12/29th
02/13th
2022
6:00 p.m.
2019
The Royal Trail
As part of the Festival "Loco for Love" and in collaboration with Theater with a Mission and Florida State University, El Fuego Early Music presents:
El Camino Real (The Royal trail) Sometimes translated as The King's Highway, it may refer to a historic trail from St. Augustine westward to the Spanish missions in north Florida.
The concert will include music, poetry and dance that might have been present from c1565-c1763, in what is now Florida. A narrative about the Spanish Franciscans missions and Conquistadores such as Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, excerpts from "La Florida" by Friar Alonso de Escobedo. Vocal and Instrumental music by Sumaya, Fernandes and Salas, with period instruments.
Artistic Direction by Salomé Sandoval, voice, vihuela and baroque guitar; Luciana Kube, singer and lecturer; Eric Miranda, Baritone; and the special participation of Maestra Frances Fitch, organ and harpsichord. Theater with a Mission actors and dancers. Art works and translations will be projected onto a screen.
Friday, March 04th 5:00 p.m. Dohnányi Recital Hall, School of Music at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
3:00 p.m.
2018
12/28th and 29th
HOLIDAY 2019 CONCERTS A Tale of Divine Love and the River Spirit Acis y Galatea—A Spanish Baroque Semi-Staged Comic Opera December 28, 2019 at 4 pm - Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA December 29, 2019 at 4 pm - Methodist Church, Lakeville, CT Antonio de Líteres’s “Acis y Galatea” (1708) is a zarzuela in two acts with a libretto by José de Cañizares. The work quickly became one of the most famous of zarzuelas, the Spanish popular music-drama form that flourished in the late Baroque. Zarzuelas were a blend of sung and spoken episodes, usually performed by women actors who took both male and female roles, featuring characters that often are a mixture of gods, mythological creatures and rustic or pastoral comedy characters. This work tells of the love between mortal Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea. Líteres brilliantly weaves together Italianate da capo arias, French sung minuets, and Spanish seguidillas (sung popular dances). The singers are accompanied by traditional Baroque instruments and castanets, which give a typical Spanish flavor. A small group of ensemble singers act as a traditional ‘Greek Chorus’, commenting in fast-moving and rhythmical choruses on the dramatic action. Salomé Sandoval, mezzo soprano (Acis), Baroque guitar, percussion and co-director, Catherine Hancock, soprano (Galatea), Malina Rauschenfels, mezzo soprano (Tisbe), Roman Testroet, baritone (Momo), Tom Schindler, (Polyphemo), are joined by Crescendo’s Vocal Ensemble Singers, and period instrument players Tricia Van Oers, recorder, Christa Patton, recorder and Baroque harp, Hideki Yamaya, Baroque guitar. Christine Gevert leads this semi-staged performance from the harpsichord. $60 (Premium) / $35 (General) / $10 (under 18 years) WINTType your paragraph here.
2020
EL FUEGO Early Music Ensemble in collaboration with Crescendo, will present "Sublime Love", a selection of sacred and secular cantatas from the 1600s New World Colonies from Guatemalan, Peruvian and Mexican sources: Choral compositions by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco and Poetry by Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz (called the Shakespeare of the Spanish Golden Era in the New World). Salomé Sandoval, soprano, baroque guitar, archlute and co-artistic direction; Malina Rauschenfels, voice, violin and cello; Chirstine Gevert, organ and director of Choral Ensemble CRESCENDO.
Friday December 28th, 2018, 6:00 p.m. at Saint James Place, 352 Main St, Great Barrington, MA 01230 and Saturday December 29th, 2018 at the Trinity Lime Rock Episcopal Church, 484 Lime Rock Rd, Lakeville, CT 06039. More info at http://worldclassmusic.org/
Heroes or Villains?
El Camino Real
Acis and Galatea
Burning Fire!
Sublime Love
03/04th
12/28th
As part of the Historically Informed Performances Festival (HIP), El Fuego Early Music presents: Heroes or Villains? A tale of adventurers, wanderers, settlers, and pirates from the coasts of 16th century North Carolina, through music, art, and poetry.
Before Pedro Calderon de la Barca wrote “La Vida en Sueño” (Life is a dream), Sir Walter Raleigh had composed “What is our life,” a contemplative poem about the insignificance of wealth and power compared to the inevitable human truth: death. Join us for an evening of music from the Golden Spanish era and its parallel in Elizabethan England. Together, we will revisit the history of Sir Francis Drake's plunders, the lost colony of Roanoke and Virginia Dare, and the endless battles between the British and Spanish rulers for control of the New World. El Fuego Early Music Ensemble singers and period instruments directed by Salome Sandoval, voice and vihuela, in collaboration local artists. Art works and translations will be projected onto a screen. Music by Campion, Dowland, Morley, Fletcha, Mudarra and Fernandes.
Sunday, February 23rd 4:00 p.m. Person Hall, UNC; Chapel Hill, NC
Celebrate St. Valentine with EL FUEGO Early Music Ensemble! EL FUEGO presents "Burning Fire!": Cantatas and Opera Scenes by Duron, Literes and Nebra. Salomé Sandoval, voice, baroque guitar, archlute and artistic direction; Malina Rauschenfels, voice and cello; Matvey Lapin, baroque violin; Jennifer Streeter, harpsichord.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2018; 7:30 p.m. concert at the FRANK Gallery, 201 S Estes Dr B6, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; located at the University Mall. General Audience $30, Senior and Students $20. A reception with sparkling wine, chocolate and strawberries will be served after the concert.