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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Music and mythology

Booking and details

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Dates Fri, Apr 12 – Sun, Apr 14, 2024

Duration 1 hour 45 minutes, with intermission

Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an inspiration to composers over the centuries, is the basis for incandescent cantatas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, including his retelling of the epic of Orpheus and Eurydice.

A genre unique to the Baroque, a cantata resembles a mini-opera for one or two voices, complete with recitatives and arias.

We turn to this marvelous music of 18th-century France to close our 2023-24 season. This is music that encompasses graceful and simple vocal melodies with virtuosic embellishments and inventive harmonies in a wonderful dramatic style.

Joining a featured soprano will be a quartet of violin, traverso, viola da gamba, and harpsichord, performing works by Marais and Leclair, and featuring one of Telemann’s masterful Paris Quartets.

Artists

Amy Nicole Broadbent

Soprano

Amy Nicole Broadbent

Tatiana Chulochnikova

Violin

Tatiana Chulochnikova

Robert Eisenstein
Robert Eisenstein

Viola da Gamba

Robert Eisenstein

Rodrigo Tarraza

Flute

Rodrigo Tarraza

Webb Wiggins

Harpsichord

Webb Wiggins

Artistic Directors

Robert Eisenstein
Robert Eisenstein

Robert Eisenstein

Christopher Kendall
Christopher Kendall

Christopher Kendall

Folger Consort Sponsors

Premier Season Sponsor

Dr. Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite
Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky

Production Sponsor

Gail Orgelfinger and Charles Hanna

Contributing Sponsor

Mr. Leslie Taylor

Associate Sponsor

Robert J. and Tina M. Tallaksen

Artist Sponsor

Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel

Pre-concert discussion
Friday, April 12

Join Christopher Kendall and Robert Eisenstein, co-Artistic Directors of the Folger Consort, for a lively discussion with guest artists from 7:00pm-7:30pm before the Friday, April 12 performance.

Free entry with concert ticket.

A vintage Folger Consort recording

Listen to Folger Consort’s album The Tempest on Spotify.

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