| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-May-2013 Kennedy Center: Terrace Theater | Opera Lafayette's minimalistic Actéon conquers the Kennedy Center |
 For almost two decades, Opera Lafayette has been known to DC opera fans as a period-based ensemble reviving long-forgotten gems of French Baroque and Rococo chamber opera repertoire. On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater hosted Opera Lafayette’s most recent creation: its production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s pastorale/tragédie en musique Actéon.
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| 1-Mar-2012 Brooklyn Academy of Music: Howard Gilman Opera House | Mark Morris premieres new work in Brooklyn |
 Even Mikhail Baryshnikov was curious to stop by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Thursday March 1st to the witness the world premiere of Mark Morris’ A Choral Fantasy. The work sets movement to the score of Beethoven’s Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80. He paired the piece along with his earlier adaptation of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts with music by Virgil Thomson and words by Gertrude Stein.Read full review... | |
| 26-Jan-2012 Lincoln Center: Rose Theater | Opera Lafayette revives an 18th-century comic gem |
 Opera Lafayette has uncovered a fascinating work in their revival of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny’s 1762 comic opera Le roi et le fermier (The King and the Farmer). The Washington, D.C.-based company is dedicated to “the French 18th-century opera repertoire and its precursors, influences, and artistic legacy,” and presented a single performance on tour in Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre before taking it to Versailles next week.
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