July 12: Anthony Roth Costanzo and Twelfth Night ensemble step in for cancelled Cappella Mediterranea performance at Caramoor
(June 2025)—Caramoor announced today that Anthony Roth Costanzo – the “super-cool, multi-talented and dauntlessly adventurous American countertenor” (The Telegraph) – and the Twelfth Night period-instrument ensemble will be added to the summer schedule to replace Cappella Mediterranea’s planned performance of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, which has been canceled due to visa processing delays. Costanzo’s program will feature arias by Handel and Vivaldi. While regretting the loss of this special performance, Caramoor feels deeply fortunate to have been able to engage such acclaimed artists as a replacement on short notice and looks forward to scheduling a performance with Cappella Mediterranea in a future season.
Costanzo, who recently produced and starred in The Comet/Poppea at Lincoln Center and whose debut solo album, Glass/Handel, paired the two iconic composers and was subsequently toured as an innovative, live multi-media spectacle, will perform arias by both Handel and Vivaldi. He will be backed up by the historical performance specialists of Twelfth Night, an ensemble formed in 2021 by artistic directors David Belkovski and Rachell Ellen Wong, who met during their time as students in the Historical Performance division of The Juilliard School. Twelfth Night made their enthusiastically received Caramoor debut this past April, performing Handel’s Aminta e Fillide in the Rosen House Music Room, and Costanzo’s latest Caramoor performance was in Handel’s Theodora in 2022.
All tickets will be automatically transferred to the new performance with no further action required. Ticketholders will be notified via email and phone about the programming change.
About Anthony Roth Costanzo
Grammy-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia, and the Artistic Director of SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. He has with appeared many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies and orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Opera National de Paris, Teatro Real, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Berlin Philharmonic, NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, Kabuki-Za Tokyo, the Guggenheim, the Park Avenue Armory, and Little Island. As a producer, he has created projects for Opera Philadelphia, the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Proms, WQXR, and St. Ann’s Warehouse among others. Costanzo graduated with honors from Princeton University, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is now on the board of trustees along with being on the board of National Black Theater. A winner of the Met Opera Competition and Operalia, Costanzo also has an Honorary Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a History Makers Award from the New York Historical, and in 2024 has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard. He has been in a Merchant Ivory film and has a forthcoming book for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
About Twelfth Night
Described as “an absolute gift to see live” (The Nevada Sagebrush), Twelfth Night is a refreshingly new ensemble of historical performance specialists led by keyboardist David Belkovski and violinist Rachell Ellen Wong, formed with the firm belief that art is best explored as a meeting place of the past, present, and future. Inspired by Shakespeare’s play of the same name, the ensemble strives to invoke a spirit of boundless revelry, celebration, and community in their programming. Based in New York City and founded in 2021, the two directors are regarded as key young representatives of early music: Rachell is the only baroque artist to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant and David is the first recipient in the field of early music to receive the Levinson Arts Achievement Award. In the 2022-23 season, Twelfth Night was hosted in concert series across the country, including Arizona Early Music (Tucson), Chatham Baroque (Pittsburgh), Chamberfest Brown County (Nashville, IN), Music Before 1800 (NYC), and Apex Concert Series (Reno). This year, they were the only historical performance ensemble to be featured at Chamber Music America’s national conference showcase. In addition, David and Rachell make their debut co-directing New World Symphony in Miami. Further 2023-24 concerts include works of chamber music with fortepiano in Washington state, recitals for Early Music Seattle and the Heifetz International Music Institute, and an appearance on the Chamber Music Society of Logan (Utah) series. Twelfth Night debuted at Carnegie Hall in May 2024 with their most ambitious project yet, a night of orchestral and operatic masterworks throughout the Baroque. David and Rachell met during their time as students in the Historical Performance division of The Juilliard School. Endless hours rehearsing and performing together confirmed a special chemistry and shared vision, inspiring them to dream up an ensemble for the 21st century. Through Twelfth Night, they are eager to position historical performance as an integral part of all performance.
About Caramoor
Caramoor is a cultural arts destination located on a unique 80-plus-acre campus with Italianate architecture and gardens in Northern Westchester County, NY. Its beautiful grounds include the historic Rosen House, a stunning mansion listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Besides enriching the lives of its audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, Caramoor mentors young professional musicians and provides music-centered educational programs for young children.
Getting to Caramoor
Getting to Caramoor is simple by car or public transportation. All parking is free and close to the performance areas. Handicapped parking is also free and readily available. By car from New York City, take the Henry Hudson Parkway north to the Saw Mill River Parkway north to I-684 north to Exit 6. Go east on Route 35 to the traffic light (0.3 miles). Turn right onto Route 22 south, and travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road where there is a green Caramoor sign. At the junction, veer left and make a quick right onto Girdle Ridge Road. Continue on Girdle Ridge Road 0.5 miles to the Caramoor gates on the right. Approximate drive time is one hour. By train from Grand Central Station, take the Harlem Division Line of the Metro-North Railroad heading to Southeast, and exit at Katonah. Caramoor is a 3.5-mile drive from the Katonah station.
Caramoor presents Anthony Roth Costanzo and Twelfth Night
Sat, July 12 at 7:30pm
Venetian Theater
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Twelfth Night
Selected arias by George Frideric HANDEL and Antonio VIVALDI