The World Premiere workshop performance of Joshua Brown’s SATB Song Cycle, Someplace Fun. A poetic and musical exploration of grief, perseverance, and love’s transferability.

Composer, Lyricist, Poet: Joshua Brown
Music Direction, Pianist: Kyle Walker
Stage Direction: Stephen M. Eckert

Remnant 1: Makayla McDonald, soprano
Remnant 2: Sydney Roslin, mezzo-soprano
Remnant 3: Brian Jeffers, tenor
Remnant 4: Brad Baron, bass

Presented by Opera Saratoga in partnership with
The Mansion of Saratoga, Rock City Falls

Sunday, June 12 @ 2pm
Sunday, June 12 @ 7pm

Opera Saratoga returns to The Mansion of Saratoga for A Hundred Years of Broadway, featuring musical theater favorites from the 1920s to present day. Under the musical direction of Broadway conductor Laura Bergquist, the program will also include a tribute to the late Stephen Sondheim.

2022 Opera Saratoga Young Artists:

Helena Colindres, Maria De Conzo, Jeremy Harr, Robert Hartfield, Brian Jeffers, Blake Jennings, Ryan Johnson, Nicole Koh, Nick Martorano, Morgan Mastrangelo, Eric McConnell, Raphaella Medina, Spencer Reichman, Whitney Robinson, Arieh Sacke, Chase Sanders, Turner Staton, Sable Strout , Louis Tiemann, Emily Triebold, Megan Warburton, Angela Yam

Presented by Opera Saratoga in partnership with The Charles R. Wood Theater, Glens Falls

Start the season with our annual Stars of Tomorrow concert – featuring 22 singers from around the country who have been selected from over 1,000 applicants to be members of Opera Saratoga’s prestigious Young Artist Program. One of the most popular concerts of the season, the program includes arias from over 20 different operas

2022 Opera Saratoga Young Artists:

Helena Colindres, Maria De Conzo, Jeremy Harr, Robert Hartfield, Brian Jeffers, Blake Jennings, Ryan Johnson, Nicole Koh, Nick Martorano, Morgan Mastrangelo, Eric McConnell, Raphaella Medina, Spencer Reichman, Whitney Robinson, Arieh Sacke, Chase Sanders, Turner Staton, Sable Strout , Louis Tiemann, Emily Triebold, Megan Warburton, Angela Yam

A special morning supporting OPERA America’s Women’s Opera Network and its Mentorship Program for the opera field’s most promising female professionals. Performances of new music by Lisa DeSpain and Kamala Sankaram as well as talks by industry professionals including Francesca Zambello.

Join the Schola Cantorum of St. Thomas More’s Church for Christmas Mass for Mozart’s 1777 Mass setting for organ, strings, SATB choir and SATB soloists!

Alan Montgomery, Music Director and Organist

The Collegiate Singers presents Handel’s Messiah! Choruses from each part of the work as well as Soprano, Countertenor, Tenor, and Bass-Baritone solos will be performed for one night only at Christ & St Stephen's Church.

Tickets: General: $25; Senior: $20; Student: $15

Martin Rutishauser, Music Director and Conductor

Hear the Chautauqua Symphony and Opera Young Artists join forces for a final concert under the baton of Stuart Chafetz.

“This performance shines the spotlight on the 16 Chautauqua Opera Studio Artists as they present a diverse program of opera scenes, fully staged and costumed on the stage of Norton Hall. “

https://chq.org/opera-calendar/eventdetail/19875/chautauqua-opera-studio-artists-opera-scenes-program

Music by John Corigliano; Libretto by William Hoffman
Sung in English

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Saturday, July 27, 2019 • 8:15 p.m.  

Peter Kazaras • Stage Director
Caitlin Lynch • Marie Antoinette
Daniel Belcher • Beaumarchais
Aleks Romano • Samira

“Marie Antoinette and her court are bored of the afterlife, and bitter about their deaths. The love-struck ghost of Beaumarchais believes he can change the queen’s untimely fate by using the power of art. He brings his beloved Figaro and company back to life in a new opera, but when Figaro refuses to stick to the script, Beaumarchais must enter his own story. Alternately hilarious and heart breaking, this grand opera buffa is one of America’s operatic masterpieces.”

Music by Gioachino Rossini; Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Sung in Italian

Friday, July 5, 2019 • 4 p.m.
Monday, July 8, 2019 • 7:30 p.m.

Kathleen Smith Belcher · Stage Director 
Daniel Belcher · Figaro
Aleks Romano · Rosina

“Young Count Almaviva (in disguise) is wooing the spirited and savvy Rosina, Dr. Bartolo’s young ward. Dr. Bartolo plans to marry Rosina himself, but Seville’s favorite trickster, Figaro, is on the scene to foil his schemes and help the young lovers unite, with hilarity and hijinks aplenty.”

Music by W.A. Mozart; Libretto by Vid Guerrerio, based on The Marriage of Figaro by Lorenzo da Ponte
Sung in English and Spanish

   
Sunday, June 30, 2019 • 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 7, 2019 • 7:00 p.m.
Sunday July 14, 2019 • 7:00 p.m.
Friday, July 26, 2019 • 4:00 p.m.

Eric Einhorn • Stage Director
Jorge Parodi • Music Director

Chautauqua Opera’s 90th season opens with “Vid Guerrerio’s contemporary multicultural adaptation of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Set in modern-day Beverly Hills. Hollywood elite Paul and Roxanne Conti (Count Almaviva and Rosina) are now married with a daughter, and Figaro and his soon-to-be-bride Susana are undocumented workers on their estate. Hailed by Opera News as “dynamic, thought-provoking, respectful, and, yes, hilarious,” Guerrerio’s English and Spanish libretto infuses Mozart’s masterpiece with humor, heart, and present-day discussions of race, class, and American identity.”

Enjoy the sunny ambiance of the Athenaeum Parlor and a view of the lake as you are serenaded with a variety of art songs ranging from the very old to the very new.

The first Afternoon of Song of the 2019 series will include a world premiere piece by Composer-in-Residence, Gilda Lyons, sung by Studio Artist, Brian Jeffers.

Featuring:

Allison Voth, pianist

Lindsey Chinn, soprano

Antona Yost, mezzo

Brian Jeffers, tenor

Check out this FREE preseason event, to hear arias from this years Young Artists!

https://chq.org/opera-calendar/monthcalendar/2019/6

Come join New Amsterdam Opera at the beautiful Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, for their annual performance of Handel’s Messiah (Part 1).

A special encore performance of Bernstein's TROUBLE IN TAHITI, performed at Salida High School under the baton of Scott Terrell.

"Aspen Opera Center singers serve up the jazzy tunes of Bernstein’s one-act opera about 1950s domestic turmoil. Paired with Charlie Chaplin's A Dog's Life. Concert performance."

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Come see Chaplin's A DOG'S LIFE with Timothy Brock's score restoration and celebrate Bernstein's Centennial with TROUBLE IN TAHITI with new orchestrations by Garth Edwin Sunderland all conducted by Maestro Scott Terrell!!

Tickets at http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/what-a-movie-bernsteins-trouble-in-tahiti/

"A love triangle involving the King of Castile, Alfonso XI, his mistress ('the favourite') Leonora, and her lover Fernando, the story unfolds against the background of the Moorish invasions of Spain and power struggles between church and state."

Come see New Amsterdam Opera's concert production of Donizetti's great drama!  Performed with full orchestra and chorus and under the baton of New Amsterdam Opera's founder and Artistic Director, Keith Chambers.

Winners from the Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota-Manitoba Districts will perform and compete for a chance to advance to the Metropolitan Opera National Council Semi-Finals in New York City.

Judges will be: Ed Berkely (The Juilliard School, Aspen Opera Center), Mark Morash (San Francisco Opera, Santa Barbara Opera, Merola Opera Program), and Galetha Nichols (Executive Director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions)

Singers will perform with collaborative pianist: Mary Jo Gothmann

Scenes from Jonathan Dawe's 2016 opera, about the 2008 Wall Street crash will be performed as a Showcase for interested investors for an upcoming revival of the full work.  Open to the public! Performed by the premiere's Original Complete Cast!

Come hear performers from Bronx Opera Company's current and former seasons come together to sing Handel's classic Messiah.  The concert will include full orchestra by The Orchestra of the Bronx, conducted by Michael Spierman.

"We are creating this show in response to the overwhelming divide that has been present in our country over the past few months. We, as artists and leaders, feel the need to make works of art that are relevant, that get people thinking, that bring people together. We are crafting a program that does just that, through the transformative power of art song."

-Will Berman of the Patchwork Project

This recital will feature songs by American composers such as Ned Rorem, Aaron Copland, Ricky Ian Gordon, Libby Larsen, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives and more.  Proceeds will This performance will benefit the American Brain Tumor Association, Riverkeeper, and Southern Poverty Law Center.