Anna Carol Dudley

Anna Carol Dudley is a singer, teacher, UC Berkeley faculty emerita, San Francisco State University lecturer emerita, and director emerita of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Baroque Music Workshop.

Articles By This Author

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Review

Putting on English Ayres and Rants

Anna Carol Dudley - May 5, 2009
Folks who showed up at Berkeley’s Music Sources Sunday evening, expecting to be transported to the Dorset Garden Theatre in 17th-century London, found that the Theatre’s advertised program had undergone some changes. Since a couple of key players in the Galileo Project had transported themselves back to Estonia, said Project had withdrawn from the program.
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Preview

War Requiem

Anna Carol Dudley - April 14, 2009
Chamber Chorus
Benjamin Britten's monumental War Requiem will be heard Wednesday, April 22 at the UC Berkeley campus.
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Review

Songs Without a Happy End

Anna Carol Dudley - April 7, 2009
Kurt Weill and several of his cabaret contemporaries from the “Roaring Twenties” in Berlin roared into the Martin Meyer Sanctuary at Temple Emanu-El Sunday afternoon.
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Review

Poet Tells the Tale

Anna Carol Dudley - March 3, 2009

Berkeley Opera’s performance of The Tales of Hoffmann, which opened Saturday at the Julia Morgan Center, is a resounding success.

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Review

When the Audience is the Congregation

Anna Carol Dudley - February 10, 2009

Heinrich Schütz suggested that his Musikalische Exequien could be a substitute for a German mass. Warren Stewart has taken him at his word, incorporating the work into a full-length church service. Stewart’s Magnificat, complete with two organs, a continuo group, and eight singers (including a preacher and a deacon), performed the mass Saturday night at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley. The so-called audience served as congregation, joining in on some verses of the chorales.

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Seducer on the Loose

Anna Carol Dudley - January 27, 2009
San Francisco Lyric Opera's ambitious production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, heard Sunday afternoon at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason, owes much to Romania. Two outstanding singers from that country led the accomplished cast of this beloved classic: Eugene Brancoveanu as Don Giovanni and Razvan Georgescu as his sidekick, Leporello.
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Review

Jesus Chronicles

Anna Carol Dudley - January 20, 2009
The Chalice Consort brought its remarkable sound and splendid musicianship to St. Monica Catholic Church in San Francisco Saturday night, in an a cappella concert ably led by Matthew Walsh.
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With Good Grace

Anna Carol Dudley - January 13, 2009
Trinity Chamber Concerts in Berkeley presents "the finest of Northern California's emerging musicians." Saturday night's concert was performed by four accomplished, thoroughly emerged performers who have recently come together in an ensemble somewhat ambiguously called Les grâces: Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Annette Bauer, recorders; Rebekah Ahrendt, viola da gamba; and Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsic

Spirited Rejoicing, Bitter Mourning

Anna Carol Dudley - November 25, 2008
Chora Nova made a "Voyage of Discovery" Saturday night to the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, introducing its audience to composers usually encountered mainly in Baroque music workshops.

Divine Delights

Anna Carol Dudley - November 18, 2008
The Pacific Collegium presented a splendid concert Saturday night at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. For this performance of French Baroque music, the Collegium consisted of three superb singers plus continuo.