Sat June 9, 2018
Berkeley Festival: Voices of Music with the San Francisco Girls Chorus
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June 7, 7:30pm and June 9, 11:00am
Voices of Music and the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will co-present a concert version of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1688, Purcell's only opera was performed at Josiah Priest's Girls School in Chelsea, London. No musical score survives from this performance; this concert is a recreation of what may have been heard at this time. The libretto was written by English poet laureate Nahum Tate.
Voices of Music is directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus is directed by Lisa Bielawa and Valerie Sainte-Agathe. Soloists: Jesse Blumberg and Mindy Ella Chu.
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Voices of Music and the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will co-present a concert version of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1688, Purcell's only opera was performed at Josiah Priest's Girls School in Chelsea, London. No musical score survives from this performance; this concert is a recreation of what may have been heard at this time. The libretto was written by English poet laureate Nahum Tate.
Voices of Music is directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus is directed by Lisa Bielawa and Valerie Sainte-Agathe. Soloists: Jesse Blumberg and Mindy Ella Chu.
June 7, 7:30pm and June 9, 11:00am
Voices of Music and the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will co-present a concert version of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1688, Purcell's only opera was performed at Josiah Priest's Girls School in Chelsea, London. No musical score survives from this performance; this concert is a recreation of what may have been heard at this time. The libretto was written by English poet laureate Nahum Tate.
Voices of Music is directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus is directed by Lisa Bielawa and Valerie Sainte-Agathe. Soloists: Jesse Blumberg and Mindy Ella Chu.
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Voices of Music and the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will co-present a concert version of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1688, Purcell's only opera was performed at Josiah Priest's Girls School in Chelsea, London. No musical score survives from this performance; this concert is a recreation of what may have been heard at this time. The libretto was written by English poet laureate Nahum Tate.
Voices of Music is directed by Hanneke van Proosdij and David Tayler, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus is directed by Lisa Bielawa and Valerie Sainte-Agathe. Soloists: Jesse Blumberg and Mindy Ella Chu.
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