Il Trionfo dell'Onore by Alessandro Scarlatti
Union College
807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308
United States
Co-directed by Jason McStoots and Alessandro Quarta
Baroque Academy at the Amherst Early Music offers a unique opportunity for music students, advanced amateurs, and young starting professionals to explore music in the 17th and 18th centuries. Students work closely with internationally renowned faculty members to expand their knowledge of Baroque style, technique, ornamentation, and repertoire.
The 2024 Baroque Academy will be held at Union College in Schenectady, NY, June 29 -July 6, 2024. Opera singers should plan to begin rehearsing the afternoon of Saturday, June 29. (The Festival week runs June 30 - July 7.)
- Pitch is A=415.
- Audition due date: April 1, 2024 for singers.
- Tuition: $710.
The Opera Project at the 2024 Amherst Early Music Festival will be Il Trionfo dell'Onore, by Alessandro Scarlatti. Co-directed by Jason McStoots and Alessandro Quarta, with Lawrence Rosenwald, texts, Dorothy Olsson, historical dance, Ronnie Snader, costumes, and Paul Guttry, sets and props.
Perform a role in our fully staged production with Baroque orchestra and historical dance. Sessions on period acting and performance techniques. Master class and coachings. Performance Friday, July 5, 2024. Audition by April 1, 2024 (singers), April 15, 2024 (instrumentalists).
Baroque Opera Project Daily Schedule: 9:00-10:30 Master class, 11:00-12:15 staging rehearsal, 1:30-3:00 musical rehearsal, 3:30 to 5:30 tutti rehearsal with orchestra. Opera dress rehearsal: Thursday evening, July 6 , after the Faculty Concert.
Il Trionfo dell'Onore by Alessandro Scarlatti
Il trionfo dell'onore (The Triumph of Honour) is an operatic 'commedia' in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti, with a libretto by Francesco Antonio Tullio [it]. It was first performed at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, on 26 November 1718. It is Scarlatti's only known comic opera.'