(Credit: Courtesy of 360 of Opera) Teatro Grattacielo has announced that it will present Umberto Giordani’s “Fedora” on Oct. 3, 2020 at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York City. The opera, which was written by Arturo Colautti, will appear in New York for the first time since 1997 when it starred Mirella Freni at the Metropolitan Opera. This performance {…}
Teatro Grattacielo, in collaboration with the Bel Canto International Club, has announced its Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy, which is set to take place in New York City between April 13-19, 2020. For this first year, the company is championing seven Academy singers including soprano Anush Avetisyan, bass-baritone Michael Pitocchi, mezzo-soprano Maria Zoi, mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza, tenor Adam Goldstein, baritone Darian {…}
(Credit: Orlando Mendiola) There were plenty of F’s— High F’s, Low F’s, and Middle F’s—in composer/librettist’s Felix Jarrar’s “Mother Goose: A Drag Comic Chamber Opera,” and, I’m not speaking of notes on a staff; I’m talking about the f-word. Jarrar’s latest creation and collaboration with director Bea Goodwin was crass and vulgar; in short, I loved it. “Mother Goose” was {…}
(Credit: Orlando Mendiola) Once Upon a Time composer Felix Jarrar examined the life of Kiki de Montparnasse in “Tabula Rasa.” He delved into the dark depths of Edgar Allan Poe’s “House of Usher.” He brought Ebenezer Scrooge out of the darkness and into the light with “A Christmas Carol.” He examined the myth of “Apollo and Hermes.” But four operas {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar is set to present a holiday concert “Yuletide in a Younger World” on Dec. 8, 2019 at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The concert, which commences at 7 p.m. local time, will feature soprano Maria Eleni Zollo, mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza, baritone Wayne Arthur Paul, and Jarrar at the piano. The performance’s program will be made up {…}
It was a typical Monday at Port Authority. People hustling and bustling about trying to make their respective connections. Long lines outside bus terminals. General white noise echoing around the building. But around 5 p.m. something in the atmosphere changed. If you were walking around the terminal at that time, you might have started to hear “O soave fanciulla” from {…}
Voce di Meche is set to present “Around the World in Song,” on Sept. 30, 2019 at St. John’s in the Village in New York City. The concert is set to feature music from Argentina, China, Greece, Mexico, Kyrgzystan, Russian, South Korea, Spain, and Turkey with such singers as baritone Hyungjoo Eom, soprano Eugenia Forteza, soprano Idil Milliogullari, soprano Nina {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar has announced that his new opera “Mother Goose” will have its world premiere on Nov. 21, 2019 at Dixon Place in New York City. The opera will be directed by Bea Goodwin, who collaborated with Jarrar on “Tabula Rasa” and “A Christmas Carol” as librettist and director. The opera will star Allison Gish the title role alongside {…}
L’Institut Canadien d’Art Vocal Has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Leoncavallo’s “La Bohème.” The production will feature Alexei Kuznietsov as Marcello with Jay Lucas Chacon as Rodolfo. Playing Mimì will be Isabelle Freeman, while Musetta will be interpreted by Cloe SanAntonio. Eugenia Forteza will take on the role of Eufemia and Jan Van der Hooft will interpret {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar will feature a concert of his works on May 28, 2019 at the City Winery NYC. The concert, entitled “The Vocal Music of Felix Jarrar at The Loft,” will feature a number of artists that the composer has worked with in the past including Sara Lin Yoder, Eugenia Forteza, Rebecca Richardson, Petra Jarrar, Julia Taylor, Savannah Greene, {…}
“We want to make this music—these composers—part of the standard repertoire. Events like this shouldn’t be rare,” stated soprano Nicole Leone in a recent interview with OperaWire. Leone’s simple statement refers to the challenge of increasing the prominence of female composers in music programming, and she is doing her part. Together with Randi Marrazzo, her voice teacher from Temple University, {…}