Star Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava performed a recital program featuring art song compositions by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Prokofiev sprinkled with a dramatic dash of Donizetti and Verdi on Nov. 1, 2019 at Carnegie Hall. Her appearance was not without controversy. To get to the main entrance, recital-goers needed to push past Pro-Ukrainian activists lining the sidewalk and holding placards in {…}
MasterVoices will open its 2019-20 season next month with a concert version of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” a “musical take on a presidential re-election gone haywire.” The 1933 sequel to “Of Thee I Sing” continues the story of populist U.S. President John P. Wintergreen, who is voted out of office and stages a coup in an {…}
Musica Sacra, New York’s longest continuously performing professional chorus under the direction of Kent Tritle, has announced its 2019-20 season. The season will open with the a cappella concert “Music for a Gothic Space” at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The performance, preceded by a recital by the Newark Boys Chorus, will feature Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame,” the {…}
Hibla Gerzmava is set to return to Carnegie Hall for a recital. The acclaimed Russian soprano will return to the concert with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina. The recital is part of a six-month, seven-city world tour with stops in Moscow, St. Petersburg, New York, Paris, London, Tel Aviv, and Toronto with a program that will include art songs by such Russian {…}
Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include several world premieres. Dan Henriksson and Donald Nally will direct the choral-theatre work “Aniara: fragments of time and space,” presented by Finnish National Opera at Almi Hall in Helsinki. The Crossing will be joined by Klockriketeatern, with featured performers Matti Raita and Carl Alm. Performance Dates: Sept. 16 {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York has revealed details of its upcoming 147th season, which will include two world premieres. The season will kick off with “Rachmaninoff and Duruflé” at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The program will include excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, an “a cappella work of remarkable spirituality,” along with Duruflé’s Requiem. Featured vocalists will include contralto Kirsten {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will be featured in concert with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America at Carnegie Hall early next month. The concert is part of a series celebrating extraordinary teen classical and jazz musicians. NYO-USA is comprised of musicians aged 16-19, selected through a rigorous audition process. Members participate in an intensive three-week {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) American Symphony Orchestra has announced its expanded 2019-20 season, which includes concerts at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Symphony Space. For the purposes of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. The season will kick off with Edward Elgar’s oratorio “The Kingdom” at Carnegie Hall, which will feature soprano Janai Brugger, mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani, tenor {…}
On June 4, the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage of Carnegie Hall was host to a musical feast, as performed by The MET Orchestra under the baton of its new conductor and music director, Yannick Nezet-Seguin. The evening’s program was comprised of works from French composers Debussy, Ravel, and Dutilleux, all of which allowed for an abundance of expression. With guest star {…}
“NOOMA,” a new opera for babies, is set for its world premiere at Carnegie Hall on Friday and Saturday, April 26-27 at 11:15 a.m. The work, which was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Opera, and Minnesota Opera, was composed specifically for babies and features parachutes. There will be four performances throughout this particular run. The work was designed {…}
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is set to return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for her annual much-anticipated series of master classes for young professional opera singers. This year, soprano Alexandra Nowakowski, mezzo-soprano Maya Amir, countertenor Keymon Murrah, and tenor Aaron Crouch were selected to participate in the master classes. They will be accompanied by pianist Justina Lee and Shannon McGinnis. The master classes will {…}