Excerpts of “From Hell to Antigone”, Opera Essentia's new 70-minute Distillation of Handel's Admeto, from 1727. This steamy love triangle saga unfolds in bittersweet beauty, one ravishing aria after another. Betrayal, longing, jealousy, and bewilderment just scratch the surface. A curse reversed, a rejection amended, but then she's back from the dead... how can a heart survive it all??

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Midtown Concerts presents Opera Essentia

St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church - The Actors' Chapel

Please come to a one-hour salon at Madison Avenue's Arader Galleries. This will be Opera Essentia's first fundraiser event, with an introduction to the company, and highlights of "From Hell to Antigone" — a distillation of Handel's Admeto, coming this spring. Artistic Director and countertenor, Jeffrey Mandelbaum will be joined by soprano Kristin Renee Young and mezzo-soprano Melisa Bonetti, as well as harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky and violinist Francis Liu.

Opera Essentia

Arader Galleries

In his autobiography, Telemann recounts his visit to Paris and names the musicians who played his music. This concert will recreate his experience with pieces by Telemann’s colleagues Michel Blavet, Jean-Pierre Guignon, and Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, as well as Telemann’s own Nouveau Quatuor No. 4 in B Minor.

Rebecca Pechefsky

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