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Good Friday in Jerusalem — Video from London
Cappella Romana releases its 20th recording in conjunction with performances of music for Good Friday in Jerusalem THIS WEEKEND. Directed by Alexander Lingas featuring solo psaltis Stelios Kontakiotis. This film features the performance at London’s oldest church, St-Bartholomew-the-Great in the City of London. Pre-Order Good Friday in Jerusalem on Amazon Today! Good Friday in Jerusalem…
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Meet Stelios Kontakiotis
Stelios Kontakiotis, principal soloist Stelios Kontakiotis is protopsaltis (first chanter) of the Holy Temple of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary on the sacred island of Tinos, Greece, one of the most prominent pilgrimage sites in Greece. Mr. Kontakiotis was born in Athens and grew up on the island of Amorgos (Cyclades-Greece). He began his…
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Congratulations Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos
All of us at Cappella Romana wish to congratulate Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos on his being awarded a PhD in Musicology at City University London today. He was advised (with a dissertation on the Byzantine composer and theorist Manuel Chrysaphes) by Cappella Romana’s founder and artistic director Dr. Alexander Lingas, who serves on the faculty at…
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Stream “In Procession to the Mount of Olives”
Stream In Procession to the Mount of Olives Antiphon 1 in Mode Plagal 4 from Good Friday In Jerusalem on the Cappella Romana SoundCloud Channel and pre-order from Amazon today! Good Friday in Jerusalem Concert Tickets and Information
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Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil
All-Night vigil Sergei Rachmaninoff Cappella Romana John Michael Boyer, Interim Music Director SEATTLE Fri 16 Oct 2026, 7:30 PMSt. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral1245 10th Ave ESeattle, WA 98102 PORTLAND Sat 17 Oct 2026, 2:00 PMSt. Mary’s Cathedral1739 NW Couch St Portland, OR 97209 Program Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): All-Night Vigil Composed in 1915, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil…
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Echoes of the Renaissance – Pre-Concert Talks
Dr. Gil Seeley, music professor emeritus of Lewis and Clark College and of the Oregon Repertory Singers, will give the pre-concert talks for “Echoes of the Renaissance.” He was a classmate of Tikey Zes at the University of Southern California, and also knew Greek American composer and church musician Frank Desby, also a graduate of USC.…
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Watch Cappella Romana’s Twelfth Night Performance
Watch the full performance from the Twelfth Night Festival in New York City courtesy of Trinity Wall Street!
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Alexander Lingas Introduces the 2025–26 Season
As Founder and Musical Director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, it brings me great joy to introduce It’s About Time, our 2025–2026 season of concerts in the Pacific Northwest. Traversing time and space, we perform music ranging in mood from quiet contemplation to joyful ecstasy, capped off by a return visit from our amazing friends The Tallis Scholars.…
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Cappella Romana sings Christmas Carols at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Christmas Carols on Wednesday, 10 December Cappella Romana sings at Pioneer Courthouse Square Wednesday, 10 December, 5:00pm Pioneer Courthouse Square: SW 6th & Yamhill FREE Stop by Pioneer Courthouse Square to enjoy a selection of Christmas carols, featuring especially selections by the late Orthodox composer Richard Toensing (recorded on the CD “Kontakion on the Nativity”).…
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OPA! TO ALL!
Opa! To All! OPA — your Mind !OPA — your Heart !OPA — your Wallet ! “OPA” means Joy in raising funds forCappella Romana’s Impact on the Community Sunday, May 18, 2025, 4:30 pm – 7:00 pmOur Lady of the Lake Parish650 A Avenue, Lake Oswego Following the 3:00pm concert Passion and Resurrection Hors d’oeuvres…
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Handel’s Messiah — Notes by John Butt
Messiah The libretto that the irascible Charles Jennens sent to Handel at some point in the summer of 1741 was not in itself an extraordinary document within the Christian tradition. After all, the Gospels and Epistles already made ample reference to the way in which the New Testament was foretold in the Old, and this tradition…
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BBC Radio 4 Features Alexander Lingas
BBC Radio 4 interviews Cappella Romana artistic director Alexander Lingas in the second episode of the series, Byzantium Unearthed, and Cappella Romana can be heard in the opening of the first episode as well as throughout! Click below to listen to Episode Two; Alexander Lingas comes in around 15:00 mark:
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