Wednesday, June 15
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive
Early Music Film Series presents Admeto. German filmmaker, producer, and author Doris Dörrie staged this vividly colored, highly stylized production of George Frideric Handel’s three-act opera Admeto, re di Tessaglia, transposing the original Greek setting to the world of Japanese samurai and Butoh dance. (The storyline is based on that of Euripides’ Alcestis.) Butoh provides the production with its underlying motif, offering the characters greater dimension, mystery, and occasional irony. Bay Area early music fans will especially appreciate the performance conducted by Nicholas McGegan with players David Tayler (archlute) and Hanneke van Proosdij (harpsichord). Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym or Paolo Antonio Rolli, after L’Antigona delusa da Alceste by Aurelio Aureli. Photographed by Roland Mayer. Music by George Frideric Handel. With Mamu Dance Theatre and Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, conducted by Nicholas McGegan. (In German with English subtitles, 181 mins, Color, Blu-ray, Permission Unitel)
7 PM
BAMPFA
2155 Center St., Berkeley
$12 general admission; $8 senior, disabled, youth, Cal faculty, staff, non-Cal student; $7 Cal student, BAMPFA student
Tickets online
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Saturday, June 18
Marin Baroque
“Solatium, Sun Stands Still,” an outdoor concert of early music with Calextone (Letitia Berlin, recorder, doucaine; Frances Blaker, hackbrett, recorder; Shira Kammen, vielle, medieval harp; and Allison Zelles Lloyd, voice, medieval harp), who will perform works by Dufay, Ciconia, da Perugia, and Anonymous. Audience members who attended Marin Baroque operas in the outdoor courtyard where Solatium will be held described the ambiance as “.magical”! There will be a complimentary reception immediately following the concert.
7 PM First Presbyterian Church
72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo
$22 general; $11 senior, student; $1 10-and-under
Tickets online or 415-497-6634
[email protected], http://www.marinbaroque.org/
