"The Jealous Husband Corrected" 18th Century Chamber Opera Comedy July 9, 2008

The Comic Intermezzo will present a fully staged, costumed and choreographed 18th-century comic chamber opera in a North American premiere.

The Comic Intermezzo presents "The Jealous Husband Corrected" by Michel Blavet

A light-hearted chamber opera and a full evening of fun!
Comic Intermezzo introduces the audience to an extraordinarily popular art form of the 18th century—the intermezzo.

With Peter and Kathleen Van De Graaff

Blavet "wrote" this in 1756 at the height of interest in the intermezzi in Paris.
He took the greatest hits arias from the intermezzi and wrote a new story as well as an overture and a ballet for it.

Sung in English.
Singers: Peter Van De Graaff, Kathleen Van De Graaff, Sharon Quattrin
Dancers: Yelena Frutig, Juliana Lehman, Christopher Rutt
Costumes by Julia Needlman Choreographer: Toby Nicholson Pianist: Ed Zelnis

Who's Who - Music of the Baroque: From its beginnings in a Hyde Park church in 1972, this ensemble has become the largest American professional baroque chorus and orchestra, aquainting today's audiences with the choral and orchestra works of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries (many of them, amazingly, Chicago premieres). The first professional chorus to have its own regular nationally syndicated radio series (broadcast over the WFMT Fine Arts Network and heard on the BBC, CBC, and European Broadcast Union), they've performed at Lincoln Center, the White House, the Library of Congress, and Ravinia, and perform a series of nearly 30 local concerts annually in several of the Chicagoland area's significant sanctuaries. Jane Glover heads as Music Director and Nicholas Kraemer as Principal Guest Conductor.
A number of the group's soloists (including Isola Jones, Judith Nelson, Judith Malafronte, Sharon Powell, William Wahman, Arthur Berg, Richard Versalle, Barbara Pearson, Linda Mabbs, Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky, Ray Still, Adolf Hirseth, and Grover Schiltz, were already well-known and/or headed for successful careers in opera or orchestra.
The ensemble's recordings include Mozart's "Great" Mass in C Minor, Telemann's Day of Judgement, and Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (the latter two both 2 CD sets).

For more information, visit their website: http://www.baroque.org

http://www.centerstagechicago.com/music/whoswho/MusicoftheBaroque.html

Music Institute of Chicago - Chicago a cappella. Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago.

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