Haydn’s Creation, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Soprano Soloist Haydn’s Creation with conductor Otto Tausk and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra * Canadian Debut *
Soprano Soloist Haydn’s Creation with conductor Otto Tausk and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra * Canadian Debut *
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Mirror Cabaret! We pair your favorite operas with your favorite musicals, based on the same source material. Think La Boheme v. Rent and Romeo et Juliette v. West Side Story. Sip cocktails, nosh on delicious food and join us at City Winery next May!
Soprano soloist in Sven-David Sandström’s A Messiah for Our Time (2009) with New England Philharmonic and Cantata Singers * East Coast Premiere *
In a fitting conclusion for a city that hosted the American premiere of Handel’s Messiah in 1818, NEP joins forces with Cantata Singers and vocal soloists on Sunday, April 28, at 3 pm in Jordan Hall to present A Messiah for Our Time. Sven-David Sandström’s dramatic 2009 setting of the Messiah’s well-known text will be performed for the first time on the East Coast. Co-conducted by Tianhui Ng and Cantata Singers Music Director Noah Horn, the season finale marks the first collaboration between the two organizations.
Virginia Poe in Dominick Argento & Charles M Nolte’s 1975 opera The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe
Little Stone in Matthew Aucoin & Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice
Conducted by Matthew Aucoin.
Friday, March 1, 2024 | 7:30PM
Sunday, March 3, 2024 | 3PM
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 7:30PM
Friday, March 8, 2024 | 7:30PM
Sunday, March 10, 2024 | 3PM
To The Stars, Douglas Knehans * world premiere *
Premier of a new commission by Anne Harley of Scripps College to texts of the first recorded poet in human history, Enheduanna. Enheduanna was the entu (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur. The work uses texts taken from the cuneiform ancient Sumerian in creating a new work for two sopranos, violin, bass clarinet, hand percussion and electronics.
CIRCLES III: THE SECOND VIENNESE SCHOOL
First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn • 119 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Solo recital at Vanderbilt University with pianist Jennifer McGuire.
Program
Incident, Hannah Kendall + Fleur Adock
Tesla’s Pigeon, Melissa Dunphy + Various Poets
Hvolf, Anna Thorvaldsdottir + Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
Luonnon Kasvot, Kaija Saariaho + Pentti Saarikoski
Setting Sail, Juliana Hall + Emily Dickinson * world premiere *
Naturalization Ceremony performance with pianist Julia Carey
The National Anthem
The New Colossus, Oliver Caplan, music & Emma Lazarus, text
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Cambridge, MA
COMPANY DEBUT: Linda Lampton in Tod Machover’s opera VALIS, based on Philip K. Dick’s 1981 sci-fi novel. Workshop February 2022, Full Production Fall 2023.
Friday, September 8, 2023 | evening performance
Saturday, September 9, 2023 | evening performance
Sunday, September 10, 2023| matinée performance
Stay tuned for info on how to purchase tickets
Excerpts from Die Zauberflöte
Act 1, Sc 1 & Act 1 Quintet (First Lady)
Der Hölle Rache (Queen of the Night)
Join us for two evenings of opera in the garden! On Site Opera returns to the West Side Community Garden for the first time since its production of Mozart’s The Secret Gardener to present concerts of excerpts from two of the world’s most well-known operas.
SERIES DEBUT:
The Log House, A Sylvan Bravura by Anton Philipp Heinrich with pianist Peter Dugan
“Qu’il est doux d’accorder” from Alceste by Jean-Baptiste Lully with mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan and chamber ensemble
April 30th, 1:30pm, Calderwood Hall
COMPANY DEBUT :
Benjamin Attahir De l’ineffable
Harrison Birtwistle Songs from the Same Earth
Hannah Kendall Incident
Aribert Reimann Sinnig zwischen beyden Welten (American Premiere)
Kaija Saariaho Luonnon kasvot
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Hvolf
Maggie Finnegan soprano
Andrew Fuchs tenor
Daniel Moody countertenor
Michael Brofman, Alexa Stier, piano
Chieh-Fan Yiu viola
I’m excited to perform with pianist Ivan Gusev in the Fellows Fanfare at the St.Botolph Club.
Repertoire:
WORLD PREMIERE: 4 songs from Setting Sail: Music by Juliana Hall, words by Emily Dickinson
Toy Boat: Music by Christopher Vu, words by Ocean Vuong
This is a private event.
COMPANY DEBUT: Soprano soloist in Haydn’s The Creation with the Providence Singers
1:00 PM, Grace Episcopal Church, 300 Westminster Street, Providence.
Queens Voice Lab Panel Series
Thursday, November 10 at 4:30 pm
Hello educators of singing! This week I will join Steve Hrycelak along with Michele Kennedy, and Jonathan Woody to dive in to how we have forged our professional careers, what shaped us, and what advice we have for others pursuing careers in singing, with time for questions from participants as well. Please register to attend at the link below, and encourage any young pre-professional singers in your life to join as well!
COMPANY DEBUT: Anya in Everything For Dawn, an epic new video opera series featuring ten 15-minute episodes, each written by a different librettist/composer combo. A web streaming series of daring ambition, Everything for Dawn features collaborations by librettists Jason Cady, Adrienne Danrich, Lauren D’Errico, Krista Knight, Jerry Lieblich, Jerome A. Parker and composers Clarice Assad, Jason Cady, Melissa Dunphy, Miguel Frasconi, Paul Kerekes, Phil Kline, Pauline Kim, Aaron Siegel, Kamala Sankaram, and Matthew Welch.
Everything for Dawn will be broadcast and streamed on AllArts.org starting on Friday October 7, 2022 on ALL ARTS
I am thrilled to be collaborating with American art song composer, Juliana Hall on world premiere recordings of twelve of her new Emily Dickinson settings.
Stay tuned for information on the recording release.
I’m thrilled to join BMOP + Odyssey Opera as Reporter 1 in X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis.
Friday June 17th, 8pm
The Strand Theatre: 543 Columbia Rd, Boston, MA 02125
Michelle in the world premiere film of Marc Hoffeditz’s micro opera U-Hauling.
Viewing is from May 13th at 7pm to May 15th at midnight.
UHauling is a fantastically queer Micro-Opera presented by Black Sheep Contemporary, with music composed by Marc Hoffeditz and libretto written by Aiden K. Feltkamp.
This opera is being premiered virtually. Purchasing a ticket will give you access to the video with a password. The video will be available from May 13th at 7:00pm EST until May 15th at 11:59pm EST.
The duration of the opera is 14 minutes.
"U-Hauling is a comedy about two women who meet on a dating app and decide that their first date will be their Vegas wedding. It's based loosely on the true story of a couple who got married the first day they met." - Feltkamp, Librettist
Sophia in the West Coast premiere of Sophia’s Forest by composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch.
I’m thrilled to return to this opera after performing in the world premiere at Drexel University in 2017.
Viewing begins on January 28th, 2022 on Operabox.tv
I’m thrilled to make my Boston Lyric Opera principle debut as Danica in Ana Sokolović’s Svadba, a Serbian a cappella opera for six women and percussion.
I was thrilled to return to Vital Opera’s for the pre-premiere workshop of Joshua Groffman and Sarah Heady’s opera Halcyon.
Elisa in Mozart’s The Shepherd King with the Little Opera Theatre of New York in collaboration with New Vintage Baroque.