Pallas nordica

There once was a queen. A Swedish queen. Full of contradictions and with a most intriguing fate... One of the most educated women of the Baroque era, she loved the world – to such an extent that she gave up her royal throne at the age of 28. She left her native Sweden and travelled across Europe to Rome. She was first a Protestant, then a Catholic. She corresponded with and supported Europe’s leading contemporary artists and thinkers, such as R. Descartes or B. Pascal. She was known as “Pallas Nordica”, but her actual name was Christina...

We will follow in her striking musical footsteps with the excellent German ensemble NeoBarock, which will offer up well-known masters including Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Arcangelo Corelli. But they will also perform works by unknown, but remarkable composers such as Vincenzo Albrici, who is buried in Prague and worked directly for Christina I of Sweden, or Johann Schop from Hamburg, whose compositions were played during the celebrations of the Westphalian Peace (1648), in which Christina also participated. Truly an evening for a baroque femme fatale!