Caccini

Another unique, one-night-only event titled “Electric Fields” will pair pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque with contemporary music soprano Barbara Hannigan in an immersive, multimedia exploration of the work of Medieval composer and saint Hildegard of Bingen, as well as the work of two female Italian composers, the Baroque era’s Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi.

Sigismondo d’India was a young Italian composer at the explosively creative dawn of the 17th century, the time of Gesualdo, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Caccini.

The dauntless soprano Barbara Hannigan will star alongside the pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque in the New York premiere of “Supernova,” a staged exploration of nine centuries of song, directed by Netia Jones and featuring music by Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, David Chalmin and Bryce Dessner.

Radical populists create their own elaborate universe of ideological loyalty and debunked science of a type that would have been familiar to Caccini.

But in Italian politics, the spirit of Caccini — the sacrifice of scientific reasoning to ideology — remains at work.