Apollo's Fire Performs At Caramoor And Ravinia Festivals In June, And Aldeburgh Festival During UK/Ireland Tour In August 2018
Following their successful 2017/18 touring schedule - which included the ensemble's sold-out Carnegie Hall debut on March 22, a new production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, and a new album release on the AVIE label with Songs of Orpheus - Apollo's Fire launches its 2018 summer with performances throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Italy. Led by founding Artistic Director and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, the acclaimed baroque orchestra's summer programs will feature music by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Telemann, as well as Sorrell's critically acclaimed Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering.
Apollo's Fire begins its summer tour on June 24 with its debut performance at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, featuring a program of virtuosic works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, including Sorrell's celebrated arrangement of Vivaldi's La Folia ("Madness"). Following the orchestra's sold-out debut at Chicago's Ravinia Festival last summer, Apollo's Fire returns on June 26 with its popular popular A Night at Bach's Coffeehouse program. Inspired by J.S. Bach's coffeehouse concerts at Café Zimmermann in Leipzig, A Night at Bach's Coffeehouse brings together the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries, including Vivaldi and Telemann.
In August, Apollo's Fire returns to the Gretna Music Festival in Mt. Gretna, PA with its Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering program before embarking on a week-long tour of the program to the United Kingdom and Ireland. This tour, which is sponsored by the Ulster-Scots Agency, marks the ensemble's Ireland debut.
Created by Sorrell, Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Gathering explores the British, Celtic, and African-American roots of the soulful music of Appalachia. Apollo's Fire's 2018 U.K. and Ireland Summer Tour begins on August 12 with a return to the Aldeburgh Festival, followed by performances in Dublin (National Concert Hall of Ireland); Belfast, Derry, and Ballymena, Northern Ireland; and ending on August 19 at the National Opera House in Wexford, Ireland.
Apollo's Fire concludes its 2018 summer season on August 24 with a return to the Tuscan Landscapes Festival in San Quirico d'Orcia in Italy's Tuscany region.
Highlights of Apollo's Fire's 2018/19 touring season include the ensemble's return to New York City with the festive Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain - An Appalachian Celebration program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 16. In March 2019, Apollo's Fire will tour Florida and Wisconsin with its Virtuoso Bach & Vivaldi program. A full schedule of 2018/19 dates will be announced later.
For more information on Apollo's Fire Summer 2018 tour and 2018/19 season, click here.
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