Booking and details
Get TicketsDates Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 6pm ET
Venue Virtual - On Zoom
Tickets $10; free for Folger Members and Subscribers
Duration 60 minutes
Folger Consort Artistic Director Robert Eisenstein leads a lively virtual seminar that offers a sneak peek at the music performed in the Folger Consort’s upcoming concert Monteverdi’s Legacy.
About the concert
Folger Consort launches its 50th season with the musical equivalent of a gondola tour through 17th-century Venice, where the innovations of the early Baroque got their start in the City of Canals. Venice was already an established center of church music when Claudio Monteverdi was appointed music director at San Marco in 1613. By the time of his death, 30 years later, Venice was a flourishing home for early opera and chamber music. In this program of virtuosic and expressive music, Folger Consort will perform madrigals, motets, sonatas, and operatic excerpts by Monteverdi and his students and admirers, including Rovetta, Cavalli, and Marini.
Who’s Who
Robert Eisenstein
Robert Eisenstein, Artistic Director (bass viol)
Robert Eisenstein has led over 200 productions and performances with Folger Consort over the past 40 years, including Measure + Dido at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Napa Valley Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice at Strathmore, The Fairy Queen, and Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at the Washington National Cathedral. Recently retired as the Director of the Five College Early Music Program; Music Director for the Five College Opera Project production of Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero; Mount Holyoke College faculty emeritus, where he taught music history and performed on the viola de gamba, violin, and medieval fiddle. He is an active participant in Five College Medieval Studies. Recipient of Early Music America’s Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a college early music ensemble.
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