Lauded ensemble Les Violons du Roy returns to Purdue joined by acclaimed countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Chamber ensemble Les Violins du Roy returns to Purdue, this time joined by Anthony Roth Costanzo. The performance at 3 p.m. Oct. 21 (Sunday) in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from Westminster Village and Dr. Michael L. Seretny. 

Chamber music echoes readily reverberate among today’s composers, arrangers and performers. Philip Glass has credited George Frideric Handel with teaching him more about “exercising the voice” than any other composer for the human instrument. A natural fit, then, to place Handel and Glass parallel on the program for Juno Award-winner Les Violons du Roy in their return engagement to Purdue Convocations. This ensemble gives contemporary audiences their most authentic comparison to chamber music as it was initially heard by monarchs and their courtiers. Here, they are joined by acclaimed countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo — performing Handel arias and Glass songs in a collaboration “Le Soleil” described as “a unique, refined, and explosive concert. 

Tickets are $28 for adults and $22 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Stewart Center box office at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Group tickets are also available to groups of 10 more. Call 765-496-1977 for more details or visit https://purdue.edu/convocations/group-sales/.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, (765)494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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