Their ensemble was called the Ospedali.

And their whole system of training these girls and women up through like early childhood all the way through – they'd stay their whole lives and play music, do nothing but play music and sing.

And they could play multiple instruments.

It turns out it's really, really rich.

And fascinating in the way that the performance had to be done in a sort of an inversion of what we think of as a performance where the women be up in a balcony.

around the audience, looking down on the audience.

And because of the social morals of the time, it was considered like way too suggestive to see a woman play a musical instrument, my god.

what is the meaning of the title of the Vivaldi Church? Is it the meaning about a physical place or something different?