May
8
5:00 PM17:00
RUCKUS at The Frick Collection
Ruckus presents: By George! Music of Telemann and Ligeti
Apr
19
to May 2
Hudson Hall & RUCKUS present: Giulio Cesare
Tickets on sale to members. On sale to the public January 10, 2025
April 19, 23 (matinee), 26, 27 (matinee), 30 (matinee), May 2, 2025
Opera by G.F. Handel, premiered at the King’s Theatre in London, 1724
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Production by R.B. Schlather
With early music band Ruckus
Visionary opera director and Hudson resident R.B. Schlather reunites with early music band Ruckus in April 2025 for six performances of Handel’s baroque blockbuster GIULIO CESARE. Repeating the successful alchemy of RODELINDA (2023), Schlather brings together area residents, rising young stars, and some of the finest baroque interpreters today to share his passion for Handel in the intimacy of New York State’s oldest surviving theater.
Mar
23
3:00 PM15:00
Twelfth Night presents Handel's Aminta e Fillide
Grace’s St. Paul Episcopal Church in TUCSON, ARIZONA
Handel’s “Aminta e Fillide,” featuring soprano Nola Richardson and mezzo-soprano Xenia Puskarz Thomas
Rachell Ellen Wong and David Belkovski return to Tucson, this time with the full band of Twelfth Night and singers Nola Richardson and Xenia Puskarz Thomas, to perform Handel’s 1708 secular cantata Aminta e Fillide. Set in the hills and flower-spotted fields of mythical Arcadia, the cantata tells the story of Aminta, a brash, young shepherd, who is hopelessly in love with the nymph Fillide, whose extraordinary beauty is matched by the hardness of her heart.
“Thomas’s uncommonly dark, creamy mezzo was able to give her opulent voice free rein… projecting a thought behind each ornament…”—Opera News
“Nola Richardson was totally delightful, displaying nimble coloratura and a light voice of penetrating beauty.”—South Florida Classical Review
Mar
21
7:30 PM19:30
Twelfth Night presents Handel's Aminta e Fillide
Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya in SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
TWELFTH NIGHT ENSEMBLE†
Handel’s Aminta e Fillide
Nola Richardson, soprano and Xenia Puskarz Thomas, mezzo-soprano
7:30pm / Mar 21
Twelfth Night, the refreshingly new ensemble of young stars directed by violinist Rachell Ellen Wong and keyboardist David Belkovski, offers a scintillating program featuring Handel’s Aminta e Fillide, a pastoral cantata. Aminta and Fillide, the cantata’s shepherd and nymph, pursue each other through a mythological Greek landscape in arias both virtuosic and poignant. To round out a captivating program, the group performs Vivaldi’s electric sinfonia from his opera, Il Giustino.
† Twelfth Night Ensemble is the EMS 24-25 Ensemble-in-Residence
Feb
25
to Mar 2
Camerata Pacifica Baroque: Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields
Sancho – 12 Country Dances for the year 1779
Handel – Trio Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 4
– Trio Sonata in E Minor, Op. 5, No. 3
– Trio Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 2
Emi Ferguson (Baroque Music Director), Rachell Ellen Wong, RUCKUS
Tuesday the 25th, 7:30 p.m. – The Huntington, San Marino >> TICKETS
Thursday the 27th, 8 p.m. – Colburn School, Los Angeles >> TICKETS
Friday the 28th, 7 p.m. – Music Academy, Santa Barbara >> TICKETS
Sunday, March 2nd, 3 p.m. – Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks >> TICKETS
Feb
16
3:00 PM15:00
RUCKUS: Bach, Telemann, and Ligeti
RUCKUS EARLY MUSIC
Emi Ferguson, baroque flute
Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon
Caitlyn Koester, keyboards
Doug Balliett, baroque bass
Coleman Itzkoff, baroque cello
Paul Holmes Morton, baroque guitars
Adam Cockerham, baroque guitars
Tessa Lark, violin
Works by:
Johann Sebastian Bach, from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 1033, 1034, 1035, and others
G.P. Telemann, from Fantasias
Gyorgy Ligeti, from Musica Ricercata
Realized and reimagined by Emi Ferguson, Ruckus, and Tessa Lark.
Feb
15
5:00 PM17:00
RUCKUS: Bach, Telemann, and Ligeti
RUCKUS EARLY MUSIC
Emi Ferguson, baroque flute
Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon
Caitlyn Koester, keyboards
Doug Balliett, baroque bass
Coleman Itzkoff, baroque cello
Paul Holmes Morton, baroque guitars
Adam Cockerham, baroque guitars
Tessa Lark, violin
Works by:
Johann Sebastian Bach, from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 1033, 1034, 1035, and others
G.P. Telemann, from Fantasias
Gyorgy Ligeti, from Musica Ricercata
Realized and reimagined by Emi Ferguson, Ruckus, and Tessa Lark.
Feb
6
7:00 PM19:00
Premier: Michael Hersch's "and we, each," in New York City
and we, each
a new opera in two acts
presented by Mind on Fire
composed by Michael Hersch
after texts by Shane McCrae
directed by James Matthew Daniel
conducted by Tito Muñoz
featuring Ah Young Hong and Jesse Blumberg
with musicians Emi Ferguson, Gleb Kanasevich, Adda Kridler, Leah Asher, and Coleman Itzkoff
February 6
Mind on Fire is proud to present the upcoming world premiere of Michael Hersch’s new opera, and we, each. The opera, built around the poetry of Shane McCrae, is an exploration of the treacherous territories of relationships – between individuals, within societies and, ultimately, the collapse of both.