Past Performances

OPERA: ONEGIN Nov 4, 6, 13, 19

Trinity-on-Main Arts Center, New Britain Wordsworth Atheneum Museum of Art MHS Arts Center, Middletown Garde Arts Center, New London

Thoughts on the 20th anniversary season…

Dear Friends, On May 30, 1997, the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra gave its first performance at the First Church of Christ in New Britain. It is amazing to think that the Virtuosi are approaching 20 years as an organization, and we are now preparing to begin our 20th anniversary season. […]

2016 – 2017 SEASON

2016-2017 | 20th Anniversary Season

2016 Virtuosi Institute Orchestra to focus on “Harmonic Inspiration” of Vivaldi’s music

The focus of the orchestral program of the festival will be on music by Antonio Vivaldi. In particular we will study and perform concertos from the collection of the 12 compositions op. 3 titled “L’estro armonico” This title translates as “Harmonic Inspiration” and the set was “perhaps the most influential […]

SAT: Aug. 27, 2016 at 7:30pm: “ORFEO ED EURIDICE” by C.W. Gluck

Our “Orfeo ed Euridice” by C.W. Gluck presented by Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation at JEWISH FEDERATION AUDITORIUM on SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 2016 at 7:30 pm 444 Main St N, Southbury, CT 06488 for Tickets Click Here>>>

AMERICAN PREMIERE OF WELLS ORGAN CONCERTO

Saturday, May 7, 7:00 pm – Emanuel Lutheran Church, Manchester Sunday, May 8, 4:00 pm – South Church, New Britain Program: John Wells: Organ Concerto (American premiere) Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G minor Woosug Kang, organ Organist Woosug Kang will join forces with […]

Annual Concert with the New Britain Chorale

New Britain Chorale and the members of the Connecticut Virtuosi chamber orchestra present Schubert’s Mass no. 5, in A-flat Major Saturday, April 2nd at 7:30pm First Lutheran Church of Reformation 77 Franklin Sq., New Britain Come and listen to this beautiful music for the soul!

Romantics Rediscovered (March 11 & 13, 2016)

Jorge Antonio Pita in a program of Sacred Arias Gounod Symphony No.1

Jorge Antonio Pita (March 11 & 13)

Hailed as one of the leading exponents of the bel canto and lyric styles among today’s singers, Jorge Antonio Pita has performed the lyric tenor repertoire to great praise in opera houses throughout the world. Mr. Pita’s voice has now naturally blossomed into the spinto verismo repertoire. Mr. Pitas appearances […]

Faust (February / March / April 2016)

Music by Charles Gounod, libretto by Jules Barbier. Charles Gounod’s Faust draws upon the two act play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a literary classic based on the German legend of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Gounod’s opera does not attempt […]