Aston Magna: Love and Lamentation

Love and Lamentation will be guest directed by lirone player Erin Headley, an internationally renowned musician and musical scholar. Ms. Headley has lived, performed and worked professionally in Europe for years and has now returned to the U.S. She is a regular member of the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra among other eminent organizations. The lirone is a bowed string continuo instrument that creates a rich web of harmony.

Program: Prologue from L’Orfeo and Lament of Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi; Elena invecchiata vanitas’ cantata on the aging Helen of Troy by Marco Marazzoli; Lament of Zaida, and Scenes from Orfeo by Luigi Rossi; instrumental music by Biagio Marini, Monteverdi and Rossi

Artists: Guest Director Erin Headley, lirone/viola da gamba; Catherine Liddell, theorbo; Laura Jeppesen, violin/viola da gamba; Daniel Stepner, baroque violin, and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord Soloists: Kristen Watson and Nell Snaidas, sopranos. 

There's a pre-concert talk one hour before the concert; reception with the artists follows.

$35 advance tickets - $40 at the door