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A 300-Year-Old Aria Sent Me to Poznań
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A 300-Year-Old Aria Sent Me to Poznań

Jul 21, 2026 14 min read

How Vivaldi, an extraordinary countertenor and a convenient flight became the beginning of my first proper journey through Poland Three hundred years before Instagram, Antonio Vivaldi wrote an aria about longing and the quiet certainty of seeing someone beloved again. “Vedrò con mio diletto” belongs to Giustino, an opera first performed in Rome i