OperaLafayette.org
Title
Opera Lafayette - An American opera company dedicated to opera before 1800.
Description
producing a series of chamber concerts in the Salon Doré, an 18th century drawing room in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC. In the following seasons, the ensemble grew to produce larger works in various venues around the city and quickly established a reputation for excellence. As part of its artistic development, The Violins of Lafayette gave particular attention to performances of opera, both semi-staged and in concert. In 1998 the ensemble produced Charpentier’s Actéon; in 1999, Rameau’s Pygmalion in the statuary hall of the Corcoran Gallery; and in 2000, Lully’s opera-ballet Acis et Galatée with the New York Baroque Dance Company at the Embassy of France.
In the 2001-2002 season the newly named Opera Lafayette was invited to be a part of the inaugural season of the new Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. Opera Lafayette’s performance of the 1774 Paris version of Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt was greeted by the public and press with unanimous acclaim and began an ongoing collaboration with the Center involving both the presentation of performances of 17
century opera as well as a series of recordings in the extraordinary acoustics of the Center’s Dekelboum hall. In the 2001-2002 season Opera Lafayette also performed scenes from Charpentier and Moliere’s Le Malade Imaginaire in collaboration with the Redwoods Festival in California, following a tour of Handel’s Acis and Galatea there in collaboration with The Four Nations Ensemble. In subsequent seasons Opera Lafayette produced Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie in concert, and Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna, its first Italian opera, in a semi-staged production directed by Leon Major.
Languages
English
Additional Information
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- Andrew Appel
- Baroque
- Catherine Turocy
- Chamber
- Charpentier
- Classical
- Congreve
- Corcoran Gallery
- Corelli
- Couperin
- Ensemble
- Gluck
- Jean Paul Fouchecourt
- Lully
- Moliere
- Music
- Opera
- Opera Lafayette
- Period
- Rameau
- Ryan Brown
- Santa Rosa
- Sonoma County
- Styles
- Summer Festival
- Symphony
- The Four Nations Ensemble
- The Redwoods Festival
- The Violins Of Lafayette
- United States
- Vineyard
- Washington Dc
- Wine
- Winery
- Arts and Entertainment
- Jean-Paul Fouchecourt
- North America
- Regional
- Washington, DC
- Washington DC