(Credit: Marie Noorbergen)

The Musco Center for the Arts will present the LA Master Chorale in a staging of Orlando di Lasso’s “Lagrime Di San Pietro” on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

The performance will be directed by famed director Peter Sellars with LA Master Chorale Artistic Director Grant Gershon conducting the a cappella masterpiece. This will be Sellars’ first time staging an a cappella piece.

“Polyphony of this kind of depth and detail is totally sculptural,” Sellars said in a press release. “You also get this muscular intensity in Lasso’s writing that is reminiscent of this expressive language we know so well, visually, from Michelangelo.”

“I have to say I feel like the Musco Center was made for ‘Lagrime,’” added Gershon. “We’re so excited, all of us who have been in the auditorium to hear a concert or perform on stage feel it is absolutely the ideal venue for Lagrime de San Pietro. This is a piece that requires an acoustic with a lot of warmth to it and a beautiful resonance for that a cappella renaissance style.”