A journey from the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga to the thermal town of Spa, in today’s Belgium.
Among the members of the court are Claudio Monteverdi, a skillful “viola alla bastarda” player, and the famous tenor Francesco Rasi, to whom Monteverdi entrusted the role of Orpheus in his immortal opera.
In Brussels they performed in front of Archduke Albert and his wife, the infanta Isabel, daughter of King Felipe II of Spain.