Summer for the City: Jeannette Sorrell Conducts Bologne & Mozart

Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center's Summer for the City, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Friday, August 2, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)

Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, United States

Pay-what-you-can from $5; $35 suggested

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture to Le nozze di Figaro ("The Marriage of Figaro"), K. 492
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — L'Amant anonyme ("The Anonymous Lover") (Act II aria TBA)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Exsultate jubilate ("Exult rejoice"), K. 165
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — Sinfonie Concertante in G major, Op. 13, No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K. 367
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Haffner”

Celebrated conductor Jeannette Sorrell leads the Festival Orchestra in a sublime evening of opera, symphonic, and ballet music—with works by Mozart and his contemporary, Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges). Hear excerpts from two of Mozart's most celebrated operas, the charming overture to The Marriage of Figaro and ballet music from Idomeneo. Soprano Sonya Headlam performs Mozart's joyful Exsultate, jubilate alongside Léontine's Act II aria from Bologne's L'Amant anonyme, the composer's only surviving opera. Delight in Bologne's Sinfonia concertante, featuring two soloists from the orchestra, concertmaster Ruggero Allifranchini and principal second violinist Laura Frautschi. Mozart's spirited "Haffner" Symphony rounds out the evening.

Performances on Aug. 2 & 3.

About Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center

The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center comes together each summer during Lincoln Center's Summer for the City to celebrate and share iconic works of classical music in dialogue with new and rediscovered music—with all seats available for Choose-What-You-Pay prices. The ensemble, formerly the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, is comprised of world-class musicians who perform year-round as soloists, chamber musicians, and in other ensembles across Lincoln Center's campus and around the globe.

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/s/Festival%20Orchestra%20of%20Lincoln%20Center

About Lincoln Center's Summer for the City

Lincoln Center invites New Yorkers to come together for hundreds of events with thousands of artists celebrating the cultural communities of NYC.

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city

About Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

GRAMMY®-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell is recognized internationally as one of today’s most compelling interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire. She is credited by BBC Music Magazine for “forging a vibrant, life-affirming approach to early music.”

The daughter of a European immigrant father and American mother, she grew up as a musician and dancer. She studied conducting under Leonard Bernstein, Robert Spano, and Roger Norrington at the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals. As a harpsichordist, she studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam and won First Prize and the Audience Choice Award in the Spivey International Harpsichord Competition, competing against over 70 harpsichordists from Europe, Israel, the U.S., and the Soviet Union.

Sorrell is the founder and artistic director of APOLLO’S FIRE, and has led the renowned period ensemble as conductor and harpsichord soloist in sold-out concerts from Carnegie Hall and London’s BBC Proms to the Tanglewood and Ravinia festivals. At home in Cleveland, she and Apollo’s Fire have built one of the largest audiences of any baroque orchestra in North America.

In demand with symphony orchestras and period groups alike, Sorrell makes debuts this season with the New York Philharmonic (Handel’s Messiah) and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Bach’s St John Passion). She has repeatedly conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, and New World Symphony, and also led the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Opera St Louis with the St Louis Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, the Florida Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic (Canada), and the Royal Northern Sinfonia (UK), among others.

With over 7 million views of their YouTube videos, Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire have released 26 commercial CDs, of which 8 have been bestsellers on Billboard Classical. Sorrell won a GRAMMY® in 2019 for her album “Songs of Orpheus” with Apollo’s Fire and tenor Karim Sulayman. Her recordings include the complete Brandenburg Concerti and harpsichord concerti of Bach (Billboard Classical Top 10 in 2012). She has also released four discs of Mozart. Other recordings include Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, the Monteverdi Vespers (Billboard Classical Top 10) and five creative crossover projects, including Sephardic Journey – Wanderings of the Spanish Jews (Billboard World Music #2, Classical #7) and Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain (Billboard Classical #3, and named “Festive Disc of the Year” by GRAMOPHONE).

Sorrell is the subject of the 2019 documentary by Academy award-winning director Allan Miller, titled PLAYING WITH FIRE. She has also been featured on Living the Classical Life. She has attracted national awards for her creative programming and her “storytelling” approach to early music, which has attracted many new listeners through the use of contextual and dramatic elements.

She holds an honorary doctorate from Case Western University, two special awards from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on early American music, and an award from the American Musicological Society. Passionate about guiding the next generation of performers, Sorrell is the architect of Apollo’s Fire’s Young Artist Apprentice program, which has produced many of the nation’s leading young professional baroque players; and the new Artistic Leadership Fellows program.

https://jeannettesorrell.com/