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Opera in NY: MUSIC AS THE MESSAGE – FALL IN ❤️ WITH LOVE!

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Opera in NY: MUSIC AS THE MESSAGE – FALL IN ❤️ WITH LOVE!

Season Two Premiere of Adrienne Danrich’s Music as the Message

New Interactive Virtual Performance on Sunday, November 14th at 4 pm

By the American Opera Project and Opera On Tap, in association with Broadway Presbyterian Church.

Music as the message - Fall in love with love on Sun, Nov 14 at 4 pm
Music as the Message / Courtesy of the American Opera Project

Join the American Opera Project and Opera On Tap for the Season Two premiere of Adrienne Danrich’s Music as the Message, reimagined as an interactive, free virtual performance, available to all. Goodwill offerings are accepted and donors at the $30 level or above may receive a personal invitation to join members of the community in the live studio audience, as space allows. Together, let us usher in this season of renewal, reopening and reflection, celebrating the greatest four letter word ever created — LOVE!

Joining Danrich and Music as the Message Ensemble (Victoria A. Davis, Patrice P. Eaton, Cameo Humes, Scott Tomlinson) will be guest artists Marsha Thompson, Blythe Gaissert, Andrew Garland, James Moore, Violetta Zabbi, Brian Shankar Adler, Dwight Howard, Peter Siedenberg, and Broadway Presbyterian pastor, Chris Shelton. The episode will also see the premiere of the newly-commissioned song Muse of Memory by Adrienne Danrich and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec (Sanctuary Road, The Shining).

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Opera in NY: New Opera Scenes by Emerging Composers

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Opera in NY: New Opera Scenes by Emerging Composers

NEW OPERA SCENES CREATED IN THE 2019-2021 COMPOSERS & THE VOICE PROGRAM

New Opera Scenes by Emerging Composers
Image courtesy of C&V/American Opera Project

This September, The American Opera Project (AOP) kicks off its 33rd season with premiere music from five distinctive new operas at an outdoor concert in its home neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. C&V SCENE AND HEARD showcases opera scenes from five emerging composers  – Matt Frey, Alaina Ferris, Michael Lanci, Mary Prescott, and Jessica Rudman – who created the works during their fellowships in AOP’s opera writing program Composers & the Voice (C&V). The biannual event is a rare look at the creative process in action, hosted by C&V Artistic Director Steven Osgood.

The scenes will be performed by C&V’s resident opera singers Jasmine Muhammad (lyric soprano, Metropolitan Opera), Timothy Stoddard (tenor, Bare Opera), Justine Aronson (coloratura soprano, Bang on a Can Summer Festival), and Mario Diaz-Moresco (baritone, Glimmerglass Opera), as well as guest artists Nina Riley (soprano, Bronx Opera), Victoria Davis (soprano, Washington National Opera), Blythe Gaissert (mezzo-soprano, Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera), and Cáitlín Burke (mezzo-soprano, Wolf Trap Opera).

 

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Date: SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 | 3pm EDT
Venue: Tent next to the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY
www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park

Tickets: General admission tickets are available via Eventbrite for $25

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/composers-the-voice-scene-and-heard-tickets-168150004189

Health and Safety Protocols

All audience members will be required to show proof of full vaccination (your final dose was administered at least 14 days before the performance date). Masks are optional. At check-in, audience members will be required to show proof of full vaccination using either the NEW YORK STATE EXCELSIOR PASS or a hard copy/photo of your vaccination card alongside a form of ID. Performers will be distanced but unmasked.
https://www.aopopera.org/cvscenes21
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/composers-the-voice-scene-and-heard-tickets-168150004189

 

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New York Opera Fest 2021: Virtual Premieres, Walking Tours, Podcasts

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New York Opera Fest 2021 : Virtual Premieres, Walking Tours, Podcasts

Sixth Annual New York Opera Fest 2021: June-July-August

Official logo for NYOF 2021Hailed as “a remarkably strong and diverse exploration of everything opera can be in the city (The New York Times),” the New York Opera Fest celebrates its sixth season with both virtual and in-person performances by 20+ local, New York City-based opera companies. Presented by the New York Opera Alliance, with support from OPERA America, this annual festival runs for two months May-June 2021 starting with a special kick-off event April 29th. For a complete list of events, fans can turn to NYoperafest.com.

 

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FESTIVAL DETAILS

(preliminary schedule in chronological order | subject to change)

*world premiere 

WHEN: May 1-June 30, 2021 except when listed with specific dates

WHERE: Streaming online on companies’ respective digital platforms

HOW: Tickets range from FREE-$60. Tickets may be purchased by contacting NYOA at newyorkoperafest.org. Tickets go on sale April 1, 2021.

Regina Opera Company 

May 1 – June 30, 2021

Broadcast: Recorded at the company’s Sunset Park theater

Tickets: FREE

Regina Opera presents their “2021 Spring Concert.” This is a half-hour video concert (available to stream for two months) of popular opera arias and songs featuring four of Regina Opera’s soloists, Lisa Bryce, soprano; Galina Ivannikova, mezzo-soprano; Lindell Carter and Hyunho Cho, tenors; accompanied by pianist Dmitry Glivinskiy, recorded in Sunset Park theater on December 13, 2020.  Among the selections are arias by Puccini, Verdi, and Massenet.

Hunter Opera Theater

May 1 – June 30, 2021

Broadcast: Pre-recorded

Tickets: FREE

Hunter Opera Theater presents the Richard Burke Pocket Opera at Hunter College. This year’s operas are: The Taxi Driver, libretto and music by Joe Young, The Blue Bird Opera: The Pursuit of Happiness, libretto and music by Alyssa Regent, Panic Room, libretto and music by Deshawn Withers, and Prince Danila Govorila, music by Matthew Sandahl, with a libretto by Alkiviades Meimaris.

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New York Opera Fest 2021: Free Classical Music with Opera Lafayette

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New York Opera Fest 2021: Free Classical Music with Opera Lafayette

New Free Event Added: Celebrate World Music Day with Opera Lafayette 

Sunday, June 20, 2021, 8:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m. EST

Opera Lafayette introduces Fête de la Musique – 12 hours of FREE original classical performances online Sunday, June 20, 2021. Registration required at https://operalafayette.org
Starting from 8 AM until 8 PM, Opera Lafayette will feature music from Bach, Forqueray, and Roussel, behind-the-scenes views into the creation of a production, family-friendly musical programming, as well as performances from Mezzo-Soprano Caitlin Hulcup, Tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Harpsichordist Justin Taylor, full productions, concert highlights, and many more! We’ll virtually travel across the world to historic Edvard Grieg house in Leipzig, Washington D.C.’s Tregaron Conservancy,  Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris, and more. What began as a singular Fête de la Musique in Paris in 1982, has expanded to millions of musicians participating from more than 120 countries on five continents. Each year on the first day of summer, communities around the world come together to celebrate music with free outdoor concerts.
Fete de la Musique is part of the New York Opera Fest 2021.

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Art in NYC: Felix Feneon – the Anarchist and the Avant-Garde at MoMA

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Art in NYC: Felix Feneon – the Anarchist and the Avant-Garde at MoMA

“Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond” at MoMA is the first exhibition devoted to the influential French art critic, editor, publisher, dealer, and collector.

On view through January 2, 2021

Paul Signac. Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon
Paul Signac. Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller, 1991. Photo by Paige Knight. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

In this abnormal time, a museum visit takes on a new meaning. It is both a return to normal life as we remember it and an affirmation of the unchanged desire to explore and experience art. A visit to MoMA to see the exhibit dedicated to Felix Feneon is exactly that.

Well researched and painstakingly laid out, the show brings familiar works by such giants of the late 19th-century art scene as Seurat, Signac, Vuillard, Matisse, Modigliani and the non-Western art together following the superb taste and visionary aesthetics of the French art critic and collector Felix Feneon.  Credited with coining the term Neo-Impressionism, he had recognized the significance of pointillism and other scientifically ordered art movements and tirelessly promoted them to the public. His fascination with non-Western art and sculpture propelled the interest in the works made in Africa and Oceania. The mesmerizing figurines from the Musee d’Orsay, Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, and private collections stun the viewers by the power and exquisite mastery of execution.

Attributed to the Master of Bouaflé (Guro, Côte d’Ivoire). Heddle pulley.
Attributed to the Master of Bouaflé (Guro, Côte d’Ivoire). Heddle pulley. Nineteenth century. Wood and pigment. Fondation Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva. © Fondation Musée Barbier-Mueller, photo studio Ferrazzini-Bouchet

The exhibit comes with an intriguing story of Feneon’s support and participation in the Anarchist movement while working at the Ministry of War. The episode of his imprisonment and a consequent trial are described in the show through the documents, photographs, and testimonies. Excerpts from his writing and publications are full of wit and elegance while the portraits of him by Valloton and Signac present a Mephistopheles-like figure.

The show tells the life story of a visionary who influenced the perception of art by his contemporaries and bravely advanced the Neo-Impressionists and Futurists. Indulge yourself in art and enjoy the show!

 

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