An ode to the disapearing women of history.
2025/2026
A Collabaration with the Orchesta of the eighteenth Century and Kate Moore
Composer Marianna Martines
She grew up sharing a home with Haydn and Metastasio. She trained with the finest eachers in Europe. Her brilliance and virtuosity made her a tourde-force composer, performer and public figure. Then she all but disappeared from the public consciousness
and the name Marianna Martines was lost to history.
The phenomenon of the women composers of the past being written out of history is not unique to Marianna Martines, but her story is a fascinating one. How could one of the most famous individuals of her time, with such an enormous musical output be nothing more than a footnote in today’s music textbooks? Her music and her name, while celebrated in her lifetime, has all but evanesced.
The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and soprano Elisabeth Hetherington have created a programme that would look at her vast musical output, as well as the music that painted the landscape of her life.
Composer Kate Moore
Combined with the fiery, virtuosity and serenely beautiful moments, the programme is completed with the commission of Kate Moore. In addition to beauty and complexity of her compositions, Moore’s interest in Early Music and ancient techniques, as well as her
text writing, and inclusion of unusual instruments makes her the ideal composer for this project. Moore will provide a reflection on the life of Marianna Martines and seemingly unavoidable fate of women of history: to disappear to time.