Slaying the Dragon: Songs of Faith, Hope, and Love
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PROGRAM
Program translations and notes
La mort de Didon
Michel Pignolet de Mont茅clair (1667-1737)
Addi Liu, Violin
Rosemary Heredos, Flute
Sarah Coffman, Cello
Peter Bennett, Harpsichord
Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna
Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
Anna O鈥機onnell, Soprano and Triple Harp
Scene from of Die sch枚ne und getreue Ariadne (Act 2, Scene 9)
Johann Georg Conradi (1645-1699)
Ariadne: Anna O鈥機onnell, Soprano
Evanthes: Madelaine Matej, Soprano
Theseus: Mark Laseter, Tenor
Alan Choo, Violin
Guillermo Salas-Su谩rez, Violin
Jonathan Goya, Viola
Jane Leggiero, Cello Solo
Sarah Coffman, Cello
Peter Bennett, Harpsichord
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鈥淔low My Tears鈥� | 鈥淎ll the Day鈥� | 鈥淭ime Stands Still鈥�
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Anna O鈥機onnell, Soprano and Triple Harp
鈥淧araninfos celestes鈥ompa de la batalla鈥�
Ignacio de Jerusalem (1707-1769)
Guillermo Salas-Su谩rez, Violin
Alan Choo, Violin
Sarah Coffman, Cello
Peter Bennett, Harpsichord
Anna O鈥機onnell, soprano, studies with Ellen Hargis and Dina Kuznetsova as a DMA student in the Historical Performance Practice program. Formerly Director of Music for the Catholic Campus Ministry at Cornell University, she also conducted the ecumenical Anabel Taylor Chapel Choir, now in its fifth year, which specializes in sacred music from the renaissance to the present day. As a vocalist, O鈥機onnell is sought after for faith-based services, and ensembles specializing in early music. She recently co-founded an ensemble, Gothic Fire, that features voices, harp, and medieval bowed instruments. O鈥機onnell studied conducting at the University of Southern California, and music education at Providence College. She has appeared as a vocal soloist with Maui Chamber Orchestra, the Cornell University Orchestra, the Ithaca College Symphonia and more. An avid traveler, she has sung in the Vatican, at the Great Wall of China, on the top of Haleakela Mountain in Maui, in the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston, and in Krakow at the 2016 World Youth Day celebration. O鈥機onnell is also a harpist, performing in folk, popular, classical, and now, gothic and baroque styles.