Ester Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo

Alessandro Stradella, Ester Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo

Ester: Jessica Gould; Speranza Celeste: Sarah Pillow; Mardocheo: José Lemos; Aman: Ian Pomerantz; Assuero: Paul An; Testo: Matthew Curran; Le Due Ebree: Martha Sullivan & Olivia Greene

Members and guests of the Stradella Consort, Estevan Velardi, director

Mary Riccardi & Phaik Tzhi Chua, violins; Christa Patton, baroque harp; Diego Cantalupi, theorbo; Motomi Igarashi, viola da gamba & lirone; Sarah Stone, cello; Gabe Shuford, harpsichord & organ

The Old Testament story of a blustering genocidal despot and the intrepid woman who resists and brings him down finds voice in one of the most innovative works of the violent, volatile, and tragically short-lived Alessandro Stradella.

Please join us for this groundbreaking masterwork by “the Caravaggio of Music" in a return of last year’s critically praised production celebrating the story of a minority’s triumph over religious persecution.

The March 5th performance takes place in the historic Brotherhood Synagogue, once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Ester Liberatrice del Popolo Ebreo is co-produced by NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the American Society for Jewish Music in partnership with Centro Primo Levi, with the generous support of the Charles Schwartz Foundation for Music, the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, and Brotherhood Synagogue.

Read more on i-Italy here. Program notes are here.