Opera Lafayette

Happy Birthday to our favorite Frenchman, Marquis de Lafayette! 🎉

Enjoy a look back at our 2009 production of Monsigny’s “Le Deserteur.” Written in 1769, this opera’s success was concurrent with Lafayette’s early life and the American Revolution. Opera Lafayette’s recording of “Le Deserteur” is available on Spotify and YouTube 🎼🎶

ATTN NYC: Do not miss this "all-hands-on-deck extravaganza" Tuesday night at El Museo del Barrio. Few tickets remain. Grab yours before they're gone! (Washington Post)

Tickets/Reviews at www.operalafayette.org/nyc

The fabulous cast of Les Fêtes de Thalie!! Tickets are still available for tonight's show, 7:30 ♥️

Mouret’s Les Fêtes de Thalie premieres tomorrow evening at the Kennedy Center!! Tickets are limited, so be sure to get them now and join the party of the muses 🥳 🎊

Second showing Saturday evening and coming to New York on May 7th!

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A Modern Mouret from Opera Lafayette » Early Music America Jean-Joseph Mouret’s comic 'Les fêtes de Thalie,' an opera-ballet, was a hit in early 18th-c. Paris. Now the period-instrument Opera Lafayette, conducted by Christophe Rousset, is set to give its modern premiere, with a production that's contemporary (and maybe a little zany) in look and choreogr...

PARTNER PROMO:

Check out the Smithsonian Craft Show in DC, right before you join us for our May concerts! It's a premier showcase of 120 artists independently juried to celebrate the very best in American craft and design with profits benefiting the Smithsonian!

Learn more about the full catalog, special events and tickets at www.smithsoniancraftshow.org.

PARTNER PROMO: Our friends at Vocal Arts DC invite you to the debut recital of mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, pianist Keun-A Lee, and bandoneon player JP Jofre.

Mack's program pairs songs from her childhood home, Argentina, with a world premiere by Rene Orth entitled At First, Now, Always. This nine-piece song cycle explores the personal experiences of motherhood with pieces such as "Before You Arrived" and "The Middle of the Night." Other works on the program include pieces by Rossini, Jofre, Lorca, and Chapí.

TICKETS AT: https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/vocal-choral-music/2023-2024/daniela-mack-keun-a-lee-r/

Don't worry, there's still time to join us for our last NY Opera Starts with Oh! tomorrow !!

Join us for dancing, music, and shadowplay! You'll even get to make your own horn to take home 🎺📯

The session begins at 11:00am, and doors open at 10:45am.

Please email [email protected] to register! We can't wait to see you there ❤️

Opera Starts with Oh! tomorrow, April 7th at 11:00am at the fabulous United Palace Theater!!

Join us for an opera extravaganza with dance and music, where the kids will learn choreography and assist in designing a performance! This is perfect for the whole family to enjoy 💗

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Join us tomorrow, Saturday, April 6th, at the Children's Museum of Manhattan for TWO fun filled Opera Starts with Oh! sessions!! 💗

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We can't wait to see you there!

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Join Opera Lafayette at United Palace Theater this SUNDAY, April 7, for some Family Fun!!

Teaching Artist and professional dancer, Julia Bengtsson, will take us through a fantastical opera celebrating Thalie, the Muse of Comedy. Together with our special guest artists, we will dance, sing, and craft with the gods as they battle for the spot of most popular muse!

We can't wait to see you there!

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What a lovely morning for Opera Starts with Oh! at Tregaron Conservancy 😊

A big shout out to our teaching artist Sarah Laughland for leading us through the song and dance of Les Fetes de Thalie!!

Looking for something fun to do this weekend? On Sunday, our friends at the Washington Bach Consort are presenting 'Te Deum'!
Please use promo code TeDeumOpera to receive 20% off regularly priced tickets. *This offer is for one-time use and cannot be retroactively applied to previously purchased tickets.

J.S. Bach drew from the best of a variety of established European musical styles and combined them in his own unique voice. This concert will highlight influential composers of the French Baroque, featuring sacred grand motets of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704). Charpentier’s magnificent Te Deum will head a list of exquisite works that reflect the magnificence of French courtly and ecclesiastical grandeur.

In the midst of a busy and rewarding rehearsal week! -- Join us this Thursday at for 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩-𝘾𝙮𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙨: 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙡’𝙨 𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧.

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Soprano, Paulina Francisco, takes over our Instagram this week leading up to our performance "From Saint-Cyr to Cannons: Moreau and Handel’s Esther" coming to the Kennedy Center on February 8th!!

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Bravo Justin!!

We can't wait to hear you perform with us on February 9th in DC for our Esther program! ❤️

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"Both Ashworth and Woody thrilled in the extravagant melismas of this cantata’s fast aria, “Courez, ravagez la terre,” guided by the consummate musicality of Rousset’s judiciously rendered continuo playing." - Washington Classical Review
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A big thank you to all who came out last evening for this wonderful performance!
Now to New York for our second night of Couperin!

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Join Opera Lafayette on World Opera Day!!
There is still time to get your tickets to tonight's performance of 'Couperin le Grand' starting at 7:30pm in The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, featuring acclaimed harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset as he makes his Opera Lafayette harpsichord debut!



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Get tickets for our season's fully-staged production, a modern premiere of Mouret's "Les Fêtes de Thalie," a series of operatic acts with dance that set the standard for a genre that came to be known as the opera ballet. This opera was originally performed around the time Louis XIV died in an attempt to lighten the mood in France. The result was enormously popular and ushered in a period of operatic spectacle that, in the following generation, would result in such familiar works as Rameau's celebrated "Platée." Learn more at www.operalafayette.org/productions

Get tickets for "From Saint-Cyr to Cannons: Moreau and Handel’s Esther," our season's orchestral concert with vocalists. The performance includes works by Jean-Baptiste Moreau (1656-1733) and George Frederic Handel (1685-1759), both connected to French dramatist Jean Racine’s play "Esther," based on the Old Testament story. Moreau wrote the incidental music for Racine’s Esther, which was first performed at Maintenon’s school for girls in 1689, while Handel’s version is known to be his first English oratorio. The concert will be co-directed by harpsichordist and Opera Lafayette Artistic Associate Justin Taylor (Photo: JB Millot) and Jonathan Woody, and feature Margot Rood, Jesse Darden, Jacob Perry and more! Tickets at www.operalafayette.org/productions

We are honored to welcome Christophe Rousset (founder and director of one of France's most distinguished early music ensembles, Les Talens Lyriques) this season. Rousset will make his Opera Lafayette harpsichord debut in the first chamber concert of the season, "Couperin le Grand." He will then direct our fully-staged modern premiere of Mouret’s "Les Fêtes de Thalie" to close the season. Learn more and get season tickets for DC or NYC now! Link in bio.

Tickets are on sale for Couperin le Grande now. This chamber music concert is devoted to the work of François Couperin (1668-1773). The concert will feature the acclaimed harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset (Les Talens Lyriques), Opera Lafayette Artistic Associates violinist Jacob Ashworth (photo credit Russ Rowland), and bass baritone Jonathan Woody. The repertoire will include Ariane consolée par Bacchus, a Couperin cantata recently discovered by Rousset, in addition to works by Mouret, Montêclair, and Clérambault. https://oplaf.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/ #/events/a0S8b00000XHGSEEA5

Our 29th Season illuminates the Era of Madame de Maintenon, marking the conclusion of three consecutive Opera Lafayette seasons highlighting the relation of historical women in 18th century France to the musical life of their time. Madame de Maintenon was the last mistress and secret wife of Louis XIV. Her time at Versailles was characterized by private concerts and music of a religious nature. However, after the death of Louis XIV in 1715, comedy and dance spectacle began to reign as a reaction to the dour mood of the king's final years. The musical influence of this period would be felt across Europe for years to come, and as this season will reveal, still carries relevance today. Check out our full season at www.operalafayette.org/productions

We are thrilled to announce our 2023/24 Season: The Era of Madame de Maintenon. Our 29th season, performed fully in DC and NYC, will present a chamber music concert "Couperin le Grand," featuring Christophe Rousset, an orchestral concert with vocalists "From Saint-Cyr to Cannons: Moreau and Handel’s Esther," featuring Justin Taylor, Jonathan Woody, Margot Rood, and a fully-staged modern premiere of Mouret’s "Les Fêtes de Thalie" not to be missed! Tickets on sale now! www.operalafayette.org/productions