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New Yale opera group will debut with a performance of 17th-century music
The newly established Yale Baroque Opera Project will present its first production, “Ardo,
Ardo: Monteverdi in Motion,” on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11,
at 4 p.m. in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St.
“Ardo, Ardo” (“I burn, I burn” — words that recur
throughout the text of the librettos) is a theatrical entertainment created from
a series of madrigals and other dramatic works by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643).
“Monteverdi was both the last great madrigalist and the first great opera
composer,” says Ellen Rosand, the George A. Saden Professor of Music. “Famously
dubbed by one recent historian as ‘the creator of modern music,’ he
was especially renowned in his own time for his powerful sense of drama and his
profound understanding of human passions, both qualities that speak eloquently
to audiences today.”
Conceived by Richard Lalli, musical director of the Yale Baroque Opera Project
and professor of music, “Ardo, Ardo” aims to combine the theatrical
impact of an opera with the lyrical flow of a dance concert. Yale College senior
Ethan Heard directs the performance. Choreographers include Lalli, Heard and
undergraduates from Yaledancers.
More than 35 costumed singers and dancers will be joined by an early music ensemble
playing on strings, theorbo, lute, harp and harpsichord. Performers come from
a variety of campus groups, including the Yale Schola Cantorum, directed by Simon
Carrington, and the Yale Voxtet, directed by James Taylor, both supported by
the Institute of Sacred Music; and the Yale Collegium Players, directed by Robert
Mealy, as well as other undergraduate singers and dancers.
Performances are free, and the public is welcome. Reservations and tickets are
not required; doors will open 30 minutes before each performance.
The Yale Baroque Opera Project was established this September to introduce Yale
College students to the aesthetic, stylistic and performance aspects of 17th-century
Italian opera. During each semester for the next three years, the project will
present a performance of music from this period featuring undergraduate musicians.
For more information, contact ybop@yale.edu.
The Yale Baroque Opera Project is funded through a Distinguished Achievement
Award given to Rosand by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rosand’s definitive
work, “Opera in 17th-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre,” has
just been released in paperback. Her newest book, “Monteverdi’s Last
Operas,” will be published later this year.
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