La Femme Francoise!
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 4 pm
The Community Women’s Orchestra presents our International Women’s Day Concert, La Femme Francoise! From Louise Farrenc's dark and brooding Symphony No. 3 to selections Bizet's Carmen, Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, and operatic overtures in between, this concert celebrates the captivating and strong-willed women of French Classical Music, both historical and fictional alike. With stunning performances from mezzo-soprano Sara Couden and a sweeping journey through 19th-century French music, this is a performance you won't want to miss!
CONCERT DETAILS:
Community Women’s Orchestra Presents La Femme Francoise! An International Women’s Day Concert
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 4pm
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland. 2619 Broadway Oakland, CA
For more information and to reserve tickets, visit our website: Communitywomensorchestra.org
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY WOMEN’S ORCHESTRA
Now in our 40th concert season, CWO continues to fulfill our mission to create a welcoming environment to engage, inspire and celebrate women in classical music. Founded in 1985 as a community adjunct to Women’s Philharmonic, the CWO became an independent non-profit in 2004, has grown to more than sixty members, and is one of few all-women's orchestras in the United States.
ABOUT SARA COUDEN
Praised for her "unusually rich and resonant voice" (Opera News), contralto Sara Couden is a premiere interpreter of operatic, concert, and song repertoire. Opera engagements for 2024 include Baba the Turk with Lakes Area Music Festival, as well as her San Francisco Opera debut as Rita in The Handmaid’s Tale (and Serena Joy cover). Concerts include Beethoven 9 with Seattle Symphony, Mass in B Minor with Santa Cruz Symphony, Duruflé Requiem with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, and a concert of art songs and piano chamber music with Jenny Lin and Philip Setzer at the Manchester Music Festival. Ms. Couden holds a MM in Opera from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an AD in Early Music, Chamber Music, and Oratorio from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.