Laura Schwendinger’s New Opera to Premiere at the 2026 Cutting Edge Concerts Season

Cutting Edge Concerts announces its 2026 season. This article only features opera-related concerts. Laura Schwendinger’s opera “Margaret in Love and War” makes its world premiere in a semi-staged production. Marnie Breckenridge stars as Margaret Fuller, a 19th century American journalist and women’s rights advocate. Chris Alden directs. Eiki Isomura conducts. Performance Date: April 28, 2026 “Whistling Hens” features soprano Jennifer {…}

Sep 8, 2025

Cutting Edge Concerts to Present ‘Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Greenwich Village Poets’

Cutting Edge Concerts will present “Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Greenwich Village Poets” on Sept. 24, 2025 at The Salmagundi Club in New York City. The showcase will feature works by William Kentner Anderson, Victoria Bond, Laura Schwendinger, and Nehemiah Luckett. Vocal soloists include soprano Sharon Harms, baritone Michael Kelly, soprano Zoe Allen, and baritone Nehemiah Luckett. The {…}

Oct 4, 2024

Victoria Bond’s Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Announces October 2024 Showcase

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will present a special concert on Oct. 9, 2024. The showcase will feature arias from Victoria Bond’s “Mrs. President” about the first woman to run for president 150 years ago. The showcase will feature soprano Amy Justman and pianist Mila Henry. Also on the program is Bond’s “Four Strings Around the World” featuring violinist {…}

Aug 26, 2024

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival Unveils Two Concerts for Fall 2024

(Image Courtesy of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival) Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, founded by composer Victoria Bond, has announced two special concerts this fall. First up is “Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock: A Celebration in Music,” set for Sept. 17 in partnership with The Village Trip. The event will feature soprano Amy Burton alongside the {…}

Sep 19, 2023

Marshall Opera to Present ‘Oral History Project Concert’

Marshal Opera is set to present the “Oral History Project Concert” at the Cell Theatre in New York on Oct. 28, 2023. The showcase, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m., will feature works by Victoria Bond, Michael Dellaira, Kenneth Fuchs, Charles Fussell, Daron Hagen, Adolphus Hailstork, Louis Karchin, Douglas Knehans, Jo Kondo, Tobias Picker, Judith Shatin, Alice Shields, Faye-Ellen Silverman, {…}

Aug 22, 2023

Michael Kelly to Headline Victoria Bond’s Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

Baritone Michael Kelly is set to headline “Neighbors, Lovers, and Friends” at the Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival on Sept. 9, 2023. The showcase, which will take place at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, will feature music by Victoria Bond, John Cage, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, John Glover, John Musto, and Astor Piazzolla. Kelly {…}

Apr 18, 2022

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival & Mostly Modern Projects to Present ‘Kings, Giants & Robots’

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will team up with Mostly Modern Projects to present “Kings, Giants & Robots.” The showcase will feature Victoria Bond’s puppet operetta “How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct” as well as Herschel Garfein’s “King of the River” and Robert Paterson’s one-act opera “The Companion.” The trilogy of works will {…}

Jan 13, 2021

Composer Profile: Victoria Bond, Legendary American Composer & Conductor

American conductor and composer Victoria Bond is one of the most popular artists of opera and classical music today. Over a long career that has included conducting stints around the world and dozens of original compositions, Bond is also notable for her distinction as the first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School. Bond was {…}

Jan 16, 2020

Victoria Bond’s ‘Mrs. President’ To Return to NYC

Composer Victoria Bond and librettist Hilary Bell’s “Mrs. President” is set to return to New York’s Symphony Space on April 27, 2020. The concert performance will feature Valerie Bernhardt as Victoria Woodhull, Scott Ramsay as Henry Ward Beecher, Michael Kelly as Col. James Blood, Katie Hannigan as Roxie, Keely Futterer as Isabella Beecher, and David Charles Tay as Joseph Treat. {…}

Nov 17, 2019

Cutting Edge Concerts Highlights Victoria Bonds’ ‘Mrs. President,’ Camille Claudel

Victoria Bond’s “Mrs. President” will get a showcase at Symphony Space in New York this April 27, 2020 as part of the Cutting Edge Concerts Series. “Mrs. President’ tells the story of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for the highest office in the nation in 1872. She was often seen as a threat to society and deemed “Mrs. {…}

Oct 8, 2019

Victoria Bond’s ‘Clara’ Comes To NYC This November

(Credit: Symphony Space Official Website) The German Forum is set to showcase Victoria Bond and Barbara Zinn Krieger’s “Clara” in New York. The new opera will be presented at Symphony Space in New York City on Nov. 8 with another showcase set for Nov. 10 at the Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck. The opera will feature Christine Reber as {…}

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