Helios Opera’s second project to emerge from their Modular Opera Project (MOP) is Felix Jarrar and B.L. Foxley’s monodrama “Stardust.” The world premiere is scheduled for December 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET, with affinity groups co-hosting future screenings. The creatives behind “Stardust” form an entirely BIPOC team. Using a variety of media and musical forms, “Stardust” explores issues of racial {…}
One brand new opera with three endings. A 20th-century work from a noted Czech composer. Two gala performances. A recital of new songs. A Shakespeare / Verdi / Ring Mashup. Beethoven. And three Italian operas with some of opera’s biggest stars for those looking for more standard repertory. That eclectic list comprises our top 10 operas to stream this week. {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar and librettist Bea Goodwin are set to take audiences behind the scenes of their latest collaboration “Hindsight: Behind the Lens” on Sept. 30, 2020. The Zoom event, which kicks off at 8 p.m., will preview the duo’s new crime opera which focuses on the events leading up to the Leopold and Loeb trial. Audiences will get a {…}
Award-winning composer Felix Jarrar kicks off fall 2020 with “Treasure Chest: A Social Distancing Salon.” The virtual recital will stream on Jarrar’s YouTube channel on Sunday, October 18, at 5:00 p.m. ET. “Treasure Chest” features soprano Kirsten Kunkle performing art songs written by Jarrar with text by librettist/lyricist Bea Goodwin. Included in the program is the premiere of the soprano {…}
Composer and pianist Felix Jarrar will to present “Nurturing Nature During Quarantine: a social distancing salon” on May 31, 2020 at 5 p.m. EDT. The virtual recital will feature sopranos Marina Harris and Julia Taylor as well as mezzo-soprano Allison Gish performing alongside Jarrar. The performance will feature standard operatic and art song repertory as well as the premiere of {…}
(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 {…}
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 {…}
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, {…}
Composer Felix Jarrar will showcase “The Music of Burton Hatheway” to kick off his 2019 concert schedule. The composer of the jazz opera “Tabula Rasa” and the forthcoming cantata “The Unsleeping Ones (his first),” will perform at the Jesse Lee United Methodist Church on Jan. 6, 2019 in a concert sponsored by Fairfield County’s The Wednesday Afternoon Music Club. The {…}