Les Délices' Artistic Director Debra Nagy commissioned Larry Rosenwald to write the libretto for The White Cat. Having decided early on that everyone ÔÇô from age 5 to 95 ÔÇô should understand everything that was going on without supertitles or...
This April, Les Délices and a team of fabulous collaborators will create The White Cat, a fairytale-based opera inspired by Baroque entertainments and based on the story by 17th-century author Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Who is d'Aulnoy and what is The White...
[caption id="attachment_17779" align="alignleft" width="183"] The King puppet designed by Ian Petroni, illustrated by Nina Huryn[/caption] We're incredibly excited to be premiering The White Cat, a new pastiche entertainment based on Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy's 17th-century fairytale, April 23-26, 2020 in 6 performances in...
We talked with soprano Hél├¿ne Brunet, who joins Les Délices for performances of Torchsongs Transformed, March 6-8. Hél├¿ne has an amazing stage presence and feels comfortable crossing genres - and centuries - singing music from the 17th Century to today. Learn...
Artistic Director Debra Nagy talked with us about her inspiration and hopes for LD's new Baroque-Jazz fusion program Torchsongs Transformed, with performances in Akron, Lakewood, and Shaker Heights OH, March 6-8, 2020. Torchsongs Transformed will trace the arc of a love...
Acclaimed Cleveland-based Baroque chamber ensemble Les Délices will conclude their 2019-20 Season with an ambitious new multi-media production called Into the Labyrinth. An abbreviated matinee version of the production, called The White Cat, will also be offered and will include...
Scott Metcalfe, director of Boston’s Blue Heron, was kind enough to answer some questions to give us a sneak peek behind the curtain at what goes into creating a concert like January's Lessons in Love (click here for tickets and...
Cleveland-based early music ensemble Les Délices is pleased to announce the hiring of Laura Wiegand as the organization’s first executive director. Now in their eleventh season under artistic director and founder Debra Nagy, Les Délices has grown to include...
January’s concert, Lessons in Love (click here for tickets and performance information), marks the third time that Les Délices has teamed up with Boston’s Blue Heron to present Medieval music in Cleveland. Late-medieval music is a second specialty for both...
LES DéLICES COMBINES FRENCH BAROQUE LOVE SONGS WITH JAZZ STANDARDS CREATING A “CONVERSATION ACROSS THE CENTURIES,” MARCH 6-8, 2020 Praise for Songs without Words “Les Délices has interwoven pop, jazz, and Baroque music in a coherent, meaningful, and dazzling fashion.” ÔÇô ClevelandClassical.com “a...