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Laquita Mitchell, Jorell Williams, Blythe Gaissert Headline Brooklyn Art Song Society’s 2021-22 Season

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2021-22 season. The season kicks off with a performance of selections from Wolf’s “Mörike Liederbuch.” The showcase will feature Amy Owens, Sarah Nelson Craft, Daniel McGrew, and Tyler Duncan. Spencer Myer and Erika Switzer will perform at the piano. Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2021 Streaming Date: Oct. 18, 2021 “Remembering” will feature {…}

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Isabel Leonard, Sasha Cooke, Blythe Gaissert Headline American Opera Project’s ‘Living Room Music’ Series

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The American Opera Project has announced a new concert series entitled “Living Room Music.” The event will kick off with “A Grateful Embrace,” a Mother’s Day special hosted by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert, pianist Daniel Gortler, and baritone Jorell Williams. Other performers include Maile Okamura, Colin Jacobsen, and Isabel Santiago. Performance Date: May 10, 2020 Mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert, {…}

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Blythe Gaissert & Sara Gartland To Star in San Diego Opera’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’

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San Diego Opera is set to present “Hansel and Gretel” this February. The opera will run for four performances between Feb. 8-16 with mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert as Hansel and soprano Sara Gartland as Gretel. Gaissert appeared with the company in 2017’s “As One,” while Gartland was Musetta in the company’s 2015 production of “La Bohème.” Baritone Malcolm MacKenzie will appear {…}

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CD Review: Navona Records’ ‘All is Mere Breath’

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“Havel havalim, hakol hevel” from Kohelet 1:2 is commonly translated as “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,” or equally pessimistic, “All is futile.” Yet “hevel” can also mean “vapor” or “mist,” and by extension “breath.” It dons an existential facet which blends with the divine or, in other words, the life force which God instills in Creation. To Nicholas Weininger {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society 2023-24 Review: Circles II – The Wagnerians

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Photo credit: Catherine Hancock Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) continued its 14th season with “Circles II: The Wagnerians” on Friday, November 3rd, 2023, at the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. OperaWire covered its season opener, “Circles I: Clara, Robert & Johannes,” last month and discovered how art song continues to engage listeners from a place of uninhibited curiosity and what {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to present ‘Circles II: The Wagnerians’

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Brooklyn Art Song Society will continue its season on Nov 3, 2023 at the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn with “Circles II: The Wagnerians.” The concert, which is curated by Artistic Director Michael Brofman, will pair Wagner’s only song cycle, Wesendonck-Lieder, with works by Ernest Chausson, Henri Duparc, and Hugo Wolf. The concert will include Duparc’s “La Vague et la {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society Unveils 2023-24 Season

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2023-24 season. First up is “Circles I: Clara, Robert, and Johannes” which features works by Robert Schumman, Brahms, and Clara Schumann. Performers include Elisabeth Marshall, Katherine Lerner, Gregory Feldmann, Brian Mextorf, Micchael Brofman, and Joel Harder. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2023 “The Wagnerians” will feature music by Chausson, Duparc, Wagner, and Wolf as {…}

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OPERA America Announces Six Recipients of Next Stage Grants Program 2023

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OPERA America has announced the six recipients of its Next Stage Grants program. In sum, the grants total $200,000. Among the winners are Chicago Opera Theater’s production of “Book of Mountains and Seas” by Huang Ruo; Los Angeles Opera’s “Highway 1, USA” by William Grant Still and Verna Arvey; New Orleans Opera’s “Blue” by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson; Opera {…}

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OPERA America Announces 2023 Winner of Campbell Opera Librettist Prize

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OPERA American has announced that Deborah Brevoort has won the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. She will take home $7,000 for creative development and career advancement. Brevoort is an alum of American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program and has written librettos for nine operas including “The Knock,” Embedded,” “Steal a Pencil for Me,” and “Dinner 4 3.” Her works have {…}