The Italian Madrigal: Petrarca, Tasso, Guarini
![]() Circa 1600
1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Featuring a selection of music by Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, Giaches de Wert, Filippe de Monte, and Carlo Gesualdo, our chamber choir Circa 1600, directed by Robert Worth, performs dazzling madrigals with texts by three great Italian poets: Francesco Petrarca (the great pioneer of Italian vernacular poetry) and two late 16th-century authors from Ferrara: Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini.
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