SUNDAY SERENADES
This 2020/21 season we hosted Sunday Serenades, a series of curated recitals featuring celebrated artists performing a wide range of works recorded in state-of-the-art venues around the globe. All performances for the season have already premiered, but you can now marvel at these performances on-demand at your leisure with the exception of the Hulcup & Dunford presentation. Scroll below to enjoy…
PERFORMANCES
Lamentation to liberation. Jonathan Woody and Reginald Mobley, with Yulia van Doren, Aaron Sheehan, and other guests
Opened: March 1, 2021
Ticket Price: $15 + admin fee
This program includes solos, duets, and ensembles from the 17th-century Italian repertoire, and will feature Nigra Sum Sed Formosa: A Fantasia on Microaggressions. Composed by bass baritone Jonathan Woody with text compiled by countertenor Reggie Mobley, this new work combines a contemporary topic with the aesthetics of a renaissance motet. Performers include Woody and Mobley, along with sopranos Yulia van Doren and Michele Kennedy, tenor Aaron Sheehan, organist Dongsok Shin, and viola da gambist Patricia Neely.
In Search of Lost Time: French Chamber Works from Rameau to Roussel - Laetitia Grimaldi and Stephanie Houtzeel, with Ammeil Bushakevitz, piano
Opened: Sunday, March 28, 2021, 2:00 p.m. ET
Ticket Price: $15 + admin fee
This recital reunites soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel, who respectively performed Proserpina and Titano, King of Spain, who eloped with Proserpina, in Opera Lafayette’s modern premiere of Jommelli’s Cerere Placata. Recorded in the Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin, this program will showcase the French Baroque and its influence on Romanticism in France. Flutist Charles Brink, a member of Opera Lafayette’s Orchestra, will make a guest appearance.
Caitlin Hulcup, Thomas Dunford, and Friends
This program brings together two acclaimed baroque artists familiar to Opera Lafayette: mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup, last heard with Opera Lafayette in the title role of Handel’s Radamisto; and lutenist Thomas Dunford, who most recently partnered with the company in our 25th anniversary season’s opening performances of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. These artists will be joined by colleagues in a program devoted to Henry Purcell.
Streamed: February 1 – 13, 2021
No longer available on demand.