Event Concerts and Performances Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Julia Bullock, Soprano

Date and Location

  • When: Friday, January 24, 2025

    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST

  • Where: Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium (LJG45A)

    10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

Part of Concerts from the Library of Congress

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Grammy-winning American soprano Julia Bullock and Britain’s famed Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) join their formidable forces in a spectacular evening of vocal and instrumental showpieces from the Golden Age of the Baroque. Now marking 40 years at the pinnacle of the early music universe, the OAE is a perfect partner for this incandescent singer. “Smart, savvy, and with her velvety soprano shot through with steel, Julia Bullock is one of the most dramatically electrifying and vocally arresting singers on today’s operatic stages” (Musical America). Equally renowned for early operas as for very recent ones, she will star in the upcoming production of John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra” this spring at the Metropolitan Opera.  

Pre-concert Conversation with the artists 
6:30 pm 
Whittall Pavilion 

 

Schedule

Program 

GEORGE FRIDERIC HÄNDEL 
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon 
Verdi prati, from Alcina 

ANTONIO VIVALDI 
“La primavera” from Le quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons), RV 269 

J.S. BACH 
Air from Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 

HENRY PURCELL
Selections from The Fairy Queen  

JOHANN PACHELBEL
Canon in D major 

HANDEL
Da tempeste il legno infranto, from Giulio Cesare   

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU 
Les Sauvages, from Les Indes Galantes 

 PURCELL
Sonata in D major for trumpet and strings, Z. 850 
If Love’s a Sweet Passion, from The Fairy Queen 

J.S. BACH
Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 

 BARBARA STROZZI
Che si può fare  

 GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN  
Suite from Hamburger Ebb und Fluth, TWV 55:C3 (Water Music), excerpts 

 JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY    
Marche pour la cérémonie des turcs, from Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV 43 

 HANDEL    
Let the Bright Seraphim, from Samson 

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