In observation of the Fête de la Musique (World Music Day), Opera Lafayette presented a day-long celebration of music on June 20, 2021 featuring new performances and content created exclusively for the fête including curated highlights of our recorded works spanning the last twenty years. We invite you to join us at your leisure to hear and see the line-up of sterling performances, stimulating salons, and unique children’s programming. This event is free and open to all!
Fête de la Musique - Profitons ensemble! (Let’s enjoy together!)
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PROGRAM OF EVENTS
MORE DETAILED SCHEDULE: We are proud to present 12 hours of programming. Below is an overview by the hour. For a more detailed schedule, click here.
Talise Trevigne (Courtesy of Talise Trevigne)
ALL DAY - Opera Lafayette Archives
A compilation of works from Opera Lafayette recordings will be interspersed throughout the day’s programming featuring The OL orchestra, Claire Debono, David Newman, Dolores Ziegler, Emiliano Gonzales Toro, Jeffery Thompson, Jean-Michel Richer, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Karim Sulayman, Keven Geddes, Kimy Mc Laren, Kirsten Blaise, Lea Desandre, Lucía Martín-Cartón, Marianne Fiset, Nathalie Paulin, Pascale Beaudin, Robert Getchell, Stephanie Houtzeel, Sophie Junker, Talise Trevigne, Thomas Dolie, Thomas Dunford, Tomislav Lavoie, Tony Boutté, Marianne Fiset, and Yulia Van Doren.
Tregarin Conservancy (Photo Credit: Secret DC)
8:00 AM — A Morning Meditation with Bach
Join us virtually at the Tregaron Conservancy, a hidden idyll in Northwest Washington, DC, for the music of Bach’s Cello Suite performed for Opera Lafayette by Thomas Dunford, lute.
9:00 AM — Opera Starts with Oh! (Family Programming)
Opera Lafayette’s critically-acclaimed, interactive educational program designed for our youngest opera fans and their families. With special guest Ariana Douglas.
Caitlin Hulcup
10:00 a.m. — Recital by Mezzo-Soprano Caitlin Hulcup and Pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz
Filmed in the historic Edvard Grieg house in Leipzig, this recitial features works by Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten
The Blacksmith audience in Mancos, CO
11:00 a.m. — Premiere of The Making of: The Blacksmith documentary
Behind-the-scenes look at how this critically-acclaimed production during the COVID-19 global pandemic was brought to a live audience on a ranch in Colorado
Scenes from Opera Lafayette’s The Blacksmith
12:00 p.m. — Performance of Philidor’s The Blacksmith (Le maréchal ferrant)
A modern premiere adapted and translated from an 18th-century French opéra comique composed by François-André Danican Philidor in 1761 to the late 19th-century American West
1:00 p.m.— Lamentation to Liberation: A Journey from Sorrow to Joy in 17th Century Italy (UPDATED TIME)
Featuring Aaron Sheehan, Yulia Van Doren, Michele Kennedy, Reginald Mobley, Patricia A. Neely, Dongsok Shin, Jonathan Woody, and Adam Pearl.
Justin Taylor (Photo Credit: JB Millot)
2:00 p.m. — Solo Recital by Harpsichordist Justin Taylor
Recorded live for Opera Lafayette at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, featuring the music by Couperin, Rameau, Forqueray.
3:00 p.m. - Salon Series: Opera and Dance (UPDATED)
A conversation featuring Ryan Brown, Sèan Curran (Sèan Curran), Anuradha Nehru (Kalanidhi Dance), and Catherine Turocy (New York Baroque Dance Company).
4:00 p.m. — Opera Starts with Oh! (Family Programming) (UPDATED)
Opera Lafayette’s critically-acclaimed, interactive educational program designed for our youngest opera fans and their families. With special guest Motomi Igarashi.
Ammiel Bushakevitz and Latitia Grimaldi-Spitzer
5:00 p.m. — In Search of Lost Time: A performance of French Airs, Chansons and Chamber Music from Rameau to Roussel
Featuring Ammiel Bushakevitz, Latitia Grimaldi-Spitzer, Stephanie Houtzeel and Charles Brink.
6:00 p.m. – Salon Series: Overtures (UPDATED)
Get to know members of the Opera Lafayette Orchestra as they share their themselves and their instruments.
Anna Reinhold
7:00 p.m. – Anna Reinhold and Justin Taylor Recital (UPDATED)
Recorded live for Opera Lafayette at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, featuring the music of Strozzi, Frescobaldi, and Monteverdi.