Enabling the audience to reconnect with the music, the singers, and the story. Last season it presented the U.S. A. Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto
The Little Opera Theatre of New York is a chamber opera company that was founded in September of 2004. premiere of César Cui’s A Feast in the Time of the Plague with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart & Salieri at the Hudson Guild Theatre in a double-billed program entitled 2 Little Tragedies of Pushkin. It has consistently produced rare and new work, including Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, New Voi
ces original chamber operas by three living composers. In 2008, LOTNY presented Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein’s The Mother of Us All in New York nightclub The Box in a collaboration with the visual artist Sherrie Levine. In the fall of 2011, LOTNY will return to Socrates Sculpture Park with Make Believe: A Tribute to Jerome Kern, a free concert as part of the citywide September Concert in remembrance of 9/11. In May 2011, Little Opera Theatre of NY will present the New York stage premier of W.
Operating as usual
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Soprano Carami Hilaire recently debut with On Site Opera in What Lies Beneath. In 2020 she starred in two prominent White Snake Projects, Alice in the Pandemic, and Essential Songs, Pioneer Valley Symphony for Brahms Requiem, and returns to White Snake projects for Cosmic Cowboy. The Metropolitan Opera Guild has featured her in concert performances of Tosca.
-Hear her on June 3 at Merkin Hall-
Baritone Kyle Oliver operatic highlights include portraying Zurga in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers with Sarasota Opera and Junius in Britten’s The R**e of Lucretia with Loft Opera in New York City. Oliver has frequently performed with Pittsburgh Opera most recently creating the role of Dave Hoskins in the world premiere of The Summer King. Kyle is a recipient of the Jeanette Rohatyn Award by the Metropolitan Opera National Council.
-Hear him June 3 at Merkin Hall-
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Mezzo-soprano Sarah Nelson Craft recent performances include the title role in Handel’s Solomon with New York Baroque, Inc. and Amor Artis Chorus, as well as the role of Piramo in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe with LOTNY. Solo concert highlights have included Bach’s Mass in B minor at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Alice Tully Hall, Vivaldi’s Gloria at Carnegie Hall.
-Hear her on June 3 at Merkin Hall
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Gregory Sheppard, bass-baritone has appeared with Syracuse Opera, NYCO, Central City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Opera Merola and Western Opera Tour, Orchestra of St. Luke's, American Symphony. European engagements include Munich Biennale Festival, Vienna Festival, Savonlinna Opera, Orchestra Solisti di Roma.
-Here him on June 3 at Merkin Hall
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Baritone Adam Richardson recent performances include a Cincinnati Opera debut, various engagements with Beth Morrison Projects, joining the cast of Ricky Ian Gordon's new opera Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater, debut with Linton Chamber Music, and understudying the title role of Malcolm X in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at Detroit Opera.
-Hear him this Friday June 3 at Merkin Hall-
Composer and librettist hard at work. Find out more on June 3 at Merkin Hall.
"Instead of worrying about the material of music, the theory behind it, the opinion of other musicians, my main concern is to find the purest expression in music for what I want to say" - Kurt Weill
find our more on June 3 at Merkin Hall
The little OPERA theatre of ny, in association with National Black Theatre and Harlem Opera Theater, is pleased to present a Spring Preview Concert of its new production, ‘American One Acts, a double bill’
Tickets are on sale now for this exciting performance at Kaufman Music Center on Friday, June 3 (ticket link and details in bio)!
This will be the first iteration of a larger production that will pair Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still, libretto by Verna Arvey, with Down in the Valley by Kurt Weill, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The spring preview concert will feature highlights from both operas along with other music by the composers.
The Conductor & Music Director for the concert is Harlem Opera Theater’s Artistic Director Gregory Hopkins, who is joined by LOTNY Associate Musician Catherine Miller at the piano. Featured Artists include Soprano Carami Hilaire, Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Nelson Craft, Tenor Antonio Chase, Jr., Baritones Kyle Oliver and Adam Richardson, and Bass Gregory Sheppard. The performance is directed by Philip Shneidman.
little OPERA is grateful to for making this and future performances possible.
‘American One Acts: the preview concert’ is also part of the Seventh Annual New York Opera Fest, presented by the New York Opera Alliance (NYOA) in partnership with OPERA America.
Pictured L to R: Still, Arvey, Weill, Sundgaard; images courtesy of William Grant Still Music & Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York.
Happy Birthday to William Grant Still, born on this day in 1895. We are excited to be working on his music and discovering new things every day.
LOTNY is excited for our friends at The National Black Theatre: Institute for Action Arts and their event this coming Friday.
Join at the Apollo on May 7th for the Gathering, taking audiences on a sonic quest rooted in the ritual tradition with a diverse array of contemporary multidisciplinary artists.
we'll be there tomorrow ! $10 tickets thru NY Opera Fest online til 1pm tomorrow, or cash at the door. presentations start at 7pm at Opera America
We are so excited to welcome you to the NY OperaFest 2022 Kick-Off & Service Awards concert on April 14th at 7pm at ! Come and hear some wonderful singing with some excerpts from some NY OperaFest productions! Go to the link in our bio to get tickets.
ID: New York Opera Fest logo is in big black lettering on top with purple and green stripes going in a diagonal. NY OperaFest 2022 Kick-Off & Service Awards Concert is in medium orange lettering.
Catch a first glimpse of our new project at the NY Opera Fest launch event this Thursday, 4/14 at Opera America at 7pm. Get a chance to hear amazing soprano Carami Hilaire.
Good to be back for a real play
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We are sad to have just learned of the passing of Sara Keene this past November. Recently we had shared a picture of her with Carlisle Floyd at our 2017 Gala. She was one of the founding Board Members of little OPERA and helped get us started. Sara was and is a continuing influence on all we do.
Sara Keene, nee Rhodes, was an opera singer, pianist, and proprietor of The Egremont Village Inn.
Fantastic Evening... I think it will be available for several more days on HGO's website. Don't miss the haunting chorus from 'The Passion of Jonathan Wade' Great moments from 'Of Mice and Men' and 'Cold Sassy Tree" 'Willie Stark' and of course 'Susannah.' Bravi tutti.
'Prince of Players' is based upon a play by Jeffrey Hatcher, that was turned into a movie, and then Carlisle Floyd turned the play into an opera. Set in 17th C England after a plague, the leading classical actor sings an impassioned plea to the king "Don't take our stages away."'
A very modern love triangle and a backstage drama about classical theater, it's still astounding that Carlisle Floyd completed his final opera when he was 90! LOTNY was proud to help this original American opera reach new audiences. Find out more at HGO's memorial concert which will be available to livestream
what is a "Markheim?" -one of CF's lesser known operas based upon a spooky Robert Louis Stevenson story. Find out more about the work of Carlisle Floyd at the upcoming HGO Memorial Concert
in anticipation of HGO's upcoming tribute to Carlisle Floyd we wanted to share some of our own memories
HGO is hosting a memorial concert for Carlisle Floyd next Friday, Feb 11.
It's streamable and the info is below. His operas are fundamental to the American canon
and helped open doors to many of today's new works as well.
On September 30, 2021, Carlisle Floyd died at age 95. The great American composer and educator, known as the “Dean of American Opera,” had a decades-long relationship with HGO and with Houston. He is dearly missed. “No other company in the history of opera has had such a long creative relation...
--check out this exciting initiative from Atlanta Opera -- they are looking for composer/librettist teams ---
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for The 96-Hour Opera Project: Stories that Resonate, a composition showcase and competition in which teams of composers and librettists have four days to write, cast, direct and stage completely new and compelling 10-minute operas. Designed specifically for composers and librettists from historically underrepresented communities, the competition is only open to those who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Arab-American, Latin-American or other communities of color, including those artists from outside the US. The winning team will split a $10,000 prize and be commissioned to write a chamber opera for a future season at the Atlanta Opera - all other participating artists are guaranteed a $1,000 honorarium. atlantaopera.org/competition
part II of a new project from LOTNY
An exciting new project in development from LOTNY
Rocker and Broadway star David Byrne is singing the praises of the Save Our Stages Act.
We are sad to loose Carlisle, but thankful for the time we spent with him presenting 'Slow Dusk & Markheim' and the first NYC performances of 'Prince of Players' His operas will live on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/music/carlisle-floyd-dead.html?smid=url-share
His celebrated works drew from the musical traditions of revival meetings and country hoedowns, telling stories of intolerance.
to last week’s concert! For $5 you can still get a ticket to watch MONTEVERDI & other Treasures of the Seicento on demand! Visit lotny.org for details.
Video Stills:
Image 1: l to r: Elliot Figg (at Harpsichord), Michael Kuhn, in background: Doug Balliett
Image 2: l to r: Manami Mizumoto, Rebecca Nelson, Majka Demcak
Image 3: l to r: Elliot Figg, Doug Balliett, Paul Holmes Morton
Image 4: Summer Hassan; in background Doug Balliett
Image 5: l to r: Michael Kuhn, Raúl Melo, Summer Hassan; in background Paul Holmes Morton, Rebecca Nelson
Tonight!!!
Join us online at 7:30pm ET for one of the earliest chamber operas, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, based upon a poem by Torquato Tasso.
The program will also feature instrumental and vocal music of Monteverdi's contemporaries: Dario Castello, as well as Barbara Strozzi, one of the earliest known female composers in the Baroque/Classical tradition.
Featuring internationally acclaimed Tenor Raúl Melo as The Narrator along with tenor Michael Kuhn and soprano Summer Hassan. The performance is led by Music Director & Harpsichordist Elliot Figg, Director Philip Shneidman, Assistant Director Dalia Sevilla, and features Violinists Manami Mizumoto, Rebecca Nelson, and Majka Demcak; Theorbist and Guitarist Paul Morton; and Master of Bass Instruments Doug Balliett.
Live-streaming from St. John’s in the Village. Running time: approx 1 hour
Monteverdi & Other Treasures from the Seicento is also part of the Sixth Annual New York Opera Fest, presented by the New York Opera Alliance (NYOA) in partnership with OPERA America.
For details and tickets visit lotny.org !
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We are pleased to have Paul Holmes Morton join LOTNY THIS Friday (June 4) to play theorbo and guitar in our livestream concert: Monteverdi & other Treasures of the Seicento!
Lutenist, theorbist, banjoist, guitarist, lyricist, composer, arranger, vocalist, historical archeologist, soloist, chamber musician; the music of Paul Holmes Morton is defined less by genre than by a fascination with history, a cultivation of creativity, and a belief that music once born does not die or grow old. With a technical palette of colors ranging from the Florentine Camerata to modern Americana, Paul follows the thread of resonant evolution, his interpretations and performances stained with the resin left by countless musics present and not yet passed.
Tickets to join us online are just $5 and still available at lotny.org (link in bio).
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We are delighted to have Violinist Rebecca Nelson return to LOTNY for our livestream concert: Monteverdi & other Treasures of the Seicento on June 4!
Rebecca Nelson (Violin) was the first US citizen born in former East Germany. At fourteen she left home to pursue a musical career in the States. She has played with different period ensembles all over the East Coast, including Boston’s Handel Haydn Society and has performed works on gut strings ranging from Monteverdi operas to film music by Saint-Säens. She is a member of the Shanghai Camerata, Digital Camerata and she recently joined Nuova Practica, a troupe of modern baroque composers and performers. Since graduating from The Juilliard School in May of 2020, Rebecca has started composing songs inspired by her love of both baroque and folk and is recording her very first album titled Do Not Lament.
Rebecca has recently been featured in LOTNY’s The Shepherd King video project (available on LOTNY’s website and YouTube channel).
Visit lotny.org, where you can watch The Shepherd King and get tickets for Monteverdi this Friday!
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: we are delighted to have Violinist Manami Mizumoto return to LOTNY for our June 4th livestream concert: MONTEVERDI & other Treasures of the Seicento. Ms. Mizumoto has been featured in LOTNY’s The Shepherd King video project (which you can watch at lotny.org) and in the livestream Mozart & Friends.
New York native Manami Mizumoto (Violin) started her lifelong relationship with music at age 3 on the violin. Early exposure to chamber music sparked in her a devoted love of collaboration. This led to a fascination with performing contemporary music and working with living composers. In recent years, this has manifested in a songwriting project co-created with Uhuru Quartet and composer Sato Matsui to benefit women’s shelters in NYC. In addition, Manami is passionate about exploring different approaches to music making in history and how that can transform the way modern audiences relate to music of the past. Her driving curiosity is in exploring the dialogue between ancient and contemporary thoughts, and she is equally at home on the baroque violin, modern violin, and electro-acoustic setups with Ableton Live. Manami is a recent graduate of the Juilliard School, where she earned her Masters in Historical Performance and graduated with the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant.
Tickets start at just $5 for MONTEVERDI this Friday! Visit lotny.org for details. Link in bio.
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