Programs & Exhibitions

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:

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