The MUST-SEE performance of the season! From the creative mind of acclaimed director Peter Sellars comes his very first a cappella staging and most personal work to date.
Lagrime di San Pietro (The Tears of St. Peter) is a ground-breaking production of Renaissance master Orlando di Lasso’s final work, a collection of 27 madrigals sung a capella in seven parts by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Di Lasso knew that Lagrime was to be the last piece he would ever compose, so he filled every measure with an emotionally charged texture that channeled all of his pain and remorse into a towering work of beauty.
21 singers transform this 75-minute sweeping Renaissance masterpiece – committed to memory and dramatically staged and lit – into an overwhelmingly emotional performance piece. Set to the poetry of Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568), “I accept responsibility” is the fundamental theme of this work, depicting the seven stages of grief that St. Peter experienced after disavowing his knowledge of Jesus Christ on the day of his arrest and prior to Jesus’s crucifixion. Sellars translates Lagrime through a contemporary lens, suggesting a powerful allegory that by taking responsibility and facing our past head-on, we can forge a more resolved and fulfilling future.
“Lagrime is a major accomplishment for the Master Chorale, which sang and acted brilliantly. It’s also a major accomplishment for music history.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Many in the audience, I am sure, will never hear Renaissance music or polyphony the same way again.” (Classical Voice)
Saturday, February 1 | 8pm – CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS (FEBRUARY 1)
Please join us at 7pm for a fascinating pre-concert talk with Peter Sellars
Sunday, February 2 | 2pm – CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS (FEBRUARY 2)
Please join us at 1pm for a fascinating pre-concert talk with Peter Sellars