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25/26 season concerts: Watch all Zilkha Hall concert livestreams and replays
Bach’s Divine Comedy (9/19)
Love Untamed (10/25)
Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (3/14)
Monteverdi’s Orfeo (5/30)
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Opera Offerings
Amadigi di Gaula (May 25, 2024)
The Houston premiere of Handel’s magic opera Amadigi di Gaula. A new, fully staged production with stage direction by Tara Faircloth and music direction by Matthew Dirst. Featuring Randall Scotting (Amadigi), Nola Richardson (Oriana), Raven McMillon (Melissa), and Nicholas Garza (Dardano). Run time: 1.5 hours
Dido and Aeneas (May 21, 2022)
Ars Lyrica Houston’s original production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with stage direction and choreography by Catherine Turocy. Featuring Abigail Fischer (Dido), Mark Diamond (Aeneas), Alexandra Smither (Belinda), Nicholas Garza (Sorceress), The New York Baroque Dance Company, and The Moores School Concert Chorale with preparation by Betsy Weber.
Concert Offerings
"Ars Lyrica opens its season with Fallen Angels, a dramatic evening of beautiful singing accompanied by authentic period instruments, celebrating what Artistic Director Matthew Dirst and harpsichord master describes as 'the paranormal in Baroque music.'” (Houston CityBook) Run time: 2 hours
An all-French Baroque program showcasing soprano Lauren Snouffer and a select ensemble of period-instrument specialists. Visions and Reveries features lyric cantatas on mythological themes by Jacquet de la Guerre and Rameau, and an instrumental suite by Couperin. Run time: 1 hour 50 min
Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno (March 26, 2023)
A delightful musical romp, Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno includes spectacular arias that the composer later borrowed for his Italian operas. A cast of young operatic stars, all singing en travesti as the opposite gender, brings a new twist to this timeless story of a wily shepherdess and her two suitors. Featuring countertenor Key'mon Murrah (Clori), soprano Lauren Snouffer (Tirsi,) and contralto Cecelia McKinley (Fileno).
Red Priest of Venice (November 12, 2022)
This virtuosic tribute to Antonio Vivaldi, the famous “Red Priest” of Venice, features breathtaking concerti from this pioneer of the genre, colorful arias from a 1735 operatic pastiche, and his beloved setting of the Stabat Mater for solo voice and strings, performed by countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen.