Welcome to our 2025-2026 Season
Literary Circles
Literature and music have long been intertwined through storytelling and the exploration of the human experience. In this spirit, Repast presents Literary Circles, a series of concerts inspired by the literary genres of Myth, Science Fiction, the Classics, Adventure and Romance.
The season opens with the deep roots of storytelling in Myth: Stories from Oral Traditions. Fairy tales, myths, and legends provide inspiration for musical retellings based on oral traditions. Joined by narrator Erin Hall, Repast recounts stories from English folklore, Greek mythology, Irish seanchaí, Ethiopian oduu durii, and French opéra féerie told through music from the 17th and 18th centuries by Bach, Bernier, Mascitti, Arne, Lampe, and Riddell.
September 19, 20, & 21, 2025
Enter the world of speculation and imagination with Science Fiction: The New Music of the Spheres. Commencing with a love-sick cry to the stars in Monteverdi’s madrigal Sfogava con stelle, this collaborative program between new music Ensemble Ipse and early music group Repast Baroque explores themes of novelty and innovation spanning from the 16th-century philosophy of music of the spheres to Science Fiction and technology of our modern age alongside new works by Molly Herron, Judith Berkson, Joseph Di Ponio, Stephanie Griffin, and Max Duykers.
November 22 & 23, 2025
Classics: King Arthur and Robin Hood features the chivalrous bass-baritone Paul Max Tipton in a profile of two beloved English folk heroes. Legendary King Arthur and his circle of gallant knights hold court with Dibdin’s The institution of the Garter, or Arthur's Round Table restored (1745) and Purcell’s King Arthur (1691). Robin Hood, a rebel hero of broadside ballads and Shield’s comic opera Robin Hood (1784), comes through as the people’s champion.
March 27, 28, & 29, 2026
In Adventure & Romance: The Iron Mask, Repast creates a new live score for the film The Iron Mask (1929), based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. The final chapter in the D’artangian trilogy, the film follows the Three Musketeers as they return from retirement to save Louis XIV from his illegitimate twin who attempts to usurp the French throne. Music by Lully, Jacquet de La Guerre, Marais, Charpentier, Couperin, Praetorius, DuCaurroy, Boesset, and Caroubel.
May 29, 30, & 31, 2026
We look forward to sharing music and literature with you this season!