Tickets and Info for Performances

Feb. 10th at 7:30pm & Feb 11th at 3pm
https://pbo.org/blog/blog/are-you-having-dinner-with-handel/423/

Have you ever dined with a composer? This February you will get an opportunity of a lifetime as we put on the North American Premiere: Dinner with Handel.
  What is for dinner, you may ask? Why a ‘pasticcio’ of course. Pasticcio is Italian for a kind of pie — a layered delight, if you will — but in musical terms refers to a popular Baroque practice of mixing music from varied composers and reworking them into a new piece.
  For Dinner with Handel, PBO’s new Artistic Director Julian Perkins deftly weaves together arias from Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Arne, and Pepusch and award-winning British Journalist Stephen Pettitt adds witty text for a must-see chamber opera receiving only its second staging ever.

This uncomfortably intimate dinner party features conversation and confrontations between Handel, rival composer Johann Christoph Pepusch, spurned diva Francesca Cuzzoni, singer and cook Gustavus Waltz, and Handel’s dear friend, Mary Pendarves. This 90-minute jewel is fast-moving, funny, and touching, exploring Handel’s complex personality through carefully researched references to real events.
Artists:

+Daniel Moody (countertenor) as Handel. Moody has been lauded for his “profoundly startling vocal resonance” (The New York Times) and “sweet and melancholy sound” (The Washington Post). A highly sought-after Handelian countertenor, that has performed with the Atlanta Opera and Vancouver Opera.
  +Abi Levis (mezzo-soprano) brings her “terrific tonal and textual sensitivity” (Opera News) and excels in a variety of musical styles. Levis has appeared as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and the Handel and Haydn Society.
 +Arwen Myers (soprano), known for her “crystalline tone and delicate passagework” (San Francisco Chronicle), has also performed Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, and Indianapolis Early Music Festival.
 +Kenneth Overton (baritone) is a 2020 Grammy Award Winner for Best Choral Performance in the title role of Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua and this season will reprise his role in Porgy and Bess as Porgy, with Opera Carolina and North Carolina Opera.
+Aaron Sheehan (tenor) rounds out the soloist lineup. He is recognized internationally as a leading interpreter of baroque repertoire and for his “sinuous and supple” voice (Opera Music). Sheehan has performed concerts at the Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Baroque, and the Handel and Haydn Society.