Join us for an engaging online Zoom discussion celebrating Opera Lafayette's distinguished history and looking ahead to its future. Founding Artistic Director Ryan Brown will share insights into the company’s remarkable achievements, including performances at the Royal Opera of Versailles, and will reflect on pivotal moments that established Opera Lafayette as a leader in period-instrument […]
Can you imagine a time before there was Opera Lafayette? Difficult as it may seem, the nation’s oldest period instrument opera company was once only the speck of an idea in the mind of a visionary young violinist, Ryan Brown. Leading the first concert performing French Baroque chamber music in the Corcoran Gallery’s magnificent Salon […]
Can you imagine a time before there was Opera Lafayette? Difficult as it may seem, the nation’s oldest period instrument opera company was once only the speck of an idea in the mind of a visionary young violinist, Ryan Brown. Leading the first concert performing French Baroque chamber music in the Corcoran Gallery’s magnificent Salon […]
Join Artistic Director Patrick Quigley and renowned music scholar Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Director of the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University) for an illuminating look at Henry Purcell’s beloved Dido and Aeneas. Discover how the unique origins of this landmark opera shaped the music, the casting, and the drama […]
Join Opera Lafayette in an engaging pre-performance conversation with Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Director of the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University) for an illuminating […]
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Williams as Dido Purcell’s ground-breaking opera makes its long-awaited Opera Lafayette debut. Mary Elizabeth Williams returns to Opera Lafayette as Dido, the ill-fated Queen of Carthage, following […]
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Williams as Dido Purcell’s ground-breaking opera makes its long-awaited Opera Lafayette debut. Mary Elizabeth Williams returns to Opera Lafayette as Dido, the ill-fated Queen of Carthage, following […]
Join Opera Lafayette in an engaging pre-performance conversation with Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Director of the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University) for an illuminating […]
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Williams as Dido Purcell’s ground-breaking opera makes its long-awaited Opera Lafayette debut. Mary Elizabeth Williams returns to Opera Lafayette as Dido, the ill-fated Queen of Carthage, following […]
Join us for an online discussion with Opera Lafayette Artistic Director Patrick Quigley and Guest Director Nic McGegan as they discuss our upcoming performance of Queen of Hearts. Tickets: Free […]
Queen of Hearts A Valentine’s Day Revel feat. Nic McGegan Celebrate love in all its guises—sensual, humorous, chaste, and tragic—through tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs, […]
Queen of Hearts A Valentine’s Day Revel feat. Nic McGegan Celebrate love in all its guises—sensual, humorous, chaste, and tragic—through tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs, […]
