Organization

Singer

Tenor

Jehú Otero

Conductor

Pedro Memelsdorff

violin

Théotime Langlois de Swarte

Video designer

Joshua Higgason

Soprano

Samantha Louis-Jean

Sophia Burgos

Mezzo-soprano

Sishel Claverie

Baritone

Victor Sicard

Bass-baritone

Jonathan Woody

Instrumentalist

Opera Lafayette

Orchestra

Opera Lafayette Orchestra

French

Concert spirituel aux caraïbes

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

New York City

El Museo del Barrio

Concert spirituel aux caraïbes: Concert Various

Public

Concert

English

Approved

Pedro Memelsdorff, a musician scholar whose recent research has focused on music in the French colonies in the Caribbean during the 18th century, conceives and leads a program highlighting French music performed there between 1760 and 1790.  The musical life of the colonies involved enslaved, formerly enslaved, and free peoples, and Memelsdorff’s program addresses the extraordinarily complicated dynamics between the musical culture of imperial France and the people of the Caribbean.  Well-known French composers from the 18th century and newly rediscovered works are represented in this orchestral concert with vocal soloists and ensemble.

Concert spirituel aux caraïbes by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor Pedro Memelsdorff, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., United States

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