OPERA ARIA & SONG SHOWCASE
Saturday MAY 25, 2013-7:00 p.m. Sunday MAY 26, 2013 – 2:00 p.m
$15 at door, students free. wheelchair/elev. accessible
New York ensemble features baritone Christopher DeVage, soprano Tammy Tyburczy and tenor Antonio Abate, with accompanist Jerome Tan performing American songs and Italian opera excerpts: Verdi’s Don Carlo and Otello accompanied by piano. The first half of the program is devoted to Pulitzer-Prize-winning contemporary American composer William Bolcom. The ensemble will perform his more famous cabaret songs. In the second half, the ensemble presents selections from Verdi’s dramatic operas Don Carlo and Otello, and Mozart’s rarely performed and unfinished opera, Zaide. There is a meet-the-artists reception at intermission.
North Hall artist gallery: For this event the North Hall Gallery exhibits the works of Beckie Kravetz, sculptor and opera-theatrical mask-maker from Cummington. Her opera-inspired sculptures and masks were featured at the MetOpera Shop, and she was the resident mask-maker for the Los Angeles Opera. Her masks were recently on exhibit at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington DC. The gallery is open before and after the event and during meet the artists/ performers reception during intermission.
BIOS:
Soprano Tammy Tyburczy, a graduate of Juilliard and the Curtis Institute of Music, has sung the role of Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme on tour with the San Francisco Opera and Susanna at the Aspen Music Festival. She also sang Pamina in Mozart’s Magic Flute with Pittsburgh Opera. For four years she sang the soprano solo in The Lord of the Rings Symphony with the Utah, Baltimore, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Symphony orchestras. In 2006 she covered the international artist Ruth Ann Swenson as Marguerite in Faust. Ms. Tyburczy recently recorded the soprano solo in The Evidence of Things Not Seen with Albany Records. She recently recorded a demo for the new Hyundai Sonata commercial.
Tenor Antonio Abate, a graduate of Juilliard, has performed major roles including the title role in Faust, the title role in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, Sam in Street Scene, Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Basilio and Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro, Tamino and Monastatos in The Magic Flute, and Andrew Johnson in The Mother of Us All. Mr. Abate completed a year at the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute in North Carolina as one of only six fellows. He has attended the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival, the Ravinia Steans Institute, Bowdoin Music Festival, Opera North, Chautauqua Music School, BASOTI Music Festival in San Francisco, and Aspen Music Festival.
Baritone Christopher DeVage, a graduate of Juilliard and the Shenandoah Conservatory, holds a Master of Music degree in opera performance from the University of Maryland College Park, made his New York Philharmonic début in Bernstein’s West Side Story Suites at Carnegie Hall. Last season he was heard in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion ( American Classical Orchestra), and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (New Amsterdam Symphony) to name a few performances. A winner in the Oratorio Society of New York solo competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, he has appeared as soloist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. Mr. DeVage recently created the role, to critical acclaim, of Edgardo Mortara in the world premiere of Francesco Cilluffo’s Il Caso Mortara with Dicapo Opera Theatre.
Pianist Jerome Tan, a native of Singapore, came to the U.S. on a music scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned masters degrees in piano performance and ensemble arts. He has served as a staff pianist at the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival. Since receiving the Marilyn Horne Foundation Award for Vocal Collaboration from the Music Academy of the West, he has become a regular collaborator with many singers. Notable engagements include both The Song Continues and On Wings of Song programs in New York, and a birthday gala in honor of Miss Horne at Carnegie Hall as well accompanist for singers at the L’Academie musicale de Villecroze in southern France.
All welcome.
contact: 413- 667- 5543 / www.northhallhuntington.org