2023-24 Concert Season

From Rome with Love: Songs from the Italian Baroque

Saturday, May 11 2024, 7:30pm - Town Hall Seattle

Sunday, May 12 2024, 3pm - St. Stephen’s Episcopal

Rome in the 17^th century was the epicenter of a new and lyrical song culture led by Luigi Rossi. It was Rossi’s Opera L’Orfeo that burst onto the Parisian stage in 1647 and ushered in the conquest of the rest of Europe by Italian Opera. A half century later when the brilliant young German composer Handel sought to complete his musical education, he made a bee-line for Rome and created some of his greatest vocal masterpieces there.

Star soprano Amanda Forsythe takes us on a tour of Rome’s greatest hits from Rossi to Handel in a concert full of virtuosity and passion.

Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Stephen Stubbs, lute and guitar, director
Maxine Eilander, baroque harp
David Morris, viola da gamba and cello

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