Caro Sposo: Oratorio Di Santa Caterina

In this second recording of the Reliquie di Roma series, we raise an edifice to St. Catherine. The oratorio continues in rich and elaborate baroque style, with the character s prolonged and agonizing suffering ultimately leading to her sublime and victorious death. Lelio Orsini, one of Rome s most eminent librettists, vividly conveyed the narrative in elegant poetry, which Marco Marazzoli dramatically and extravagantly enhanced in the full-scale Oratorio di Santa Caterina.