(Editor’s note: This show is canceled).

The show features soprano Linda Tsatsanis, harpsichordist Donald Livingston and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan. They will  celebrate Corelli’s 300th anniversary with two of Corelli’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord from an early 18th-century transcription for flute, and great vocal works by Handel including joyous and heart-wrenching selections from the Nine German Arias, Sweet Bird from L’Allegro, il Pensiero ed il Moderato, and the cantata Lucrezia, a dramatic portrayal of the legend of Lucretia, whose rape and subsequent suicide in ancient Rome led to the formation of the Roman Republic.

Corelli and Handel’s Soprano is the second of five 2013 Salish Sea Early Music Festival performances on Lopez Island from January through June with some of the world’s most accomplished performers on period instruments from Germany, Montreal, Eugene, Los Angeles and the Northwest.