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Concerts and Theatrical Performances
The Lewis Walpole Library's public programming
includes support for music and drama. In 2004 the Library
inaugurated a concert series with the Opera Theatre of Yale
College's production of The Magic Flute, jointly
sponsored with Jonathan Edwards College. This year the Library
supported the production of Elisir d'Amore and
will again sponsor the Saybrook College Orchestra commencement
concert.
Past performances
2006:
The Library and Jonathan Edwards
College sponsored the Opera
Theatre of Yale College's production
of Elisir d'Amore, by Gaetano Donizetti, conducted
by Nick Chong and directed by Ethan Heard.
Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8
University Theatre, 222 York Street
2005:
Commencement concert
Saybrook College
Orchestra, Perry So, Music Director, performed Selections
from Candide by Leonard Bernstein, featuring
Charlotte Dobbs, Soprano, and Amanda Ingram, Soprano,
and Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"
by Tchaikovsky. Sponsored by the Lewis Walpole Library
and Saybrook College.
May 21, Battell Chapel
W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro was presented
by the Opera Theatre
of Yale College.
April 22 and 23, The ECA Theatre on Audubon St.
2004:
Commencement concert of operatic and orchestral music
featuring Act 1 of Strauss's Die Fledermaus and
Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, performed by the
Opera Theatre of Yale College and the Saybrook College
Orchestra
May 22, Battell Chapel
W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute was presented by
the Opera Theatre of Yale College, Perry So, Conductor,
Alex Yang, Stage Director, jointly sponsored by the Lewis
Walpole Library and Jonathan Edwards College.
April 2-3, 2004, University Theater
2003:
Opera Theatre of Yale College
September 25, 2003, The Lewis Walpole Library
2002:
Thomas A. Martin, Pianist
March 2, 2002, The Lewis Walpole Library
2001:
"A Short, Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage,"
selected scenes from Restoration plays, directed by Joseph
R. Roach, Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor
of Theater, Yale University, following the Lewis Walpole
Library Lecture "Et in Arcadia ego: The Eighteenth
Century of the 1920s" by Terry Castle, Walter
A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University,
February 16, 2001
The Way of the World, by William
Congreve, February 8- March 3, 2001, at University Theatre,
produced by the Yale Repertory Theatre as part of Yale's
Tercentennial celebration, sponsored by the Lewis Walpole
Library/Beinecke Library/Yale School of Drama
1999:
Postcards from Otranto: A Concert
of 18th-Century Music, performed by The Four Nations
Ensemble, Andrew Appel, Director
November 7, 1999
Yale Center for British Art
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