PERGOLESI!

El Museo del Barrio
New York City, NY
Thursday, May 11, 2023, 7:00pm

CAST & CREW

*Mesko and Blondeel (Stabat Mater), de Priest (Servante Maitresse)

in the salons of versailles

El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
Wednesday, May 10 2023, 7 pm

CAST & CREW

OPERA LAFAYETTE PRESENTS

THE ERA OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR
NEW YORK GALA PERFORMANCE AND DINNER

GALA CHAIR
BARBARA TOBER

HONORING
HENRY TIMMS
PRESIDENT & CEO OF LINCOLN CENTER

SPECIAL GUESTS
H.R.H. PRINCESS CHANTAL DE FRANCE &
THE BARON FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DE SAMBUCY DE SORGUE

MACHINE DAZZLE

This event is part of Opera Lafayette’s Second Annual New York City Baroque Festival.

This performance is part of Opera Lafayette’s Second Annual New York City Baroque Music Festival. Tickets can be purchased for this performance alone, as part of the Gala, or the full festival which includes three performances from May 9 to 11, 2023. More information about the Festival can be found here.

Opéra-ballet: Rameau’s Io and de La Garde’s Léandre et Héro

El Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
Tuesday, May 9 2023, 6:30 pm

CAST & CREW

The productions will feature dance Seán Curran Company (choreographer Seán Curran) and New York Baroque Dance Company (choreographer Catherine Turocy).

Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano, and Maxime Melnik, tenor (U.S. debut) will star in the title roles and be joined by Doug Williams, Gwendoline Blondeel, and Patrick Kilbride. 

Avi Stein will conduct and Nick Olcott will return to Opera Lafayette to direct.

Opéra-ballet: Rameau’s Io and de La Garde’s Léandre et Héro

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater
Tuesday, May 3, 2023, 7:30 pm

CAST & CREW

The productions will feature dance Seán Curran Company (choreographer Seán Curran) and New York Baroque Dance Company (choreographer Catherine Turocy).

Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano, and Maxime Melnik, tenor (U.S. debut) will star in the title roles and be joined by Doug Williams, Gwendoline Blondeel, and Patrick Kilbride. 

Avi Stein will conduct and Nick Olcott will return to Opera Lafayette to direct.

Opéra-ballet: Rameau’s Io and de La Garde’s Léandre et Héro

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater
Tuesday, May 2 2023, 7:30 pm

Post-Show Reception

Immediately following the performance there will be a Post-Show Reception across the street at The Watergate Hotel. Tickets are $35 and includes specialty drinks and passed hors d'oeuvres. Purchase tickets here.

CAST & CREW

The productions will feature dance Seán Curran Company (choreographer Seán Curran) and New York Baroque Dance Company (choreographer Catherine Turocy).

Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano, and Maxime Melnik, tenor (U.S. debut) will star in the title roles and be joined by Doug Williams, Gwendoline Blondeel, and Patrick Kilbride. 

Avi Stein will conduct and Nick Olcott will return to Opera Lafayette to direct.

PERGOLESI!

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater
Washington, DC
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7:30pm
Pre-Concert Lecture, 6:30- 7pm in the theater

post-show reception

CAST & CREW

*Mesko and Blondeel (Stabat Mater), de Priest (Servante Maitresse)

Concert Spirituel aux Caraïbes 

With music composed by Gossec, Dalayrac, Pergolesi, and more. 

Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC 10029

Pedro Memelsdorff, a musician scholar whose recent research has focused on music in the French colonies in the Caribbean during the 18th century, conceives and leads a program highlighting French music performed there between 1760 and 1790.  The musical life of the colonies involved enslaved, formerly enslaved, and free peoples, and Memelsdorff’s program addresses the extraordinarily complicated dynamics between the musical culture of imperial France and the people of the Caribbean.  Well-known French composers from the 18th century and newly rediscovered works are represented in this orchestral concert with vocal soloists and ensemble. 

Concert Spirituel aux Caraïbes 

With music composed by Gossec, Dalayrac, Pergolesi, and more 

Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10029

Pedro Memelsdorff, a musician scholar whose recent research has focused on music in the French colonies in the Caribbean during the 18th century, conceives and leads a program highlighting French music performed there between 1760 and 1790.  The musical life of the colonies involved enslaved, formerly enslaved, and free peoples, and Memelsdorff’s program addresses the extraordinarily complicated dynamics between the musical culture of imperial France and the people of the Caribbean.  Well-known French composers from the 18th century and newly rediscovered works are represented in this orchestral concert with vocal soloists and ensemble. 

TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

Le Salon de Musique de Marie Antoinette
(The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette)
Concert & Gala Dinner
New York City

Wednesday, June 8
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York City

Please join us for a celebration of…

Opera Lafayette's inaugural New York Festival,
The Era of Marie Antoinette, Rediscovered. 

The evening will commence at El Museo del Barrio with Opera Lafayette’s presentation of Le Salon de Musique de Marie Antoinette (The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette). A gala dinner will immediately follow the concert at a private club to which transportation will be provided.

The gala will honor Emily K. Rafferty, President Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  and feature a post-dinner performance by internationally-renowned bass Nathan Berg.

ABOUT THE CONCERT
Le Salon de Musique de Marie Antoinette
(The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette)

As the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette had an extraordinary education in music and dance. After marrying the French Dauphin in 1770 and becoming Queen of France in 1774, she became a patron of contemporary composers and performed frequently in her own salon as a harpist. This program brings the listener into her salon at Versailles to hear airs and chamber works of Gluck, the Caribbean-born Chevalier de Saint Georges, and Phillip Hinner, a survivor of the ill-fated colony Kourou in Guinea, among others.

Cast
Sophia Burgos, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Charles Brink, flute 
Sandrine Chatron, harp

Ticket Levels

Please select from the following ticket levels. Any questions, please call (212) 634-9388 or email operalafayette@operalafayette.org.

If you’d like to purchase a New York City subscription and tickets to Le Salon de Musique de Marie Antoinette (The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette) Concert & Gala Dinner, please contact our Box Office directly at (212) 634-9388 or email operalafayette@operalafayette.org.

Platinum Concert & Dinner Table for 10 - $15,000 ($11,150 tax deductible)

• 10 Orchestra Center Concert Tickets

• Dinner for 10 at a private club

• VIP Transportation from El Museo del Barrio to a private club

• 10 Tickets to a French Consulate Reception

• 10 tickets to the Roundtable Discussion on The Era of Marie Antoinette, Rediscovered – Friday, June 10th

Gold Concert & Dinner Table for 10 - $7,500 ($3,900 tax deductible)

• 10 Orchestra Front Concert Tickets

• Dinner for 10 at a private club

• Transportation from El Museo del Barrio to a private club

• 2 Tickets to a French Consulate Reception

• 10 tickets to the Roundtable Discussion on The Era of Marie Antoinette, Rediscovered – Friday, June 10th

Individual Platinum Concert & Dinner Ticket $1,500 ($1,115 tax deductible)

• Orchestra Center Concert Ticket

• Dinner at a private club

• VIP Transportation from El Museo del Barrio to a private club

• Ticket to a French Consulate Reception

• Ticket to the Roundtable Discussion on The Era of Marie Antoinette, Rediscovered – Friday, June 10th

Gold Level Concert & Dinner Ticket $750 ($390 tax deductible)

• Orchestra Front Concert Ticket

• Dinner at a private club

• Transportation from El Museo del Barrio to a private club

• Ticket to the Roundtable Discussion on The Era of Marie Antoinette, Rediscovered – Friday, June 10th

If you’d like to purchase a New York City subscription and tickets to Le Salon de Musique de Marie Antoinette (The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette) Concert & Gala Dinner please contact our Box Office directly at (212) 634-9388 or email operalafayette@operalafayette.org.

The Musical Salon of Marie Antoinette 

Evening sung in French with English surtitles 

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029

As the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie-Antoinette had an extraordinary education in music and dance. After marrying the French Dauphin in 1770 and becoming Queen of France in 1774, she became a patron of contemporary composers and performed frequently in her own salon as a harpist. This program brings the listener into her salon at Versailles to hear airs and chamber works of Gluck, the Caribbean born Chevalier de Saint Georges, and Phillip Hinner, a survivor of the ill-fated colony Kourou in Guinea, among others.  

TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

Gretry’s Silvain

A fully-staged production of this 1770 work, set in the New World. 

Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10029

Silvain, (1770), was both a favorite of Marie Antoinette in France and the first opera performed in New Orleans in 1796.  Surprisingly, the opera’s story of family conflict and reconciliation also upheld the rights of peasants to use land owned by the nobles.   

In the early 19th century, French entrepreneurs moved to the American southwest and acquired vast tracts of land from the Mexican government. They guaranteed the peasants who settled these lands the same privileges as those at the center of the drama in Grétry and Marmontel’s opera. Conflicts around these rights in the United States have continued to the present day, and this story’s resonance in the New World has inspired Opera Lafayette’s setting of this modern premiere of Silvain.

TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

Gretry’s Silvain

A fully-staged production of this 1770 work, set in the New World. 

Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC 10029

Silvain, (1770), was both a favorite of Marie Antoinette in France and the first opera performed in New Orleans in 1796.  Surprisingly, the opera’s story of family conflict and reconciliation also upheld the rights of peasants to use land owned by the nobles.   

In the early 19th century, French entrepreneurs moved to the American southwest and acquired vast tracts of land from the Mexican government. They guaranteed the peasants who settled these lands the same privileges as those at the center of the drama in Grétry and Marmontel’s opera. Conflicts around these rights in the United States have continued to the present day, and this story’s resonance in the New World has inspired Opera Lafayette’s setting of this modern premiere of Silvain.

TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

Gretry’s Silvain

A fully-staged production of this 1770 work, set in the New World. 

Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC 10029

Silvain, (1770), was both a favorite of Marie Antoinette in France and the first opera performed in New Orleans in 1796.  Surprisingly, the opera’s story of family conflict and reconciliation also upheld the rights of peasants to use land owned by the nobles.   

In the early 19th century, French entrepreneurs moved to the American southwest and acquired vast tracts of land from the Mexican government. They guaranteed the peasants who settled these lands the same privileges as those at the center of the drama in Grétry and Marmontel’s opera. Conflicts around these rights in the United States have continued to the present day, and this story’s resonance in the New World has inspired Opera Lafayette’s setting of this modern premiere of Silvain.

This event is part of Opera Lafayette’s New Mexico Residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.

GRÉTRY’S SILVAIN
THURSDAY MAY 26, 2022, 7 PM MT
(6 PM. PRE-CONCERT DISCUSSION)
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
133 PASEO DEL PUEBLO NORTE
TAOS, NEW MEXCO

In the early 19th century, French entrepreneurs moved to the American southwest and acquired vast tracts of land from the Mexican government. They guaranteed the peasants who settled these lands the same privileges as those at the center of the drama in Grétry and Marmontel’s opera. Conflicts around these rights in the United States have continued to the present day, and this story’s resonance in the New World has inspired Opera Lafayette’s setting of this modern premiere of Silvain. Learn more about the production here.

Join us for a pre-concert discussion with Sylvia Rodriguez, Maria Mondragon Valdez, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hernández Velasco, and Ms. Michaels at 6 p.m. GMT.

Attendance is free to the public, but reservations are recommended. Donations to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico are encouraged.

This event is part of Opera Lafayette’s New Mexico Residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.

SCREENING OF TITIXE
AN AWARD-WINNING FILM BY MEXICAN FILMMAKER
TANIA HERNÁNDEZ VELASCO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 7 P.M. GMT
TAOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
133 PASEO DEL PUEBLO NORTE
TAOS, NEW MEXCO

A mourning tree, dancing sprouts, ghosts, stories and forgotten seeds. This is a Mexican family’s very last attempt to cultivate their land.The last peasant of a family has died and with him, all wisdom to till the soil has been lost. Without experience, his daughter and granddaughter will attempt a last traditional harvest to try to convince Grandma, the widow of the peasant, to keep their plot of land. Together they will uncover the leftovers (locally known as the titixe) of this man and his world: a mourning tree, dancing sprouts, the language of clouds, ghosts, stories and the endless menace of losing the crops to a tempest. This is an intimate mosaic of the last harvest of a Mexican family, in a country that has forsaken its rural origins.

Attendance is free to the public, but reservations are recommended. Donations to Rio Grande Farm Park are encouraged.  

Please join Opera Lafayette and Ryan Brown in the Hill Center’s East Garden for a free concert celebrating the announcement of our 2022 Season! Joining Ryan will be the familiar faces of soprano Pascale Beaudin, bassist Doug Baillett, and pianist Jeffery Watson along with Opera Lafayette newcomers, tenor Arnold Livingston Geis and guitarist Dylan Kober. With works from the 18th through 20th centuries, this short program presents both familiar and rediscovered treasures. 

Socially distanced seating will be available at this casual, afternoon event. We look forward to seeing you there.

Access is free but registration is requested below.

The Hill Center
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Thursday, September 9, 2021
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Curtain: 7:30 p.m.
The Barns at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
1635 Trap Road
Vienna, VA 22182

This performance will observe the COVID-19 policies and guidelines as determined by Wolf Trap. Please review current guidelines here before purchasing your tickets.

Attire matching the event's theme (Denim & Diamonds) is strongly encouraged.

Join us for a celebration, Denim & Diamonds: The Blacksmith at Wolf Trap! The evening will boast a performance of La Maréchal ferrant / The Blacksmith , pre-show cocktails, a special opening performance by Grammy and Emmy-winning banjo artist Dom Flemons, and a post-show champagne and dessert celebration where we will unveil our 2022 season.

Presenting

Le Maréchal Ferrant / The Blacksmith (1761)

François-André Danican Philidor, Composer
English Translation By Nick Olcott
Adaptation By Nick Olcott and Ryan Brown

From the French Libretto By François-Antoine Quétant

Recapturing the humor and immediacy of the original, Nick Olcott and Ryan Brown have adapted Philidor’s opéra comique Le marechal ferrant into the late 19th-century American West. Opéra comique originally integrated French vaudeville songs, allowing for audience sing-alongs. Honoring this, Brown has woven in popular American folk songs of the time. This fully-staged production bridges country and city, celebrates rural themes, and invites the audience to participate by joining in singing familiar folk songs. Do not miss what Opera Canada dubbed, “Ninety welcome minutes of charm and cheer.”

The production features the return of Joshua Conyers, Dominique Côté, Pascale Beaudin, Arnold Livingston Geis, and Frank Kelley each of whom will reprise their roles for this Washington, DC premiere. New to the cast and making her Opera Lafayette main stage debut is Ashley Marie Robillard. The orchestra features Ryan Brown on his fiddle, Grammy-winner Dom Flemons, guitar, Denver native Dylan Kober, guitar, and Doug Balliett, contrabass, previously heard with Opera Lafayette in An Evening of Monteverdi.   This performance is like “…nothing you have ever seen from Opera Lafayette, or anyone else for that matter,” writes Mike Rogers of Opera Gene. 

Tickets for the event are being sold through Wolf Trap’s Box Office, or you may support us directly by purchasing a benefit ticket here:

Pre and Post-Show Celebrations

Featuring

The Critics Have Spoken