Tjems: Ghosts Of Hamlet, Le Concert De L'hostel Dieu at Fairchild Theatre

Taylor Johnston Early Music Series
The legend of Prince Hamlet is the basis for Shakespeare’s tragedy, but in the 18th century, the same tale inspired numerous Italian operas. Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, known for riveting performances of French Baroque music, presents a semi-staged evening of arias based on long-lost scores by Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries. Soprano Roberta Mameli, accompanied by a small string ensemble with harpsichord, portrays the romantic Veremonda (Shakespeare’s Ophelia) and Gerilda (Gertrude), Hamlet’s mother, who is torn between love for her son and passion for her cold and unfaithful husband. ...

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Taylor Johnston Early Music Series
The legend of Prince Hamlet is the basis for Shakespeare’s tragedy, but in the 18th century, the same tale inspired numerous Italian operas. Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, known for riveting performances of French Baroque music, presents a semi-staged evening of arias based on long-lost scores by Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries. Soprano Roberta Mameli, accompanied by a small string ensemble with harpsichord, portrays the romantic Veremonda (Shakespeare’s Ophelia) and Gerilda (Gertrude), Hamlet’s mother, who is torn between love for her son and passion for her cold and unfaithful husband. 
 
Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu was created in 1992 and performed its first concert on the grounds of the centuries-old medical institution, the Grand Hôtel-Dieu in Lyons, France. The ensemble concerts and recordings are well known across France and abroad for transposing the diversity of Baroque music into the modern era. 
 
Video Preview: https://youtu.be/B0-R4j5bts0?si=55CuLBfkgpHtXFJC
 

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