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Meet Dido cast member Tahanee Aluwihare
Announcement, video

Rising opera star Tahanee Aluwihare, who will be interpreting the role of Dido in Camerata’s new production of Purcell’s great masterpiece, shares with us her thoughts on this upcoming adventure.

“I am really looking forward to exploring this powerful feminine role with Tahanee, a major young talent on the North American music scene,” says Artistic Director Anne Azéma. “You can catch a glimpse of Tahanee’s enquiring spirit in this short clip.”

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Shanah Tovah!
Announcement

For some of us it is a New Year! To one and all, here are Camerata’s wishes for a season of firm resolve, courage, and hope, as we strive to make the world a better place.

One such striver was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to Jewish tradition, those who die on the New Year are “tsadikim,” persons of unusual righteousness. And so it is, surely, with her.

This medieval hymn, “Lord of the World,” is heard here in a majestic setting for double choir by Salomone Rossi (1565-1628).

Click here to listen.

Translation:
My Rock in sorrow’s darkest day;
A Help and Refuge unto me,
My Portion sure, my Shield and Stay.
….  I will not fear.  

A Lament for Lost Lives
Announcement, video
We dedicate this “Agnus Dei” from the beautiful Requiem by Provençal composer Jean Gilles (1668-1705) to the many who have suffered, or are suffering, in this difficult world:
  • to those who perished in the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001
  • to the victims of COVID-19 and all those who have been hurt by this pandemic 
  • to victims of cruelty, racism and racist violence
  • to those who have recently lost loved ones; our recent losses at Camerata include Don Wilkinson and Tim Evans
May all of us heal, and may music be a part of what makes us once again whole.
The soloist in this consoling performance is Patrick Mason.
 
Anne Azéma, Artistic Director
Joel Cohen, Music Director Emeritus

Camerata Corruption Corps forges on…
Media, video

…with this rollicking indictment of corruption in high places, circa 1200. Does any of this sound familiar? We are shocked, shocked.


‘Bulla fulminante’ by Philippe le Chancellier
from Carmina Burana, arr. and dir. Joel Cohen
The Boston Camerata, Joel Frederiksen, soloist

Translation:

Truth is suppressed, distraught, and sold …. If you seek preferments, in vain do you advance your record; do not bring up your good conduct, lest you upset a magistrate. In vain do you rely on your erudition, but rather you wail around for months and months, and still you can expect your preferments to be carried off by others, unless you compete with a price of equal weight.