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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Annalisa Pappano, 513.772.3242, [email protected], or visit www.catacoustic.com What: World Premiere of Baroque Opera: La Fête du Ruel When: 7:30PM, Saturday, June 4, 2016 Where: First Unitarian Church, 536 Linton Street, Cincinnati (Avondale), OH 45219 Free parking is available in the parking lot on the left on Linton. Tickets: Individual tickets are $25 general. Tickets are available at the door, in advance by calling 513.772.3242, or at www.catacoustic.com.
Catacoustic will perform a world premiere opera by one of the greatest composers of Baroque-era France, Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Performers are Grammy award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan, Jason McStoots, Melissa Harvey, Molly Quinn, Aaron Cain, harpsichordist Christopher Bagan, theorbist Daniel Swenberg, and viol players Annalisa Pappano (conductor, viol), Joanna Blendulf, Erica Rubis, Stephen Goist, & David Ellis, with stage direction by Emma Griffin.
La Fête du Ruel was commissioned in 1685 by the Duc de Richelieu to honor King Louis XIV. Its intended debut was cancelled, however, and it has never been performed to this day. The opera was originally to have been a carefully-planned extravaganza, with Charpentier sketching staging ideas into his score. It would have been the culmination of an all-night garden party, beginning at dawn, with the music proclaiming the rising of the sun just as the sun actually rose. The Sun King, however, turned his attention to other courtiers at the last minute, leaving Richelieu with debts and a lot of food he invited his neighbors to come and help him eat. This music was buried for 330 years, waiting to be heard.
This chamber opera runs under one hour and will be paired with a well-known cantata, also by Charpentier, “Le Reniement de St. Pierre.” The cantata will be newly reconstructed with instrumental music, never before performed in this version. Both works will therefore be receiving their first-ever performances.
