The concert will be livestreamed here.
The Yale Voxtet conducted by Stephen Stubbs will perform Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, (Magdalene at the feet of Christ), an oratorio from the late 17th Century by Antonio Caldara.
Stephen Stubbs, who won the GRAMMY® Award as conductor for Best Opera Recording in 2015, spent a 30-year career in Europe. He returned to his native Seattle in 2006 as one of the world’s most respected lutenists, conductors, and baroque opera specialists and in 2014 was awarded the Mayor’s Arts Award for ‘Raising the Bar’ in Seattle. Before his return, he was based in Bremen, Germany, where he was Professor at the Hochschule für Künste. In 1987 he founded the ensemble Tragicomedia, which toured throughout Europe, Japan, and the U.S., and has been the continuo team for the Boston Early Music Festival since 1997. Read more.
The Yale Voxtet is a world-renowned group of chamber singers who study at the Yale School of Music and are fellows of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The Voxtet has performed everything from regency delights of Jane Austen’s personal collection to works by Robert Wylkynson and Joanna Marsh to newly commissioned works. They perform a global portfolio of music and have performed abroad as far as Burma.