A Handel Adventure

Concert 3: Saturday, January 31, 8 PM

First Congregational Church Fellowship Hall
900 High Street, Santa Cruz

Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, A Baroque Opera

 

  • Jonathan Salzedo, artistic director and harpsichord
  • Christa Pfeiffer, soprano as Clori
  • Kimberley Miller, soprano as Tirsi
  • Jerry Hui, alto as Fileno
  • David Wilson, concertmaste
  • Carol Panofsky and Marion Rubinstein, wind soloists

 

We invite you to join us in marking the 30th anniversary of the Chamber Players and the 350th anniversary of Handel's death with the re-creation of an eighteenth century opera experience. Audiences of the time were always delighted by singers dressing up and playing out a familiar drama, with refreshments - wine, light food, and the new obsession, coffee - making the night complete.

The concert's centerpiece is Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, written by Handel when he was only 22. Clori cannot imagine life being complete with only one lover, and promises fidelity to two, Tirsi and Fileno. When the men discover her scheme, the love triangle unfolds.

Between scenes we will serve food to the accompaniment of Handel organ concertos, just as it was done in Handel's own time—an authentic eighteenth century sensory delight!