Melissa Dunphy's Gonzales Cantata and
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
A co-production with American Opera Theater
and Peabody Conservatory Opera
February 4, 5, & 11, 2011 at 8pm
February 13, 2011 at 5pm
Baltimore Theatre Project
45 West Preston Street, Baltimore 21201
Sophie-Louise Roland mezzo-soprano
Chandos Singers of Handel Choir of Baltimore
Ignoti Dei Baroque Orchestra
Timothy Nelson artistic director
Melinda O'Neal conductor
Advanced purchase and at-the-door single tickets: $30
Melissa Dunphy’s Gonzales Cantata
In her 2008 Gonzales Cantata, Melissa Dunphy sets to music, in the style of a Handel oratorio, the transcript of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' congressional hearings. The concert version garnered immediate national attention in the Wall Street Journal and Rachel Maddow Show for its musical witticism, comedic brilliance, and sheer bravura. We present its world première as a fully staged production.
Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
In a remarkable feat of double casting, AOT Artistic Director Timothy Nelson turns Purcell’s only full opera into an exploration of human psychological turmoil. Starring Sophie-Louise Roland in a tour-de-force as the title character and her rival.
All programs of the Handel Choir of Baltimore are made possible by support from the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.