In the District, Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts is pleased to include a free performance at the close of every workweek. The time is Friday at 1:30 in the afternoon inside the McNeir Auditorium on the main campus. “The Friday Music Series was established to bring together Georgetown University and local communities of the Washington metro area,” said Anthony DelDonna, director of Georgetown University’s Music Program. “Each year, we offer an exciting series of free concerts featuring local, national and international musicians, performing in diverse traditions and genres ranging from eighteenth-century Italian opera to Brazilian choro to contemporary music.”
Sept. 16 kicks off the season with a presentation of Italian opera from 18th-century Naples. The program features works by Domineco Cimarosa and Pietro Allesandro Guglielmi. Guest performers include soprano Jennifer Ellis Kampani along with two esteemed members of the Peabody Institute faculty, baritone Richard Giarusso and harpsichordist Mark Janello.
