The Newberry Consort
Our 37th season embraces the spirit of collaboration.
Welcome to the
2023-2024 Season !
The Newberry Consort’s 37th season embraces the spirit of collaboration. We start the season in partnership with Haymarket Opera to offer a mini-festival of 17th-century music by women composers, featuring The Newberry Consort’s program In the Castle of the Moon and Haymarket’s production of Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. In December, Salomé Sandoval, a fan favorite, returns to co-direct our expanded Latin-American Christmas program. In 2024, we join with Trobár medieval ensemble and Catalina Vicens for music of the famous European menestral schools, and we close the season with opulent music of the Venetian Renaissance with Incantare. We are thrilled to join forces with friends old and new, both in Chicago and beyond, for programs that celebrate ties between teacher and student, the melding of cultures, and meetings of the minds.
I can’t believe our 36th season is over! It seems like only yesterday that I arrived in Chicago, even though the calendar tells me more than a year has gone by! During this time, The Newberry Consort presented four major programs: Madama Europa in the Gonzaga Court, featuring lush Italian music from sixteenth-century Mantua; an encore of A Mexican Christmas, guest directed by Artistic Director Emerita Ellen Hargis; Oracles, Prophets, and Dreams, with music by Orlande de Lassus and other composers; and Singen und Sagen: Music for Hope in a Time of War, a spectacular and heartfelt collaboration with the amazing vocalists of Bella Voce.