighty piece by Monteverdi.

Apollo's Fire digs deep into the roots of early music and finds some surprisingly contemporary sounds.

Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, a darling of the Parisian opera stages, puts on a fine display of her vocal range on the occasion of the American première of her production titled Era la Notte (in English translation, “It Was Night”). Originally staged in 2006, this performance is being presented in New York as part of the White Light Festival at the Lincoln Center.