2024-2025 Events
Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina
400th Anniversary Celebration of the First Woman-Composed Opera
L.A. Camerata collaboration with the UCLA Early Music Ensemble
Co-Sponsored by The Colburn Foundation
Sunday, March 23, 2025—10:00am Special Collections Exhibition, 10:45am Seating Opens, 11:00am Performance, 12:30pm Reception
Location: UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
The UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata will celebrate Early Music Month and Women’s History Month with an outdoor performance of the first opera composed by a woman. Caccini’s Alcina depicts a power struggle between two women—demigodess Melissa and sorceress Alcina—as they battle over Ruggiero and an entire island of enchanted lovers. This performance will include light staging and an ensemble of period instrumentalists.
Directors/Producers: Marylin Winkle (Stage & Music Director); Jillian Risigari-Gai Lopez (Assistant Director); Don Smith (Production Manager).
Full Cast List: Ariel Pisturino (Alcina); Ianthe Marini (Melissa); Jon Lee Keenan (Ruggiero); Vasken Ohanian (Nettuno, plant); Adam Faruqi (Pastore, plant); Iris Malkin (Dama disincantata); Krystal Mao (Sirena, Nunzia); Laur Trustee (Vistola Fiume, chorus); Abbey Thompson (Astolfa, chorus); Soo Bin Kwon (damsel, plant, monster); Charlotte Kelly (plant, chorus); Miranda Claxton (chorus); Ray Ingersoll (chorus); Corryn Cummins (Muse). Click Here for principal cast bios.
Sinfonia: Eli Chenevert (baroque violin); Johannes Eberhart (baroque violin); Ashley Salinas (baroque violin); Suzy Hertzberg (treble viol); Minnie Seo (baroque cello, tenor viol); Bruce Teter (recorders, musette); Gerald Cotts (recorders); Natalie White (recorders); Davis Lerner (baroque bassoon); Lucas O’Brien (sackbut); Kenny Tran (sackbut); Ray Ingersoll (trumpet); Caleb Virkstis (baroque guitar); Seamus Byrne (lute); Erin Young (theorbo); Jillian Risigari-Gai Lopez (harp); Alaina Stark (harp); Emma Yim (harpsichord); Anthony Lopez (harpsichord).
FREE ADMISSION. RSVP Required. Click here for full event details, including RSVP form.
2023-2024 Events
Fra Dori, e Fileno: Edition Release Concert
Saturday, May 4th, 2024 | 6:30 P.M.
A concert featuring a secular cantata by Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1710) from an edition recently released by Dulcamara Press, edited by Marylin Winkle. The cantata depicts the courtship of a shepherd (Fileno) and sea nymph (Dori). Two singers (soprano Marisa De Silva and mezzo soprano Sarah Reynolds) will be accompanied by a baroque ensemble on period instruments: Eli Chenevert (violin), Rachel Iba (violin), Courtney Kuroda (violin), Ashley Salinas (violin), Marylin Winkle (cello), Robert Wang (guitar and theorbo), Sonia Lee (harpsichord). The performance will also include instrumental music by Isabella Leonarda and Alessandro Stradella.
Location: First Baptist Church of Glendale, 209 N Louise St, Glendale, CA 91206
Parking: Paid lots available adjacent to the church. Metered street parking also available.
Tickets: By donation, pay what you can/will. Use this form to RSVP: https://forms.gle/uBUZvvMxu8yFX8uv8
Contact: losangelescamerata@gmail.com
Berkeley Early Music Festival | Fringe Concert
From Her Songbook: Music for Maclean-Clephane, Wemyss, Pickering, and Other Women
L.A. Camerata performs music for and by women in England, Ireland, and Scotland on period instruments.
Saturday, June 15th, 2024 | 2:30 P.M.
Saint Mary Magdalen Church in Berkeley, CA
Performers: Ashley Salinas (baroque violin), Marylin Winkle (viola da gamba), Tamzin Elliott (cláirseach/ wire strung harp), Matthew Xie (baroque guitar & lute)
Admission by Donation, pay what you can. RSVP at this link: https://forms.gle/6CKz29cjZ4iNWyPW7
"The Rape Kit," featuring author and Slope Editions Prize award-winning Terri Witek, will juxtapose new poetry with historically informed musical performances to depict centuries of movement through a culture that creates and sustains "ordinary violence."
WHEN: TBA
WHERE: TBA
ADMISSION: By donation, Pay-What-You-Can
PARTNERS: Exposition Review & The Wax Paper