Una Stravaganza Dei Medici (2)

This is the music composed for an extravagant wedding ceremony between Ferdinando de’ Medici and Christine of Lorraine on May the 2nd 1589. These musical sections were intermezzi’s for a showing of the comedy La Pellegrina by Girolamo Bargagli. The visual aspect of the spectacle was entrusted to Bernardo Buontalenti. We are lucky to have contemporary accounts both of the staging and of the musical performance which made a video such as this possible. This spectacle was one of the turning points in the trans