CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Series

Sun 12/27/20
VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
Christmas Concert
A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty

A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty on Sunday, December 27, at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain and Facebook Live at 5 p.m. (EST). Our featured guest artist will be Pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour. Now more than ever, we need music that warms the heart and helps keep feelings […]

Sun 11/29/21
VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
Timeless Harmonies:
A Celebration of Bach Violin Masterpieces

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra is pleased to present Timeless Harmonies: A Celebration of Bach Violin Masterpieces at the Trinity-On-Main Arts Center in New Britain on Sunday, November 29, at 3 p.m. For those who are unable to join us in person, we will broadcast the performance live on our […]

Sun 10/11/20
Sun10/18/20
VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
BY COMPOSER JOHNATHAN KANE

10/11 – 3 pm – Trinity – On Main – New Britain 10/18 – 6 pm – Cyril and Methodius Church – Hartford A concert commemorating the pain and suffering of all people caused by the COVID-19. A new piece commissioned by the Virtuosi from the Connecticut composer Jonathan Kane […]

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to present concert in memory of those lost to COVID-19 in October

This concert will include a classic work written during a time of crisis – Béla Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, a modernist energetic protest piece composed in response to the Nazi regime in Europe – and the world premiere of Stays the Year One Moment, a new work from Newington, […]

ORFEO ED EURIDICE by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Archive record)

Opera Baroque: “Orfeo ed Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck staged in collaboration with the Connecticut Lyric Opera’s Young Artist Program and with students and faculty of the Virtuosi Music Academy and Greve Opera Academy. – Guest Conductor – Giacomo Benedetti Stage Director – Alan Mann Rebecca […]

MUSIC OF WIENIAWSKI, SZYMANOWSKI & Annual Polish Christmas with the Moniuszko Choir & Virtuosi Baroque Youth Ensemble

The Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies & Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra present: Karol Szymanowski – La Fontaine d’Arethuse, op. 30, Henry Wieniawski – Violin Concerto in d-minor, no. 2, Polish & English Christmas Carols Adrian Sylveen, violin, Moniuszko Choir, Virtuosi Baroque Youth Ensemble Hugh Keelan, guest […]

Nov. 8, 16, 17, 30 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE BY RICHARD WAGNER

Extraordinary Tristan und Isolde – “The love story that changed opera for ever” – An internationally acclaimed cast of singers performs one of the pinnacles of the operatic repertoire. The influential Tristan und Isolde is notable for Wagner’s use of chromaticism, tonal ambiguity, orchestral color, and harmonic suspension. More than a […]

Isolde – Jenna Rae

Wherever Jenna Rae performs, there is beauty, rigor, generosity of emotion, and an unusual ability to connect. With her first performance of Isolde with TUNDI Productions in 2019, Jenna Rae received breathtaking accolades from critics, from colleagues, from Wagnerites who travel internationally for Wagner productions, and from attendees who possibly […]

MET tenor Errin Brooks as TRISTAN

CLO Associate Artistic Director recently corresponded with cast members from our upcoming production of Tristan und Isolde to ask them some questions about their backgrounds, how they got involved in singing opera, and how they came to work with CLO. This article will feature three of our company members from the […]

Oct. 11 & 20 “DAPHNIS ET EGLé” BY JEAN-PHILIPPE REAMEAU

Connecticut Virtuosi will open the 2019/2020 Season with the baroque, one-act opera Daphnis et Eglé by composer Jean-Philippe Rameau and librettist Charles Collé which will be sung in French with English subtitles. This production is presented in collaboration with the Connecticut Lyric Opera. Artistic Director Adrian Sylveen directs and will […]