MasterVoices Announces 2026-27 Season Featuring Erin Morley, Jakub Józef Orliński

MasterVoices has announced its 2026-27 season, the ensemble’s 85th anniversary year. First up is a Händel Celebration at Carnegie Hall featuring soprano Erin Morley and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński. The program will draw from “Samson,” “Theodora,” “Semele,” “Giulio Cesare,” and additional works, concluding with an audience singalong of the Hallelujah Chorus from “Messiah.” Ted Sperling conducts. Performance Date: Dec. 15, {…}

Apr 16, 2026

Perelman Performing Arts Center Unveils 2026-27 Season

(Photo credit: Iwan Baan) The Perelman Performing Arts Center announces its 2026-27 lineup. This article only features classical vocal concerts. First up is the song cycle, “The Puerto Rico Experiment” by Angélica Négron with Balún and Roomful of Teeth. This is a Democracy Cycle world premiere song cycle commission. Performance Dates: January 16-23, 2027 Timothy Long presents the “North American Indigenous {…}

Jan 20, 2026

MasterVoices to Present ‘Sins & Grace’ with Mikaela Bennett & Justin Austin

MasterVoices is set to perform “Sins and Grace,” including the world premiere of the song cycle “SEVEN: A Cycle of Sins,” based on the seven deadly sins, on March 23 and 24, 2026. The concerts will be held Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Conceived by Ted Sperling and commissioned by MasterVoices as a companion piece to Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem {…}

Aug 27, 2025

MasterVoices Unveils 2025-26 Season

MasterVoices has unveiled its 2025-26 season. The season opens with “ARCH” at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The installation opera by Kaleider will be directed by Seth Honnor. The opera will touch “audiences with themes of death, renewal, and hope, ARCH points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create: language, economies, architectures, democracies – and, inevitably, to the impact {…}

Feb 6, 2025

MasterVoices 2025 Review: Blind Injustice

(Credit Photo: Erin Baiano) Scott Davenport Richards and David Cote’s “Blind Injustice” came to New York City this past week, taking the stage of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two performances on Feb. 3 and 4 presented by MasterVoices. The work follows the Ohio Innocence Project’s efforts to overturn the convictions of six men, women, and teens who were wrongly {…}

Oct 19, 2024

MasterVoices Launches New Podcast

MasterVoices has launched a podcast series in anticipation of its 2024-25 season-opening performance of “Strike Up the Band.” The recently-released series features three episodes that explore the different aspects of the Gershwin piece. The episodes are hosted by writer, linguist, and musical theater aficionado John McWhorter and feature interviews with Ted Sperling and Laurence Malson on the making of the {…}

Sep 25, 2024

MasterVoices to Present ‘Strike Up the Band’

MasterVoices opens its 2024-25 season with a concert staging of “Strike Up the Band,” with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The work will be performed on Oct. 29 at Carnegie Hall. Ted Sperling leads the 120–member MasterVoices Chorus and the MasterVoices Orchestra with soloists Shereen Ahmed, Phillip Attmore, Victoria Clark, Lissa deGuzman, Claybourne Elder, Christopher Fitzgerald, {…}

Aug 13, 2024

Davenport Richards, Gershwin, Bach Headline MasterVoices 2024-25 Season

MasterVoices has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is “Strike Up the Band” by George and Ira Gershwin. Ted Sperling conducts and directs the production. Tracy Christensen is the costume designer for the work, which is being presented in New York for the first time since 1998. Performance Date: Oct. 29, 2024 Then comes Scott Davenport Richards and David Cote’s {…}

Feb 13, 2024

MasterVoices Joins Forces With ‘To My Arms / Restore’ This March

MasterVoices is set to present the New York City premiere of “To My Arms / Restore” at the NYU Skirball on March 22 & 23, 2024. The performance will be led by choreographer Doug Varone and his company Doug Varone and Dancers and features eight dancers. Additionally, there will be five vocal soloists performing arias from such Händel works as {…}

May 13, 2023

MasterVoices Announces 2023-24 Season

MasterVoices has announced its 2023-24 Season. Here are the operatic selections of the season. “The Grapes of Wrath” by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie based on John Steinbeck’s Novel will be presented in a concert performance. The performance will be held at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke and conductor Ted Sperling. The work premiered in 2007 {…}

Mar 22, 2023

MasterVoices Closes Season with ‘Iolanthe’

MasterVoices concludes its 2022-23 season with a concert staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe.” The performance, which is set to take place on May 3 at Carnegie Hall, will be directed and conducted by Ted Sperling. The concert performance will feature the 120–member MasterVoices chorus and orchestra with Tony Award-nominated veteran David Garrison, Christine Ebersole, Shereen Ahmed, Schyler Vargas, and {…}

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