8:00PM

January 13, 2024, Polsky Theatre in the Midwest Trust Center

Pre-show talk with Paul Laird at 7:00 PM

Featuring trailblazing women composers through the ages and the formidable women in Shakespeare’s most beloved plays.

This collaborative, script in hand performance brings together the Bach Aria Soloists with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for an all-women tour-de-force! Riveting scenes from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “As You Like it,” “King Lear,” “Hamlet,” “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Twelfth Night,” “Othello” and “Merry Wives of Windsor,” paired with the extraordinary music of the following pioneers, a true fête for women!

Program: 

• McDowall | 4 Shakespeare Songs

• Hildegard von Bingen | antiphon

• Strozzi | L’Amante Segrete

• La Folia Variations

• Jacquet de la Guerre | Violin Sonata in D: Adagio, Presto

• Kander | Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child

Price: Individual Tickets: $35 Tickets are purchased through the Midwest Trust Center Box Office.  Individual tickets on sale August 7, 2023. Subscribers can call Midwest Trust Center Box office to select seats.