The Giulio Gari Foundation is set to hold its annual benefit gala on Sunday, Oct. 21 honoring three opera singers. The foundation will honor opera stars Carol Vaness, a lirico-soprano known for her Mozart operatic roles and for her work at the Metropolitan Opera, dramatic soprano Sharon Sweet, known for her Verdi and Wagner roles, and Italian tenor Guiseppe Filianoti. The gala {…}
Sharon Sweet was born on August 16, 1951, in New York City. Her father was a tenor who had stopped his career after serving in World War II. She would start her musical studies as a pianist though eventually, she would wind up teaching music in a public school. She would win the Metropolitan Opera auditions and then started studying {…}
Sharon Sweet and Krassimira Stoyanova. Two sopranos born on August 16 with rather different careers. The former was a well-known American dramatic soprano who took on a wide range of Italian and German repertoire, most prominently singing operas by Wagner and Verdi. The latter, a Bulgarian with a far lighter voice, has slowly dug into that very same dramatic repertoire, {…}
The New York Opera Fest and the Martina Arroyo Foundation will continue their joint lecture series on June 7 with a master class by soprano Sharon Sweet with members of the foundation’s Prelude to Performance young artist program. Sweet of course made a name for herself at the Metropolitan Opera. In all, she did 88 performances with the company, her first coming {…}
The Martina Arroyo Foundation has announced its operatic prelude to performance selections and master series programs for the summer. The Prelude to Performance will feature Bizet’s “Carmen” starring Emily Righter in the title role, Ben Werley, a young artist with Florida Grand Opera, as Don José, and Brian Major as Escamillo. Opera Tampa’s Daniel Lipton conducts. The following opera will be a {…}