“The music is gorgeous.” -The New Yorker

ERC has received wide critical acclaim: a New York Times Critics’ Pick for three years in a row, The Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s 2017 Pershing Square Signature Theater production of Van Gogh’s Ear was hailed by Ben Brantley in the New York Times for its “uncanny beauty and emotionalism.” ERC’s 2015 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) production of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon was hailed by The New York Times as “a dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration.” In 2016, The New York Times praised Anna Akhmatova: The Heart Is Not Made of Stone (BAM – Brooklyn Academy of Music) as “engrossing…gorgeous,” and with “…rapturous accounts of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich….”

“Chamber Music has never been This sexy…” -TheaterMania

ERC’S PROGRAMS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, BREADTH OF REPERTOIRE, AND VARIETY OF SUBJECT MATTER.

Ensemble for the Romantic Century, now in its twenty-fifth season, was founded by pianist Eve Wolf in 2001, with the mission of creating an innovative concert format in which the emotions revealed in memoirs, letters, diaries, and literature are dramatically interwoven with music. ERC’s stellar team includes Eve Wolf, Executive Artistic Director; Donald T. Sanders, Director of Theatrical Production; Max Barros, Co-Artistic Director; James Melo, Musicologist; Vanessa James, Production Designer; Beverly Emmons, Lighting Designer; and David Bengali, Projection Designer, as well as a roster of some of the finest actors and musicians active today. ERC’s theatrical concerts reinforce music’s historical context through its connections with history, politics, philosophy, psychology, and the other arts to create a compelling new performance experience.