GRAMMY-nominated Ars Lyrica Houston presents a festive holiday concert with an eight-person vocal ensemble and a Baroque orchestra of period instrument specialists. This stunning concert features two major works for chorus and orchestra from the Christian tradition, one on the creation story and the other on the incarnation of Christ. As set to music by […]
GRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston presents a quintessentially Baroque program called Fugal Games on Saturday, January 13th at 4pm in Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University. Five expert early music instrumentalists join for the artful and scholarly program, which features unique orchestrations of J.S. Bach's enigmatic works and tuneful pieces by G.P. Telemann. […]
GRAMMY-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston presents Visions and Reveries, an all-French program featuring world renowned soprano Lauren Snouffer alongside a select ensemble of period instrument specialists. When: Saturday, March 16 at 7:30pm Where: Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center (800 Bagby St) The program includes lyric cantatas on mythological themes by Elizabeth Claude Jacquet […]
GRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston closes its 2023/24 season with a new production of Handel’s magic opera "Amadigi di Gaula." The cast includes four rising stars of the operatic firmament, all ideally suited to this exceptionally beautiful score. Tara Faircloth directs and Matthew Dirst conducts this Houston premiere. Featuring: Amadigi — Randall Scotting, […]
GRAMMY-nominated early music organization Ars Lyrica Houston closes its 2023/24 season with a new production of Handel’s magic opera "Amadigi di Gaula." The cast includes four rising stars of the operatic firmament, all ideally suited to this exceptionally beautiful score. Tara Faircloth directs and Matthew Dirst conducts this Houston premiere. Featuring: Amadigi — Randall Scotting, […]
GRAMMY-nominated Baroque ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston's season opener, In Praise of Virtue, spotlights countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, a “young star” (New York Times) and local favorite since his time in the HGO Studio. Nussbaum Cohen will share the stage with “breakout” soprano (Boston Globe) Hannah DePriest, in her Ars Lyrica debut. This program features two […]
Ars Lyrica presents Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War, inventive transformation of the Renaissance song genre. With an operatic intensity that contrasts warmth and tenderness of love against the bloodshed of war, this song cycle stands as a timeless masterwork for voices and instrumentalist. In-person and digital tickets are available at the Ars Lyrica […]
