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Haymarket brings Handel’s blockbuster oratorio La Resurrezione to the stage with an updated nod to its visually sumptuous 1708 premiere. Building on Haymarket’s “brilliantly performed” (Chicago Tribune) films that incorporated projected scenic elements, designer Camilla Tassi makes her Haymarket debut with lavish projections inspired by eye-witness accounts of the first performances of this oratorio. Handel’s score is an opera in all but name, and demands breathtaking vocal and instrumental virtuosity. Early music specialist Christian Curnyn conducts the Haymarket Opera Orchestra with a star-studded cast led by soprano Sarah Brailey as the Angel and baritone Douglas Williams as Lucifer. Vocal fireworks combine with religious fervor in a heroic showdown between Heaven and Hell.

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La Resurrezione

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Hailed as “a knockout performer” by The Times, Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron brings her burnished voice to her Haymarket debut in the title role of the martyred Saint John the Baptist. Also in their company debuts, Haymarket welcomes bass-baritone Christian Pursell as Herod, the king who is reluctant to execute John the Baptist, and Eric Ferring as the savage confidant who pushes for the saint’s brutal execution. Radiant sopranos Erica Schuller and Kristen Knutson Berka return to Haymarket as the scorned mother and daughter out for blood.

La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista

Cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Andrew Rosenblum unite for an evening of commanding musicianship at the intersection of tradition and discovery. A three-time GRAMMY nominee, Woods has garnered a reputation for versatile and inventive musicality, and is joined by pianist Rosenblum. Their program brings together Fazil Say’s vivid Four Cities, George Walker’s 1956 Sonata for cello and piano—of which Gramophone writes that Woods and Hanick’s recording is “more compellingly characterful,” with “the raw vulnerability of the central slow movement” lingering in the memory—and Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Cello Sonata, op. 19, one of the most passionate works in the duo repertoire.

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Andrew Rosenblum

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 18, 2027

Seth Parker Woods, cello Andrew Rosenblum, piano · Washington Performing Arts

Past events

Jun 14, 2024

La Resurrezione · Haymarket Opera Company

Mar 22, 2024

La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista · Haymarket Opera Company

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Cello Sonata by Rachmaninoff

Washington Performing Arts

Piano in I. Sivas and IV. Bodrum from Four Cities by Say

Washington Performing Arts

Piano in Sonata for cello and piano (1956) by Walker

Washington Performing Arts

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