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“How To Write Your Own Wagner Opera |
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WASHINGTON NATIONAL WAGNER SOCIETY presents
“How To Write Your Own Wagner Opera”
A musical lecture with Colleen Fay
Sunday, May 2, 2010
3:00 PM
The Universalist
National Memorial Church
1810 16th Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
202 470 5559
FREE Admission
Come join Ms. Fay for an in-depth look at how Wagner constructed the scenes for his operas and how they differ from the scenes created by other opera composers, such as Mozart or Verdi.
Ms.Fay is a singer, composer, arts critic and lecturer active in the Washington, DC area. She has performed with numerous organizations including the Washington National Opera and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
A Washington Post critic had called her singing, “stylistically impressive and particularly distinguished.” A recent recording of her compositions was supported by a grant from the D. C. Commission on Arts
and Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.She has been the music critic on Public Television’s “Around Town” for more than 20 years and regularly appears on National Public Radio’s “Metro Connection” heard on Washington’s WAMU-FM.
She was the Head Librarian of the Performing Arts Library at the John F, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 1978 to 1993 and previously
was a Music Librarianat the Library of Congress.
Ms. Fay is a regular lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and writes program notes for several musical ensembles in the Washington area.
For more information, call the Society at 202 470 5559 or email:
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Web site: http://www.washingtonnationalwagnersociety.org |
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New York City Opera's 2010-2011 season |
Subscribe now to New York City Opera's 2010-2011 season, which includes innovative new operatic works, modern takes on traditional repertoire, and a full spectrum of emerging and distinguished singers and composers. The season includes:
A Quiet Place: the final stage work of Leonard Bernstein
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Intermezzo: Richard Strauss's rarely performed domestic
comedy
The Elixir of Love: Donizetti's Italian classic reimagined
with American swagger
Monodramas: A triptych of groundbreaking operas by John
Zorn, Arnold Schoenberg, and Morton Feldman
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Schwartz, the composer of hit shows Wicked, Godspell and
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA at the Liederkranz Foundation in New York City |
Liederkranz Opera Theatre invites you to join us this weekend for two performances of Friedrich von Flotow's rarely heard ALESSANDRO STRADELLA at the Liederkranz Foundation in New York City. Pianist and Musical Direction is by Elizabeth Hastings; Stage Direction by Michael Scarola.
The cast includes Jorge Garza, Charlotte Detrick, Jacob Feldman, Nathan Bahny and Lawrence Long. The work, not heard in NYC since 1910, will be sung in German with English Supertitles.
General Admission; Reservations recommended as seating is limited. Adults: $25, Seniors and Students with ID: $20. Performances will take place at The Liederkranz, 6 East 87th Street (off Fifth Avenue) this Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21, 2009 at 7:30 PM.
For more information please go to: http://www.liederkranznycity.org/home.asp |
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Award-winning singer takes lead role in Phoenix Opera's 'Carmen' |
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Award-winning singer takes lead role in Phoenix Opera's 'Carmen'
 Arnold Rutkowski, who recently won the Prize CulturArte at Operalia, the World Opera Competition in Budapest, has been tapped for the leading role of Don Jose in the Phoenix Opera's Nov. 6 and 8 presentation of “Carmen.”
The competition was started by famed tenor Placido Domingo in 1993 for performers from ages 18 to 30 and typically sees 800 to 1,000 applications.
Phoenix Opera General Director John Massaro said Rutkowski has “one of the most beautiful voices” he has ever heard.
Rutkowski graduated from the Lodz Conservatory in Poland in 2005 and from 2002 to 2008 sang numerous roles at major opera houses in Europe. In June, he performed with Domingo at the Opera House in Lodz.
His performances in Phoenix will mark the opening of the local opera company’s third season. “Madama Butterfly” will be the season’s second opera Feb. 12 and 14.
Hungarian soprano Viktoria Vizin, who has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, will sing the role of Carmen with Rutkowski. The work by Georges Bizet is one of the world’s most popular operas telling the story of the gypsy Carmen and her passion for a Spanish soldier, Don Jose.
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