Join Us for Boston Baroque’s
2009–2010 Season
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Friday, Oct. 16, 7:30 pm
Saturday, Oct. 17, 7:30 pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
Handel
AMADIGI di Gaula
Semi-staged. Sung in Italian. English titles.
Stage direction by Paul Peers.
Handel's beautiful, intimate AMADIGI di Gaula brings us love
in all its glory — burning, tender, passionate, jealous, raging . . . and answered.
With just four principals, this concise, human-scale work is also a living,
breathing piece of theater with a score of great freshness and vitality.
One of Handel's "magic" operas, AMADIGI features a love-sick Sorceress
obsessed with the chivalrous knight Amadigi.
The title role will be sung by LEAH WOOL and the Sorceress by AVA PINE,
two young singers who won critical and audience acclaim in last season's
production of Xerxes. Also featuring MATTHEW WHITE as Amadigi's rival
and MARY WILSON as his one true love.
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Friday, Dec. 11, 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
Boston’s Grammy-nominated
Handel’s MESSIAH
Featuring AMANDA FORSYTHE
In her first performances for Boston Baroque
of the soprano solos in Messiah.
Amanda Forsythe ............ soprano
Ann McMahon Quintero ... mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Wiliford ........... tenor
Timothy Jones ................. baritone
“The history of recording has not seen a
more beautifully styled or elegantly sung
Messiah than this one….a wondrously inte-
grated performance of sparkling freshness.”
—Detroit News & Free Press
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Thursday, Dec. 31, 8:00 pm
Friday, Jan. 1, 3:00 pm
Sanders Theatre, Free Parking
Intermission Champagne Reception
Sponsored by Cambridge Trust Company
GALA NEW YEAR’S EVE & FIRST DAY CONCERTS
A COMIC DOUBLE BILL!
Mozart, Bastien & Bastienne
Cimarosa, The Music Director (Il Maestro di Cappella)
Sung in English
Boston Baroque ushers in the new year
with two sparkling one-act comedies
sure to make you LOL. Soprano Kristen Watson
is the charming shepherdess with a problem lover in
this romantic comedy by a very precocious young
Wolfgang A. Mozart. And baritone David Kravitz wrests the
baton from Martin Pearlman to become Il Maestro di Cappella— the pompous conductor in Cimarosa’s romp, The Music Director.
The orchestra performs Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
The perfect way to celebrate the new year!
Bastienne ... Kristen Watson
Bastien ....... Lawrence Jones
Colas .......... David Kravitz
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Friday, February 19, 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 20, 8:00 pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
MONTEVERDI, VESPERS OF 1610
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of one of
the most moving and monumental works
in the history of music!
“The Vespers is a work of extraordinary emotional power,” says Martin Pearlman, “astonishing for the grandeur of its conception and the opulence of its sound. No other surviving work from that period is written on such a scale, combining the grandest of public music with the most intimate of solo songs.”
Mary Wilson & Kristen Watson, sopranos
Derek Chester, Aaron Sheehan & Lawrence Jones, tenors
Sumner Thompson & Donald Wilkinson, baritones
The Chicago Tribune on Boston Baroque’s Grammy-nominated recording of the Vespers:
“The Pearlman [recording] glows with spiritual
passion and fervor in a way that renews the listener’s
awe at the imagination and immensity of Monteverdi’s
musical achievement.”
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Friday, May 7, 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 8, 8:00 pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall
EXSULTATE, JUBILATE!
The extraordinary male soprano MICHAEL MANIACI sings sacred music and arias that Mozart wrote
for the castrato voice. Includes arias from Lucio Silla, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza di Tito, and the beloved Exsultate, Jubilate. Maniaci recorded this program with
Boston Baroque in January for release in 2010. This is a debut
recording that’s sure to make waves!
In concert, the virtuoso Boston Baroque orchestra will perform opera
overtures and Mozart’s great “Haffner” Symphony.
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