Photos: Monteverdi operas
Francesca Aspromonte, left, and Krystian Adam, middle, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting, perform “Vespers of 1610” with English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir at the Segerstrom Concert Hall. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Francesca Aspromonte, left, with conductor John Eliot Gardiner, perform “Vespers of 1610” at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Francesca Aspromonte, left, and Krystian Adam. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Francesca Aspromonte, left, performs and John Eliot Gardiner conducts. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Francesca Aspromonte, left, and Marian Flores perform with English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir at Segerstrom Concert Hall. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Conductor John Eliot Gardiner acknowledges the crowd before conducting “Vespers of 1610” with English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir at the Segerstrom Concert Hall. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Gina Ferazzi grew up in the small New England town of Longmeadow, Mass. She has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Her photos are a part of the staff Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News in 2016 for the San Bernardino terrorist attack and for the wildfires in 2004. She’s an all-around photographer covering assignments from Winter Olympics, presidential campaigns to local and national news events. Her video documentaries include stories on black tar heroin, health clinics, women priests and Marine suicide. A two-sport scholarship athlete at the University of Maine, Orono, she still holds the record for five goals in one field hockey game.