The Mad Woman Who Came from Naples

Drawing on the cantata La Pazza Venuta da Napoli, composed around 1630 by Pietro Antonio Giramo, the brilliant musicians of the Kapsber'girls lead us, through music, staging and improvisation, into a pocket opera with the air of the commedia dell'arte: the story of a woman madly in love who, harshly rejected by the object of her affection, wanders between delirious tales and heartbreaking songs. Around this tragicomic figure from Giramo's work, v...