Soloist in Donald Grantham' + Pablo Neruda’s La canción desesperada for soprano, baritone, solo violin and chorus.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7:30pm
First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Adam Kerry Boyles, Guest Conductor
James R. Barkovic, Assistant Conductor
Friday-Sunday, December 13-15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Maso Studio at The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Tix: Tickets go on sale in November 2024.
This year’s Let’s Celebrate! is the third in WSP’s annual festive opera series drawing on diverse cultural traditions to supplement traditional holiday programming. Tailored to Boston’s beautiful and diverse community of artists and opera lovers, this season’s performances feature three 20- minute operas showcasing the holiday traditions of Uzbekistan, Mexico, and Spain, composed by emerging composers. Works and performers TBA this Fall 2024.
The lieder of Mozart and Haydn represent the charming innocence of Viennese Classicism. Beethoven’s revolutionary innovations in song changed forever what was possible with poetry and music.
Franz Joseph Haydn: Selected Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Selected Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46, An die Hoffnung, Op.94 An Die Ferne Geliebte Op. 98
Ashley Emerson, Maggie Finnegan soprano
Katherine Lerner mezzo-soprano
Michael Kelly baritone
Mike Brofman, Brent Funderburk, Joel Harder piano
Xanthe in Mark Adamo’s retelling of the greek classic Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess with Odyssey Opera + Boston Modern Opera Project with Gil Rose.
Pro Musica Portsmouth, Priscilla Stevens French, Conductor + Founding Artistic Director
Soprano soloist in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
Saturday April 5, 2025 @ 7:30 pm: Portsmouth, NH
Sunday April 6, 2025 @ 3 pm, Exeter, NH
Queen of the Night in The Little Orchestra Society’s family friendly Magic Flute.
October 26 & 27, 2024 at 11:30AM and 1:00pm @ Hunter College in NYC
Professor Treblemaker has grand designs for a whole opera in the middle of our concert... but will everything go as planned? Your little ones will love this fast-paced piece of theatre, brimming with Mozart's most cherished musical favorites, and a few more surprises!
Very excited to join Boston Lyric Opera for two programs in October:
Saturday October 19
11:30AM and 3:00PM: Family-friendly concert featuring Boston Lyric Opera Artists
Sunday October 20
3:00PM: A “Rising Waters, Rising Voices” concert and community panel featuring Boston Lyric Opera artists and climate experts, inspired by
The Seasons and Noah’s Flood.
About Fort Point Open Studios
Every fall the artists of Fort Point open their studios to the public. Join us for a weekend of art! Explore the historic waterfront warehouses that are home to painters, sculptors, ceramicists, jewelers, performance artists, printmakers, book artists, photographers,
and more. Meet local artists and craftspeople, and get a behind-the-scenes look at where Boston artists create their work. Find established artists and discover new emerging talents. Stroll, ponder, and browse. Buy original art from the people who make it.
Visitors to Open Studios can tour artists’ studios in 4 artist buildings in the Fort Point neighborhood, as well as galleries and pop-up exhibit venues. All buildings are in easy walking distance of each other. Free participatory art-making activities for all
ages will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Performance and special events are also part of this year’s Open Studios.
ONGOING PROJECT:
This Summer + Fall, I am honored to be working with pianist Joel Harder to record an album of songs by composer Tom Herman. We will work together and record the first half of the album in June and finish up the recording this fall. Stay tuned for clips and information on how to get the album when it is released!
I’m really excited to be giving a masterclass at my community’s music school!
2pm Masterclass for Youth
3:30 pm Masterclass for Adults
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
