BAROQUE FOR ALL CELEBRATION, JULY 15-17, 2022
Fresh off the success of Julie, Monster, RVA Baroque is launching its next Big Thing: Baroque for All Celebration – a three-day community music festival. The venues are spectacular. The programs are engaging and eclectic. Open mind, heart and ears are all you need to bring. The performers are Richmonders celebrating Richmond. Prices are “pay as you will.” Fifteen to fifty dollars (except the opera): let your budget and your enthusiasm decide. Refreshments and cash bar at most events. Read on for more information. Purchase tickets online through the links below or at the door.
FRIDAY, JULY 15 8:00-9:00 p.m.
Artspace Gallery, 2833-A Hathaway Road, Richmond, VA 23225
Our Favorite Things
To kick off Baroque for All, we’re reconnecting with musicians who've worked with RVA Baroque over the last dozen years. Duos, trios, quartets...we gave them only one instruction--perform something you love. Build in a little extra time to enjoy the last night of Artspace's biennial juried exhibition Radius 250.
SATURDAY, JULY 16 6:00-7:00 p.m.
The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, 2501 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220 (outdoors)
Ladies Sing the Blues
In the shaded garden of one of Richmond's grandest houses, listen to songs of hard luck and lost love from the female point of view. Some of Richmond's most electrifying singers interpret great singer-songwriters of the past 450 years: Victoria Kinney and Barbara Strozzi, E.W. Fleming Ross (Christmas Snow) and Billie Holiday, Diana Carver and Nina Simone. Jaylin Brown sings selections from her just-released EP
Saturday, JULY 16 7:30-8:30 p.m.
The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, 2501 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220 (indoors)
Who Are Your Influences?
That's a question jazz musicians ask each other when meeting for the first time. Richmond's classical composer Robert Andrew Scott’s influences go back eight centuries. We present a sampling of Robert's chamber pieces alongside works from the past that inspired and informed them.
SUNDAY, JULY 17 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Congregation Beth Ahabah, 1121 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23220
Interfaith Baroque
It wasn’t a thing then, but it is now. Singers from Congregation Beth Ahabah (Reform Jewish) and St. Benedict (Roman Catholic) join RVA Baroque instrumentalists in an hour of 17th century sacred music in Hebrew, Latin and English.
Sunday, JULY 17 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Springhill Gallery, 4305 Springhill Avenue, Richmond, VA 23225 (outside)
The Coronation of Poppea (opera)
Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 masterwork uses breathtakingly sensuous music to tell a dark tale of ambition and betrayal. With early music star and Richmond favorite Anne O’Byrne as the would-be empress Poppea. Fully staged and performed by Capitol Opera Richmond, RVA Baroque and the Latin Ballet of Virginia in an intimate private-house venue. Admission fee: $50 (seating limited to 50).