The Academy of Sacred Drama produces performances of semi-staged musical dramas called oratorios from the Baroque era and collaborates with partner artists and ensembles through the Westchester County-based arts incubator MereArts.
Experience productions in New York City, Scarsdale, and Upper Westchester County featuring oratorios by castrati on the theme of early Christian martyrs—as well as concerts by gifted MereArts collaborators.
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From striking tableaus and moving instrumental music to fantastic arias, get a window into the unique work of the Academy.
The Academy’s artists include critically acclaimed singers, gifted translators, virtuosic string players, and a dynamite continuo team of harpsichord, viola da gamba, and theorbo.
The piece is lovely, ornate and contrapuntal. The scene is shadowed and intimate, another quiet moment of excellent New York music-making.
The whole performance seemed tailored to the present moment, as it breathed melodious life into a dusty manuscript that had waited 300 years to be so up-to-date.
Attend a performance by New York’s Academy of Sacred Drama and you’re guaranteed to experience something that you have never heard before.
The Academy used [Draghi’s Stabat Mater] as a striking exit processional.
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