On Site Opera Announces Immersive 2020-21 Season
By Logan MartellOn Site Opera has announced the programming for its upcoming 2020-21 season, featuring several new productions and broadcasts of older works.
Opening the season in November will be “The Beauty that Still Remains: Diaries in Song.” This new work incorporates music and text from three different works: Janacek’s “The Diary of the One Who Vanished,” Dominick Argento’s and Virginia Woolf’s “From The Diary of Virginia Woolf,” and Juliana Hall and Anne Frank’s “A World Turned Upside Down.”
Ticket holders for this event will receive keepsake diaries in the mail which contain texts, articles, program notes, and more to complete the experience.
Originally premiering in 2021, On Site Opera’s “The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse,” will receive an encore airing on BronxNet TV in celebration of World Opera Day on October 25, 2020.
On November 12, the company will present a cabaret-style concert with baritone Mario Diaz-Moresco and pianist Spencey Myer, which will be streamed through the Greenwich Public Library.
The company has also announced it will be partnering with Baldwin Wallace University to commission a series of micro-operas from established composers and librettists, to be performed by student and emerging artists in the Spring.
The company’s season ends in May, with the immersive new work “The Road We Came,” which will allow listeners to take a self-guided, musical tour that explores the composers, musicians, and locations which have played prominent roles in the Black culture of New York City. The work will include filmed musical performances and spoken narration as listeners walk through Harlem, upper midtown, and lower Manhattan. Acclaimed baritone Kenneth Overton will be the featured soloist.
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