Caramoor has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Vocal group Trio Mediaeval will present a performance featuring numerous folk and traditional songs. The ensemble is joined by Catalina Vicens on the organetto. Performance Date: Dec. 8, 2024 “Beginner’s Luck: The Artist’s Journey” will feature the Schwab Vocal Rising Artists under artistic director Steven {…}
(Photo credit: ©Julien Gazeau) This summer, Les Arts Florissants tours its semi-stage production of Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” throughout North America. William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants and Le Jardin des Voix on the tour. Soloists include soprano Paulina Francisco, mezzo-sopranos Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, and Juliette Mey, tenor Ilja Aksionov and Rodrigo Carreto, baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson, and bass-baritone Benjamin {…}
Caramoor has announced its summer 2024 season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances on offer. Kicking things off is a Pride Month celebration with tenor Jasmine Rice LaBeija, presented in collaboration with The LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center. Performance Date: June 13, 2024 Roomful of Teeth will present works by Caroline Shaw, Angelica Negrón, Peter Shin, William Brittelle, and {…}
Caramoor maintains its dedication to innovative programming with it’s 2023-2024 season, showcasing a diverse selection of genres and exceptional artists. The Emmet Cohen Trio is joined at Caramoor by American-Armenian vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan, a frequent collaborator who has become a leading voice in American straight-ahead jazz. Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center. Performance Date: Sept. 29. 2023 Carole {…}
Caramoor has announced its 2023 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Audra McDonald will open the festival with a Gala alongside the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Andy Einhorn. Performance Date: June 17, 2023 Boston Early Music Festival will present Francesca Caccini’s “La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina” with Paul O’Dette {…}
(Credit: John C Hawthorne) Caramoor is set to present The Crossing in a socially distanced performance on July 3, 2021. The showcase, entitled “The Forest,” features 24 singers situated around the Caramoor grounds while audience members walk through the soundscape and landscape. The work’s libretto features texts from Scott Russell Sanders’ essay “Mind in the Forest.” Music was composed by {…}
WQXR, New York City’s only all-classical radio station, announced four platforms to aid the city’s creative community and sustain the arts culture for which The Big Apple is famous. The station’s multi-pronged approach named STAR (Salutes The ARts) represents the first initiative led by WQXR’s new Chief Content Officer and Senior Vice President, Ed Yim. STAR comprises four initiatives: the {…}
On July 9, the Caramoor Festival will present a Livestream event entitled “Listening to Tom-Tom.” The event will be an in-depth exploration of Shirley Graham Du Bois’ opera, “Tom-Tom,” the first opera written and staged by an African American woman. The work has not been produced since its initial run in 1932 and all that survives of the score is {…}
The New York Festival of Song will team up with Caramoor’s Vocal Rising Stars to present “The Art of Pleasure” on March 17, 2020 at the Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City. The concert will feature soprano Elaine Daiber, mezzo-soprano Siena Licht Miller, tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, baritone Thomas West, and pianist Shawn Chang performing repertory by {…}
Sherezade Panthaki is one of today’s most recognized Baroque singers. An acknowledged star in the early-music field, she has performed with some of the most prestigious Baroque and early period orchestras, as well as with such prominent conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Mark Morris, Nicholas Kraemer, Matthew Halls, Paul Agnew, and Lawrence Cummings. This weekend, Sherezade Panthaki returns to {…}
The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has announced its 2019 summer season, which will feature some of the greatest vocal performers in the world. While the program includes a plethora of instrumental music and performances, our focus for the purposes of this article will be to highlight singers and any opera productions. First up will be “Versaille: Portrait {…}