COmpass REsonance: SWEETER THAN ROSES with Taylor Raven and CORE

SUBSCRIBE TICKETS Taylor Raven, mezzo-soprano enjoys a remarkable career performing as soloist internationally in the world’s great opera houses and with top symphony orchestras. She joins COmpass REsonance in a program showcasing Baroque virtuosity—in style, character, and technique. This program is emotionally rich with powerfully moving arias accompanied by strings and basso continuo. CORE will also present Giuseppe Torelli’s Christmas Concerto, rarely performed in Colorado. Program: “Gelido in ogni vena” from Il Farnace by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) “Ombra mai fù” from Serse by George Frideric Händel (1685-1759) Concerto Grosso in forma di Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale, Op. 8 No. 6 by Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) “Sposa son disprezzata” from Bajazet by Giacomelli/Vivaldi “Empio, Dirò, Tu Sei” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by G.F. Händel Intermission “Erbarme dich” from St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) “Thy Hand, Belinda” from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Pu...