Vira + Friends will present “Sweet Mystery” at the OPERA America National Opera Center on April 4, 2025. The showcase will honor the songs of Victor Herbert and women dramatists from the 1910s and 1920s. Performers include contralto Vira Slywotzky, tenor Todd Wilander, and pianist David Sytkowski. Slywotzky has performed with such companies as Seattle Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Chelsea Opera, {…}
The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! is presenting “Toyland Beckons” at Theatre at St. Jeans in New York City. The production, which opened on Feb. 20 and runs through the 22, explores the villainous plot against innocent lovers Bo Pee and Tom Tom. The work stars Alexa Devlin as Mother Goose, Matthew Wages as Silas Barnaby, Ryan Allais as Tom {…}
New York’s Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! will present “Cyrano de Bergerac” this April. The company will showcase the operetta on April 25 – 27, 2023. The work will star Matthew Wages as Cyrano, Hannah Holmes as Roxane, Ai Ra as Christian, Sarah Bleasdale, Joanie Brittingham, Keith Broughton, Andrew Buck, Josaphat Contreras, Jack Cotterell, Justin Daley, Jonathan Hare, Karen Mason, {…}
The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! is set to return with a production of “Mlle. Modiste” on April 26 and 27, 2022. The work, which will take place at The Theater at St. Jeans in New York City, will star Stephanie Bacastow, Sarah Bleasdale, Keith Broughton, Andrew Buck, Susan Case, Alexa Devlin, Charlotte Detrick, Vince Gover, Mariah Muehler, Jonathan Fox {…}
Beginning on January 17, 2021, Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! will present its “VHRP Live! Virtual Concert Series,” featuring archival footage from the company’s past seven seasons. The series will support company artists who have been out of work since the pandemic started in March of last year, as well as share the work of early Broadway composer Victor Herbert. {…}
Victor Herbert is best known for his operettas and his powerful impact on the musical theater scene. But he also wrote an opera that unfortunately never managed to get its rightful place in the repertory. “Natoma” is largely forgotten due to major feuds between Oscar Hammerstein I and the Metropolitan Opera Company. Now New York audiences will get a chance {…}
At the turn of the 20th century, Victor Herbert was widely regarded as a major composer making his mark with dozens and dozens of operettas. But the last century hasn’t always been kind to the Irish-American composer, many of his works getting largely ignored in the opera world. But for the last few years, the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! {…}
This October, Victor Herbert’s operetta “Eileen” will turn 100 years old. In anticipation of that celebration, and as a culmination of its third season, the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! (VHRPL) will present the work. The two performances on April 25 and 26 will also feature the first time that the New Victor Herbert Orchestra debuts. Starting From Scratch The {…}
