Ars Poetica “Nuit et Jour”
NUIT ET JOUR
A romantic exploration of French airs de cour. Featuring works of Michel Lambert, Pierre Guédron, Étienne Moulinié, and others.
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Sonnambula: A Black Masque
Featuring Davóne Tines, bass-baritone. Sonnambula opens its 2025–26 Frick residency with a performance inspired by Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness (1605), an allegorical court entertainment commissioned by Queen Anne of Denmark and originally staged at the Jacobean court. Featuring music by Alfonso Ferrabosco II (only one song by whom survives), the masque depicts African nymphs journeying to England to seek racial purification, reflecting early modern racial anxieties and imperial fantasies. Music by Ferrabosco, Dowland, Byrd; and griot texts from the 13th–18th centuries.
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