ARTEK @ The Flea: Spring 2018
One of The Flea’s Anchor Partners, ARTEK (The Art of the Early Keyboard) is back with a baroque theater show and two one-night-only concerts!
ARTEMISIA: Light and Shadow
A newly conceived one-woman show on the life and art of 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Tuesday, May 15 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May 17 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 19 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, May 20 @ 4pm
Sunday, May 20 @ 7:30pm
Ticket Prices: $40 for General Admission, $20 for Under 25 & Over 65
Running Time: 75 Minutes with No Intermission
A life more dramatic than an Italian opera: trained in art by her father, raped as a teenager, she survived a sensational trial to become an internationally renowned painter – and the secret lover of a Florentine nobleman.
Sarah Chalfy as Artemisia
Baroque music by Barbara Strozzi & Francesco Cavalli
Nahma Sandrow, libretto
Gwendolyn Toth, music director
Paul Peers, stage director
Chenault Spence, lighting design
Carol Sherry, costume design
*All ticket prices include a $2 Theater Restoration Fee.
Madrigal Madness & Lute Lunacy
Two concerts featuring ARTEK’s early music stars with young artist guests.
Wednesday, May 16 @ 7:30pm: Madrigals from Books 2 & 3 of Monteverdi
Friday, May 18 @ 7:30pm: 17th-century theorbo & lute music with Daniel Swenberg and Charles Weaver
Running Time: 60 Minutes with No Intermission
Ticket Prices: $20 for General Admission, $10 for Students
*All ticket prices include a $2 Theater Restoration Fee.