July 2023
Gretel, Narnia Festival
Hansel and Gretel
by Engelbert Humperdinck
in Narni, Italy
The 2023 Narnia Festival Vocal Arts Opera Program presents a fully-staged, dark fantasy adaptation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. Join the children on their journey to Las Vegas and meet the zany characters they encounter along the way before finally arriving at Rosina’s Cabaret—a witch’s house like you’ve never seen before.
Directed and conceived by Andrea DelGiudice (Narnia Vocal Arts Program Director); co-directed by Yuri Napoli (Zeffirelli Foundation); conducted by Andrea Alessandrini (Opera Dortmund); choreographed by Paolo Cives; imagery by Giulio Ferro (Rai Television)
July 2023, Narnia Festival
Soloist
Opera in Amelia Gala
Amelia, Italy
A concert of opera scenes and arias at the historic Amelia Duomo with chamber orchestra.
April 24th, 2023
Schola Cantorum
Laudato Si Concert
Assorted Choral Works
Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle, Washington DC.
March 2023 (date coming soon!)
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater
St Mary Mother of God Catholic Church, Washington DC.
The Stabat Mater Dolorosa hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christs's mother, during his crucifixion.. Pergolesi's setting of the work is divided into twelve movements, each named after the incipit of the text.
March 17th and 19th 2023
Chorus in Annapolis Opera's
Le Nozze di Figaro
by W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
at Maryland Hall, Annapolis MD.
Mozart’s beloved opera engages you in the overture and never lets go! Based on the revolutionary Beaumarchais play, The Marriage of Figaro is filled with social commentary and intrigue. Who will succeed: the Count, his servant, or their wives? And will the chaos of the day end in happiness?
November 12, 2022 | 7:30pm
Featured Dancer and Chorus in Maryland Opera's
Ritorna Vincitor!
www.marylandopera.org/upcoming-performances
Maryland Opera opens its new season with a fully costumed and staged collection of Operatic Celebrations including Act 2 of Die Fledermaus.
October 28th & 30th 2022
Chorus in Annapolis Opera's
Lost In The Stars
by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
At Maryland Hall in Annapolis, MD.
annapolisopera.org/event/lost-in-the-stars/
Based on Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country, Kurt Weill’s musical tragedy places us in apartheid South Africa as two fathers’ tragedies connect them through acts of compassion. Reverend Stephen Kumalo has heard no word from his son, Absalom, for a year. Stephen travels to search for him and meets Absalom’s pregnant girlfriend. He discovers that his son has been arrested for murder, setting into motion a series of events that challenge the foundation of his faith. Stephen and the murdered boy’s father, James Jarvis, find understanding in their grief and discover hope.
Synopsis taken from Annapolis Opera Website.
Gretel, Narnia Festival
Hansel and Gretel
by Engelbert Humperdinck
in Narni, Italy
The 2023 Narnia Festival Vocal Arts Opera Program presents a fully-staged, dark fantasy adaptation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. Join the children on their journey to Las Vegas and meet the zany characters they encounter along the way before finally arriving at Rosina’s Cabaret—a witch’s house like you’ve never seen before.
Directed and conceived by Andrea DelGiudice (Narnia Vocal Arts Program Director); co-directed by Yuri Napoli (Zeffirelli Foundation); conducted by Andrea Alessandrini (Opera Dortmund); choreographed by Paolo Cives; imagery by Giulio Ferro (Rai Television)
July 2023, Narnia Festival
Soloist
Opera in Amelia Gala
Amelia, Italy
A concert of opera scenes and arias at the historic Amelia Duomo with chamber orchestra.
April 24th, 2023
Schola Cantorum
Laudato Si Concert
Assorted Choral Works
Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle, Washington DC.
March 2023 (date coming soon!)
Giovanni Batista Pergolesi's
Stabat Mater
St Mary Mother of God Catholic Church, Washington DC.
The Stabat Mater Dolorosa hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christs's mother, during his crucifixion.. Pergolesi's setting of the work is divided into twelve movements, each named after the incipit of the text.
March 17th and 19th 2023
Chorus in Annapolis Opera's
Le Nozze di Figaro
by W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte
at Maryland Hall, Annapolis MD.
Mozart’s beloved opera engages you in the overture and never lets go! Based on the revolutionary Beaumarchais play, The Marriage of Figaro is filled with social commentary and intrigue. Who will succeed: the Count, his servant, or their wives? And will the chaos of the day end in happiness?
November 12, 2022 | 7:30pm
Featured Dancer and Chorus in Maryland Opera's
Ritorna Vincitor!
www.marylandopera.org/upcoming-performances
Maryland Opera opens its new season with a fully costumed and staged collection of Operatic Celebrations including Act 2 of Die Fledermaus.
October 28th & 30th 2022
Chorus in Annapolis Opera's
Lost In The Stars
by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson
At Maryland Hall in Annapolis, MD.
annapolisopera.org/event/lost-in-the-stars/
Based on Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country, Kurt Weill’s musical tragedy places us in apartheid South Africa as two fathers’ tragedies connect them through acts of compassion. Reverend Stephen Kumalo has heard no word from his son, Absalom, for a year. Stephen travels to search for him and meets Absalom’s pregnant girlfriend. He discovers that his son has been arrested for murder, setting into motion a series of events that challenge the foundation of his faith. Stephen and the murdered boy’s father, James Jarvis, find understanding in their grief and discover hope.
Synopsis taken from Annapolis Opera Website.
Past Seasons
2021-2022 Season
August 27th & 28th 2021
The role of Stacy in
SUNDER
by Nailah Nombeko and Alicia Heymer
at The Clarice Smith Performing Art Center and Annapolis Opera
A new work commissioned by the Maryland Opera Studio and Annapolis Opera. Written by two BIPOC women, this opera presents the atmosphere of a protest and the need to fight for ourselves and others with strength, grace, and perseverance.
November 17th, 18th, 19th, & 21st 2021
The role of Pamina in
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
by W.A. Mozart and E. Schikaneder
at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
One of the greatest operas ever written, Mozart's timeless classic concerns the search for truth and reason, love and enlightenment. It follows the adventures of Prince Tamino and the bird-catcher Papageno on their quest to rescue Pamina.
April 8th and 13th 2022 at 7:30pm
The role of Ruth Baldwin in
LATER THE SAME EVENING
by John Musto
at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
In a reimagining of Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto's one-act opera, which first premiered at The Clarice in 2007 in a joint project with the National Gallery of Art, audiences are transported to 1932 New York City for one extended evening. Co-commissioned by the UMD School of Music and The Clarice, Later the Same Evening is inspired by figures in five Edward Hopper paintings of Manhattan: “Room in New York” (1932), “Hotel Window” (1955), “Hotel Room” (1931), “Two on the Aisle” (1927) and “Automat” (1927). As the opera unfolds, the characters from the paintings vividly come to life to intertwine in interesting ways centered around the solitude that a large, bustling city can invoke