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Jewels of the Baroque
Vertical Player Repertory's miniatures behind the door presents Opera Feroce and friends in JEWELS OF THE BAROQUE, the latest episode in the Incontro Barocco salon series.
Creative dress encouraged! A prize for the best costume!
In this new episode of the Incontro Barocco series, an uptight baroque band and an unruly troupe of singers are hired to entertain at the home of a wealthy family with pretensions to nobility. A nod to the salon concert, Jewels of the Baroque is a gleefully assembled smorgasbord of instrumental and vocal works trespassing across genres, styles and national boundaries. Singers and instrumentalists alike are costumed in High Baroque style, and the audience is shown more than a glimpse of the rivalry, revelry, and repartee among the players. Featured will be vocal and instrumental music of Janequin, Monteverdi, Caprioli, Krieger, Handel, Porpora, Hasse, C.P.E. Bach, Telemann and Rameau, and even a peek into the future with an offering by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Afternoon tea will be served.
Performed by sopranos Beth Anne Hatton and Judith Barnes, mezzo soprano Hayden DeWitt, and countertenor Alan Dornak, accompanied by Joseph Trent (Traverso), Vita Wallace (Baroque Violin), Kelly Savage (Harpsichord), Motomi Igarashi (Viola da gamba) and Mark Ettinger (Viola da gamba). Also featured are soprano Allegra Durante and actors Deborah Wright Houston and Isidore Elias. Costumes by Deborah Wright Houston and Allegra Durante.
ABOUT OPERA FEROCE
Opera Feroce is an opera company in miniature whose works are lively explorations of the Baroque zeitgeist, reframing the musical and dramatic forms of the era in ways that delight and inform modern audiences. Opera Feroce made its debut in 2011 with the pasticcio opera Amor & Psyche, co-developed and premiered by Vertical Player Repertory as part of Playthings of the Gods. "a sophisticated evening, the musical learning concealed behind a façade of funthe costumes are supremely elegant, the sets minimal, the props winningly silly, and the performers get to mug merrily instead of just standing there being all, like, Early Music formal." (Parterre Box)
ABOUT VERTICAL PLAYER REPERTORY
A pioneer of the alternative opera movement in New York City, Vertical Player Repertory creates ensemble-driven opera theatre in extraordinary venues. Founded in 1998 in a Brooklyn storefront, VPR's unconventional spirit has informed an eclectic mix of repertoire from the 17th to the 21st centuries, staged in locations that have ranged from a factory courtyard on the Gowanus Canal to the last active shipping port in Brooklyn. The ongoing performance series miniatures behind the door offers vocal recitals, instrumental concerts and theater in VPR's storefront, Behind the Door, described by The New York Times as "one of the most intimate spaces for opera in all New York."
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LocationBehind the Door (View)
219 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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