(Credit: Enrique Pastor) Voice Afire will present “The Spanish Connection — Music of the Americas,” a recital featuring tenor José Heredia, mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna, and pianist Amber Scherer, this March. The program pairs the folk-inflected modernist works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera with songs by Canadian-American composer Ray Luedeke set to the love poetry of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, drawn {…}
Mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna and pianist Walter Aparicio will present “Sendero Mágico (Magic Path),” on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at the David Greer Recital Hall of the Bloomingdale School of Music in New York. The recital kicks off at 3 p.m. and offers a musical and personal journey through works for piano and voice by composers from Spain, Latin America, and {…}
North / South Consonance will present “From Barcelona to New York” on March 27, 2025, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. The showcase, which kicks off at 8 p.m. local time, will feature mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna performing alongside pianists Donna Weng Friedman and Álvar Rubio-Comino as well as narrator Diana Solomon-Glover and the North / South Consonance Orchestra under {…}
North/South Consonance, Inc. is set to celebrate the holiday season on Dec. 3 at 8 pm. The concert will feature vocal and instrumental music inspired by spiritual texts and will be held at the National Opera Center with no admission fee. The program will feature recent works by Wallace De Pue, Jee Seo, Max Lifchitz, and Joseph Santo as performed {…}
The New York Opera Society presents the solo recital “The Runaways” performed by American mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna and Spanish pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo. “The Runaways” showcases works by living composers from Spain, who came to New York City to expand their creative endeavors. These émigrés Spanish composers from three generations featured on the program are Ricardo Llorca, Sonia Megias, and Octavio {…}
Sergei Producciones Líricas, Divaria Productions, and the City Council of Logroño are teaming up to present a unique new adaptation of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on June 8, 2022. The iconic work will be adapted for chamber orchestra and chorus by conductor and composer Pedro Halffter. “Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, also known as ‘Chorale,’ is the {…}
The history of Italian opera is indissociable from Manuel Garcia and his children who have shone in the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Balfe, and Gounod to name but a few. They established themselves as icons of the 19th century whose culture and societal life the sisters Maria, known as La Malibran, and Pauline, wife of Louis Viardot, dominated like {…}
This weekend is packed with so much opera that we had to make an exception and add in one extra recommendation for fans around North America. Don Giovanni – Bare Opera, New York Malena Dayen is set to bring a unique angle to Mozart and Da Ponte’s classic, using video cameras attached to performers that will allow unique perspectives of {…}
(Credit: Erik Bagger) Once upon a time, zarzuela had a prominent history in New York City. Through the efforts of René Buch at Repertorio Español and Silvia Brito’s efforts at Teatro Thalia in the 1980s, as welll as other performances in the late 90’s and early 2000s, zarzuela was part of the cultural life in the big city. But as {…}
The Teatro Grattacielo will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with a gala performance featuring three unique works by Italian composers. The performance, set for Sept. 28, 2019 at the Gerald Lynch Theater, will feature the first act from Leoncavallo’s “La Bohème,” Act two from Catalani’s “Loreley,” and the third act from Respighi’s “Sleeping Beauty.” The performance will be conducted by {…}
On December 8, 2018, audiences gathered in St. Brigid – Saint Emeric Church to hear the story of Christ birth in a slightly different way: through opera. “El Rey Nacio,” by composer Jose Luis Gonzalez Moya, bills itself as the “first opera composed about the birth of Jesus,” and this structure serves the miraculous nature of the narrative in highly {…}