Call For The Wailing Women: Laments And Lamentations In Italian Convents – Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Venice

About this event

This concert program centers on lament as a form of female vocal expression. The official event copy identifies works by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Maria Francesca Nascimbeni and other female composers, framing the subject through Italian convent culture. The associated program description places the repertoire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy and describes works composed both by and for cloistered nuns. It includes monodic and polyphonic settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah and presents the convent as the social and artistic context for the repertoire. The 2026 event material identifies Cappella Artemisia as the ensemble and gives the performance a one-hour slot at Scuola Grande dei Carmini. No event-specific director, designer, lighting, costume or staging concept is published.