We are delighted by the success of our inaugural production, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, which played to sold-out houses at Le Poisson Rouge from August 20 to 27, 2008.

We’re also thrilled by the amount of press we received. If you missed the show (or saw it and are curious), you can read reviews in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Classics Today, Concertonet.com, and the Gay City News have to say about us.

Elsewhere on the internet, Mark Adamo and Roger Evans have to say, and check out Alex Ross‘s (also) excellent column in which we got a quick mention. There’s also the Times preview to which we probably owe both the sold-out houses and the attention, which you can read here.

We will be announcing our future plans soon; in the meantime, we are busily considering programming ideas, recruiting a board of directors, paying our bills (and, to be honest, catching up with the rest of our lives that were of course interrupted by the opera). If you’d like to offer us any input during this process (or join our mailing list so that we can keep you updated about our plans), please do so here.