Information
- Members:
- Ryan Brown, Conductor & Artistic Director
- Genre:
- 17th and 18th Century Opera, performed on period instruments
- Hometown:
- Washington, DC
- Record Label:
- Naxos
Events
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- Gluck's "Armide"
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Monday, February 1 at 7:00pm - Gluck's "Armide"
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hal...
Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00pm - Sancho Pança
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
Monday, May 24 at 7:30pm
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Opera Lafayette
Ryan Brown, conductor and artistic director
Gluck's "Armide" is one of the masterpieces of the 18th century, intense and psychologically complex, yet grand in its proportions. With this opera, Gluck both looks back to the tradition of lyric tragedy established by Lully and anticipates the romanticism of Berlioz and Wag...ner. The story unfolds as a beautiful Muslim sorceress, Armide, is ready to kill her mortal enemy Renaud, a Christian knight, only to find herself falling hopelessly in love with him. She spirits him away to her pleasure garden, but Renaud's comrades soon find him and convince him to follow his duty and return to battle. As Renaud leaves, Armide, in despair, turns her enchanted palace into a barren desert. A truly extraordinary cast brings Gluck's ravishing music to life and the New York Baroque Dance Company creates the visual spectacle in this concert production with dance, chorus, and orchestra.
Performed in French with English surtitles.
CAST
Armide - Dominique Labelle
Renaud - William Burden (Washington debut)
La Haine - Stephanie Houtzeel
Sidonie, Lucinde - Judith van Wanroij (Washington debut)
Phénice, Mélisse - Nathalie Paulin
Artémidore, Le Chevalier Danois - Robert Getchell
Hidraot - William Sharp
Aronte, Ubalde - Darren Perry
With: New York Baroque Dance Company, Catherine Turocy, artistic director and choreographer, Members of the Opera Lafayette Young Artists Program, Chorus, and Orchestra
In celebration of Opera Lafayette's 15th Anniversary, all tickets are $15
Time:7:00PM Monday, February 1st
Location:Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Opera Lafayette
Ryan Brown, conductor and artistic director
Gluck's "Armide" is one of the masterpieces of the 18th century, intense and psychologically complex, yet grand in its proportions. With this opera, Gluck both looks back to the tradition of lyric tragedy established by Lully and anticipates the romanticism of Berlioz and Wag...ner. The story unfolds as a beautiful Muslim sorceress, Armide, is ready to kill her mortal enemy Renaud, a Christian knight, only to find herself falling hopelessly in love with him. She spirits him away to her pleasure garden, but Renaud's comrades soon find him and convince him to follow his duty and return to battle. As Renaud leaves, Armide, in despair, turns her enchanted palace into a barren desert. A truly extraordinary cast brings Gluck's ravishing music to life and the New York Baroque Dance Company creates the visual spectacle in this concert production with dance, chorus, and orchestra.
Performed in French with English surtitles.
CAST
Armide - Dominique Labelle
Renaud - William Burden (Washington debut)
La Haine - Stephanie Houtzeel
Sidonie, Lucinde - Judith van Wanroij (Washington debut)
Phénice, Mélisse - Nathalie Paulin
Artémidore, Le Chevalier Danois - Robert Getchell
Hidraot - William Sharp
Aronte, Ubalde - Darren Perry
With: New York Baroque Dance Company, Catherine Turocy, artistic director and choreographer, Members of the Opera Lafayette Young Artists Program, Chorus, and Orchestra
In celebration of Opera Lafayette's 15th Anniversary, all tickets are $15
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, February 3rd
Location:Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Opera Lafayette
Ryan Brown, conductor and artistic director
François-André Philidor's "Sancho Pança, Gouverneur dans l'Isle de Barataria" is a French "opéra bouffon" in which a cast of hilarious "commedia dell'Arte"-inspired characters plot to cure Sancho of his delusions of grandeur. This opera, highly popular in Europe in its time, ...will have its first showing in the United States, 247 years after it was written. The performance will be semi-staged and features the brilliant young baritone Darren Perry in the title role. The original script in English is by Nick Olcott, based on the comedy by Poinsinet, and stage direction is by Catherine Turocy.
Sung in French with English surtitles and dialogue.
CAST
Sancho Pança - Darren Perry
Thérèse - Ah Young Hong
Lope Tocho, Le Fermier - Karim Sulayman
Juliette, La Bergère - Meghan McCall
Le Docteur, Don Crispinos - Tony Boutté
Torillos - Eric C. Black
With actor John Lescault, members of Opera Lafayette's Young Artists Program, and the Opera Lafayette Orchestra
RECENT ACTIVITY
Opera Lafayette added the album Zélindor, roi des Sylphes to their discography.
Opera Lafayette added the album Armide to their discography.
