RE | JOICE: 30 Years of Ryan Brown at Opera Lafayette

Can you imagine a time before there was Opera Lafayette? Difficult as it may seem, the nation’s oldest period instrument opera company was once only the speck of an idea in the mind of a visionary young violinist, Ryan Brown. Leading the first concert performing French Baroque chamber music in the Corcoran Gallery’s magnificent Salon Doré in 1995, Maestro Brown has built Opera Lafayette into a major cultural force, celebrated from the American sh...