Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Jim Lucassen, director & set designer
Lyric fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
A production originally from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
First performed in Frankfurt, September 8 2013
Lauritano will sing the role of the 3rd Dryad.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Jim Lucassen, director & set designer
Lyric fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
A production originally from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
First performed in Frankfurt, September 8 2013
Lauritano will sing the role of the 3rd Dryad.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Jim Lucassen, director & set designer
Lyric fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
A production originally from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
First performed in Frankfurt, September 8 2013
Lauritano will sing the role of the 3rd Dryad.
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns with an all-new production of Francesca Caccini's, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Lauritano will sing the role of Melissa.
Alcina depicts a struggle between illusion and destiny in a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit and magic. At the center is the sorceress Alcina, an intensely demanding role which Caccini designed as a dramatic vehicle for herself as a singing actress.
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns with an all-new production of Francesca Caccini's, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Lauritano will sing the role of Melissa.
Alcina depicts a struggle between illusion and destiny in a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit and magic. At the center is the sorceress Alcina, an intensely demanding role which Caccini designed as a dramatic vehicle for herself as a singing actress.
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns with an all-new production of Francesca Caccini's, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Lauritano will sing the role of Melissa.
Alcina depicts a struggle between illusion and destiny in a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit and magic. At the center is the sorceress Alcina, an intensely demanding role which Caccini designed as a dramatic vehicle for herself as a singing actress.
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series returns with an all-new production of Francesca Caccini's, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Lauritano will sing the role of Melissa.
Alcina depicts a struggle between illusion and destiny in a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit and magic. At the center is the sorceress Alcina, an intensely demanding role which Caccini designed as a dramatic vehicle for herself as a singing actress.
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Vincent Boussard, director
Opera seria in three parts
Libretto by Carlo Pepoli
First performed January 24 1835, Théâtre-Italien, Paris
Co-production with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie — Liège, NEW PRODUCTION
Lauritano will the sing the role of Enrichetta di Francia.
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Vincent Boussard, director
Opera seria in three parts
Libretto by Carlo Pepoli
First performed January 24 1835, Théâtre-Italien, Paris
Co-production with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie — Liège, NEW PRODUCTION
Lauritano will the sing the role of Enrichetta di Francia.
Hartmut Keil, conductor
Claus Guth, director
Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Victor Léon & Leo Stein
World premiere: December 28 1905, Teater an der Wien
1st performance of this production May 13 2018
Lauritano will sing the role of Olga.
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Vincent Boussard, director
Opera seria in three parts
Libretto by Carlo Pepoli
First performed January 24 1835, Théâtre-Italien, Paris
Co-production with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie — Liège, NEW PRODUCTION
Lauritano will the sing the role of Enrichetta di Francia.
Hartmut Keil, conductor
Claus Guth, director
Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Victor Léon & Leo Stein
World premiere: December 28 1905, Teater an der Wien
1st performance of this production May 13 2018
Lauritano will sing the role of Olga.
Mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano and pianist Andrew Sun, winners of the nation’s premiere annual competition for song recitals, perform on a national tour in London, New York City, Chicago, and Santa Barbara.
Program to include a world premiere song cycle written by acclaimed American composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, commissioned by Music Academy of the West.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano and pianist Andrew Sun, winners of the nation’s premiere annual competition for song recitals, perform on a national tour in London, New York City, Chicago, and Santa Barbara.
Program to include a world premiere song cycle written by acclaimed American composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, commissioned by Music Academy of the West.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Damiano Michieletto, director
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer
First performed August 18 1912, Opera House, Frankfurt am Main
Ms. Lauritano will sing the role of the Spanish Woman.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Jim Lucassen, director & set designer
Lyric fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
A production originally from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
First performed in Frankfurt, September 8 2013
Lauritano will sing the role of the 3rd Dryad.
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
Jim Lucassen, director & set designer
Lyric fairy tale in three acts
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
A production originally from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
First performed in Frankfurt, September 8 2013
Lauritano will sing the role of the 3rd Dryad.
James Conlon, conductor
James Darrah, director
The Music Academy of the West’s 71st annual Summer Festival presents a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Lauritano will sing the role of Cherubino.
James Conlon, conductor
James Darrah, director
The Music Academy of the West’s 71st annual Summer Festival presents a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Lauritano will sing the role of Cherubino.
Seven finalists in each tier (I & II) will compete in front of a live audience, which will include representatives from California performing arts organizations. The first place winner in Tier I will have the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Oakland Symphony under Music Director Michael Morgan.
5th Annual JTVA Competition
Tier I & Tier II singers will participate in master classes on June 15, 2018. Mezzo-soprano Jamie barton will teach the seven Tier I finalists.
Caitlyn Koester, harpsichord
Adam Young, viola da gamba
Cameron Richardson-Eames, piano
Nathaniel LeNasa, piano
Program to include Purcell, Handel, Schubert, Faure, Ravel and Adès.
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Stephen Wadsworth, director
Zack Winokur, choreographer
Hippolyte et Aricie was the first tragédie-lyrique composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The opera had its premiere by the Académie Royale de Musique at the Palais-Royal in Paris on October 1, 1733. Stephen Stubbs will conduct the Juilliard singers and period-ensemble Juilliard415, and Stephen Wadsworth will direct this original, new production of Rameau’s opera.
Ms. Lauritano will perform the role of Diane.
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Stephen Wadsworth, director
Zack Winokur, choreographer
Hippolyte et Aricie was the first tragédie-lyrique composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The opera had its premiere by the Académie Royale de Musique at the Palais-Royal in Paris on October 1, 1733. Stephen Stubbs will conduct the Juilliard singers and period-ensemble Juilliard415, and Stephen Wadsworth will direct this original, new production of Rameau’s opera.
Ms. Lauritano will perform the role of Diane.
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Stephen Wadsworth, director
Zack Winokur, choreographer
Hippolyte et Aricie was the first tragédie-lyrique composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The opera had its premiere by the Académie Royale de Musique at the Palais-Royal in Paris on October 1, 1733. Stephen Stubbs will conduct the Juilliard singers and period-ensemble Juilliard415, and Stephen Wadsworth will direct this original, new production of Rameau’s opera.
Ms. Lauritano will perform the role of Diane.
Michael Linville, conductor
Circles is a 20 minute composition for female voice, harp and two percussionists by the Italian composer, Luciano Berio. Written in 1960 Circles is a setting of three poems by E.E. Cummings, including the poems "Stinging", "Riverly Is a Flower", and "N(o)w".
Included on the program is Cage/Harisson's 'Double Music' and Crumb's 'Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death'.
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
Edward Berkeley, director
Juilliard singers will perform Ravel’s one-act opera L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Juilliard Orchestra. Ms. Lauritano will perform the title role. Other works on the program include Ravel’s Menuet antique and Debussy’s La mer.
