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Salon for “Les Surprises de l’Amour” with Scholar Benjamin Bernard

Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Washington

When Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Surprises de l’Amour premiered at Versailles in 1748, Madame de Pompadour was its impresario and star, and Louis XV sat in the royal box. Join special guest scholar Benjamin Bernard in conversation with Opera Lafayette Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley for the story behind the spectacle: the personalities, ambitions, pleasures, rivalries, and royal […]

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New Woman (NYC)

Merkin Hall 129 W 67th St, New York

New Woman Feat. Lauren Snouffer and the Opera Lafayette Orchestra  Composers Marianna Martines and Maria Antonia Walpurgis defied 18th-century convention by putting women front and center. GRAMMY-nominated soprano Lauren Snouffer takes the stage in this daring solo performance reawakening Talestri, Queen of the Amazons, and Berenice, Princess of Egypt. Lauren also shines in bravura arias by […]

New Woman (DC)

Sixth & I* 600 I St., NW, Washington

New Woman Feat. Lauren Snouffer and the Opera Lafayette Orchestra  Composers Marianna Martines and Maria Antonia Walpurgis defied 18th-century convention by putting women front and center. GRAMMY-nominated soprano Lauren Snouffer takes the stage in this daring solo performance reawakening Talestri, Queen of the Amazons, and Berenice, Princess of Egypt. Lauren also shines in bravura arias by […]