The Little Opera Theatre Of NY

06/10/2021

#TBT 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

#meetopera #monteverdi #operaonline #lotnylivestream #monteverdilivestream #lotny #claudiomontiverdi #watchopera #viewondemand

06/04/2021

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 !

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 !

06/03/2021

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).

#meetopera #nyoperafest2021 #claudiomonteverdi #monteverdilivestream #littleopera #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #theorboplayersofinstagram #theorbo #operaonline #operaconcert

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).

#meetopera #nyoperafest2021 #claudiomonteverdi #monteverdilivestream #littleopera #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #theorboplayersofinstagram #theorbo #operaonline #operaconcert

06/02/2021

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!

#meetopera #monteverdi #monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #nyoperafest2021 #operaonline #barbarastrozzi #claudiomonteverdi #dariocastello #theshepherdking

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!

#meetopera #monteverdi #monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #nyoperafest2021 #operaonline #barbarastrozzi #claudiomonteverdi #dariocastello #theshepherdking

06/02/2021

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.

#meetopera #monteverdi #monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #nyoperafest2021 #operaonline #barbarastrozzi #claudiomonteverdi #dariocastello

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.

#meetopera #monteverdi #monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #nyoperafest2021 #operaonline #barbarastrozzi #claudiomonteverdi #dariocastello

06/02/2021

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We are excited to have Elliot Figg return to LOTNY as Music Director and Harpsichordist for Monteverdi & other Treasures from the Seicento on June 4th. This will be his fourth time working with LOTNY since conducting the company's 2016 production of L'Amant Anonyme. Other productions include Hasse's Piramo e Tisbe, and Mozart's The Shepherd King (in progress).

Elliot is a graduate of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School where he studied harpsichord with Kenneth Weiss. He also studied with Arthur Haas at the Yale School of Music. Elliot is an active member of several New York-based early music and contemporary ensembles, including ACRONYM, Ruckus, New Vintage Baroque, and Makaris. Recent engagements include: Five Boroughs Music Festival, in a concert featuring his own music; Conductor and Harpsichordist for Death of Classical's production of Dido and Aeneas in the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery; Deputy Music Director and Harpsichordist for Farinelli and the King on Broadway; Assistant Conductor and Harpsichordist for Il Farnace and Veremonda, both with Spoleto Festival USA; and Assistant Conductor and Harpsichordist for Dido and Aeneas with L.A. Opera.

Still need your tickets for Monteverdi? Visit lotny.org (link in bio).

#monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #monteverdi #operaonline #operaconcert #nyoperafest2021 #meetopera #harpsichordist

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We are excited to have Elliot Figg return to LOTNY as Music Director and Harpsichordist for Monteverdi & other Treasures from the Seicento on June 4th. This will be his fourth time working with LOTNY since conducting the company's 2016 production of L'Amant Anonyme. Other productions include Hasse's Piramo e Tisbe, and Mozart's The Shepherd King (in progress).

Elliot is a graduate of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School where he studied harpsichord with Kenneth Weiss. He also studied with Arthur Haas at the Yale School of Music. Elliot is an active member of several New York-based early music and contemporary ensembles, including ACRONYM, Ruckus, New Vintage Baroque, and Makaris. Recent engagements include: Five Boroughs Music Festival, in a concert featuring his own music; Conductor and Harpsichordist for Death of Classical's production of Dido and Aeneas in the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery; Deputy Music Director and Harpsichordist for Farinelli and the King on Broadway; Assistant Conductor and Harpsichordist for Il Farnace and Veremonda, both with Spoleto Festival USA; and Assistant Conductor and Harpsichordist for Dido and Aeneas with L.A. Opera.

Still need your tickets for Monteverdi? Visit lotny.org (link in bio).

#monteverdilivestream #lotny #thelittleoperatheatreofny #monteverdi #operaonline #operaconcert #nyoperafest2021 #meetopera #harpsichordist

06/02/2021

the little OPERA theatre of ny to Present 'Monteverdi & Other Treasures from the Seicento' - Opera Wire

thanks to OperaWire for the plug for this Friday's concert and our 3 great singers !

On June 4, 2021, the little OPERA theatre of ny will present a livestreamed concert entitled “Monteverdi & Other Treasures from the Seicento.” The concert will feature one of Monteverdi’s earliest chamber operas, “Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” which first premiered in Venice in ...

06/01/2021

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We're thrilled to have Tenor Raúl Melo return to LOTNY as Testo/The Narrator in Monteverdi & other Treasures from the Seicento. He last performed with LOTNY as Sir Charles Sedley, in our NY premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players.

Melo has performed at the MET as the Duke in Rigoletto opposite Anna Netrebko and as Pinkerton to Patricia Racette’s Madama Butterfly. He was most recently seen as Neruda in Daniel Catan’s Il Postino with Virginia Opera and Opera Southwest; Faust with Arizona Opera; and Pollione in Norma opposite Angela Meade with the Astoria Music Festival. Other appearances include La Bohème in Shanghai, Naples, and Palermo; Butterfly and Tosca with New York City Opera and New Orleans Opera; Carmen in Salerno and Leipzig; Rigoletto in Bologna; La Traviata in Palm Beach and Oslo; Un Ballo in Maschera with Seattle Opera; and Lucia di Lammermoor in Zurich. Concert appearances include the Chicago Symphony under Riccardo Muti; Faust in Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust conducted by Keith Lockhart with the Utah Symphony; Massenet’s La Navarraise with New York City Opera; and the Verdi Requiem at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. Additionally Mr. Melo has performed with Berlin's Deutsche Oper and State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart's State Opera, Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Frankfurt Opera, and Dresden State Opera to name a few; and in the United States he has sung with Washington Opera, Cleveland Opera, Minnesota Opera, Des Moines Opera, Connecticut Opera and Fort Worth Opera among others.

For just $5, you can join us online for this livestream concert! Get the scoop and your tickets at lotny.org (link in bio).

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: We're thrilled to have Tenor Raúl Melo return to LOTNY as Testo/The Narrator in Monteverdi & other Treasures from the Seicento. He last performed with LOTNY as Sir Charles Sedley, in our NY premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players.

Melo has performed at the MET as the Duke in Rigoletto opposite Anna Netrebko and as Pinkerton to Patricia Racette’s Madama Butterfly. He was most recently seen as Neruda in Daniel Catan’s Il Postino with Virginia Opera and Opera Southwest; Faust with Arizona Opera; and Pollione in Norma opposite Angela Meade with the Astoria Music Festival. Other appearances include La Bohème in Shanghai, Naples, and Palermo; Butterfly and Tosca with New York City Opera and New Orleans Opera; Carmen in Salerno and Leipzig; Rigoletto in Bologna; La Traviata in Palm Beach and Oslo; Un Ballo in Maschera with Seattle Opera; and Lucia di Lammermoor in Zurich. Concert appearances include the Chicago Symphony under Riccardo Muti; Faust in Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust conducted by Keith Lockhart with the Utah Symphony; Massenet’s La Navarraise with New York City Opera; and the Verdi Requiem at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. Additionally Mr. Melo has performed with Berlin's Deutsche Oper and State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart's State Opera, Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Frankfurt Opera, and Dresden State Opera to name a few; and in the United States he has sung with Washington Opera, Cleveland Opera, Minnesota Opera, Des Moines Opera, Connecticut Opera and Fort Worth Opera among others.

For just $5, you can join us online for this livestream concert! Get the scoop and your tickets at lotny.org (link in bio).