FULL Storms, Shipwrecks & Sorcery Brainerd MN 2024 Nola Richardson
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Storms, Shipwrecks & Sorcery   
- Composer: varioua  
- Libretto: various  
- Venue & Opera Company: Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts, Brainerd, Minnesota  
- Recorded: July 31, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Nola Richardson
- Conductor:   
- Orchestra: Baroque Instrumental Ensemble  
- Stage Director:   
- Costume Designer:   
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Lakes Area Music Festival  
- Date Published: 2024  
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  
- Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Storms, Shipwrecks, and Sorcery is a fantastical journey through some of the most dramatic music of the 17th and 18th centuries. This program evokes both literal storms and clouds of rage. Guest soprano Nola Richardson stunningly portrays two sorceresses scorned, both the anguished Armida from Handel’s Armida Abbandonata and the vengeful Médée, namesake of Clérambault’s masterpiece. Artistic advisor and curator Chloe Fedor performs the dizzying La Tempesta di Mare, Vivaldi’s violin concerto depicting a storm at sea.
Program:
JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER:Die Fechtschule (The Fencing School)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL:Armida Abbandonata
JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER:Lamento sopra la morte di Ferdinando III
ANTONIO VIVALDI:Violin Concerto Op. 8, No. 5, Tempesta di Mare (Tempest of the Sea)
GIOVANNI BATTISTA BUONAMENTE:Sonata for Three Violins
HENRY PURCELL:Three Parts Upon a Ground
MATTHEW LOCKE:Curtain Tune from The Tempest
LOUIS-NICOLAS CLÉRAMBAULT:Médée
HENRY PURCELL:Chaconne from The Fairy Queen