Yamel Domort in Concert [] Capilla de la Tercera Orden

Saturday, November 20, 2021
4:00 pm

Capilla de la Tercera Orden

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Chorale San Miguel, one of the city’s foremost music organizations, is inaugurating a new chamber music series, Saturdays at 4. The first concert, on Saturday, November 20, at 4pm, is now on sale.

The concert will mark the San Miguel solo debut of soprano Yamel Domort, one of Mexico’s greatest opera stars, awarded the title of “Best Latin American Singer 2020” at the Global Cultural Initiative’s World Festival competition.

With Chorale San Miguel principal conductor Malcolm Halliday at the piano, Domort will perform the Berlioz song cycle Les nuits d’été (Summer Nights); Haydn’s dramatic and delightful Arianna a Naxos, a mini-opera about the Cretan princess of Greek mythology; and two songs by Richard Strauss.

The series will mark another first – the opening of the magnificent Main Cloister of the Templo de la Tercera Orden as a concert venue.  Audiences for Chorale San Miguel’s hugely popular performances of the Mozart Requiem and Handel Messiah in late 2019 were the first to attend concerts in the grand Chapel of the Tercera Orden, the 18th century temple that adjoins the San Francisco Church, on the corner of San Francisco and Juarez. The “Saturdays at 4” chamber series will use another part of the Tercera Orden temple, the Main Cloister, which has a lower and an upper level.

The Main Cloister is not merely a beautiful setting.  It has the added advantage of being an open-air space, where seats will be spread out at a distance, and covered on the sides, shielding concertgoers from the elements.  Though effectively outdoors, making it vastly more Covid-safe, the venue still has wonderful acoustics.  Halliday will accompany Domort on a donated Yamaha grand piano.

Tickets for the lower level can be purchased for a donation of 500 pesos, and for the upper level, 350 pesos. (Getting to the upper level requires climbing some stairs.)