2026 Season · Production I

Agony & Ecstasy


Music of Vivaldi and Pergolesi — an evening of profound emotional extremes, taking audiences from celestial ecstasy to piercing agony and back again.

Date

Fri 27 March 2026

Time

7:00 – 8:20 PM

Venue

Albert St Uniting Church

Location

Brisbane City

The Programme


From celestial ecstasy to piercing agony.

Brisbane Lyric Opera opens its inaugural season with two of the baroque era's most arresting sacred works.

Vivaldi's motets — written for the Venetian Ospedale della Pietà — soar with virtuosic joy, while Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, composed on his deathbed at just twenty-six, remains one of the most moving settings of sacred text ever penned.

Performed in the cathedral-like acoustics of Albert Street Uniting Church, this is an evening that traverses the full emotional arc of the human experience.

Repertoire


The Programme

Vivaldi
Sum in medio tempestatumRV 632 · motet for soprano
Vivaldi
Ascende laetaRV 635 · motet for soprano
Pergolesi
Stabat MaterP. 77 · for soprano, mezzo-soprano and strings

Cast & Musicians


The ensemble.

Soprano
Michelle Ryan
Mezzo-Soprano
Aylish Ryan
Conductor · Organ
Ellen Buckley
Violin I
Eleanor Adeney
Violin II
Alys Rayner
Viola
Michele Adeney
Cello
Michael Gibson

Proudly Presented With


Woodford-Carr & Associates

2026 Season · Production I


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