Laura Kaminsky quotes the Franz Schubert song “The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen)” at key moments in Lucidity. Schubert composed the lied for soprano, clarinet, and piano in 1828, during the final months of his life. For lyrics, Schubert wove together verse by poets Wilhelm Müller and Karl August Varnhagen von
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Hello! Happy New Year to you all! This one is particularly thrilling for me as I begin my new role as your Artistic Director here at On Site Opera. As we enter this new phase for the company, I want to stress my commitment to the future of On Site.
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ON SITE OPERA APPOINTS SARAH MEYERS AS NEXT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FOLLOWING FOUNDER’S DECADE-LONG LEGACY NEW YORK, October 27, 2023– Last night, at On Site Opera’s annual fundraising gala at the Prince George Ballroom, the company announced the appointment of Sarah Meyers as its next Artistic Director, succeeding the company’s co-founder,
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ON SITE OPERA APPOINTS CURRENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PIPER GUNNARSON AS NEXT GENERAL DIRECTOR/CEO NEW YORK, April 18, 2023– On Site Opera, New York’s pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific storytelling and the immersive experience, is pleased to announce Piper Gunnarson as its next General Director/CEO, effective May 1. Piper has
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By Eric Einhorn On September 24, I had the pleasure of joining an esteemed panel of colleagues to speak on two panels during Opera America’s Professional Development Workshop for BIPOC Singers. The participants were a wonderful group of mostly emerging artists looking for guidance as they embark on the next
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By Annette Phuvan I was never technically homeless. I was forced to leave my home of 21 years though after my landlord decided to raise the rent by 600 dollars a month. I couldn’t afford to live there anymore and in a month’s time had to move to Brooklyn, an
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ON SITE OPERA PRESENTS COMEDY AND TRAGEDY UNDER THE STARS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CARAMOOR THIS SUMMER STEPHANIE BLYTHE AND LAQUITA MITCHELL BRING LESSON PLAN LIVE TO THE STAGE ALONG WITH EXCERPTS FROM CARMEN On Site Opera Continues Tenth Anniversary Season with One Night Only Production in the Hudson Valley NEW
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Get to know our new Audience Experience Manager, Yvonne de la Rosa, and Marketing Manager, Bowie Dunwoody! What was your first performing arts experience and what made it memorable? Yvonne: My first and most memorable experience with the performing arts has to be the school Christmas shows I was a
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PRINT MAGAZINE by Ellen M. Shapiro February 3, 2021 When theaters are dark because of the pandemic, what do you do (if you’re smart)? You send subscribers and classical music buffs an opera in a box, of course. No, three operas—actually song cycles (a group of sequenced tunes): Leoš Janáček’s
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MEDIUM By Tyler Gallagher Jan. 2, 2021 Read the original article here. As a part of our series about “5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Run a Live Virtual Event”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Einhorn Eric Einhorn is the co-founding General & Artistic Director of
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You can’t physically go to the opera this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start the year off with a song. Natalie Pasquarella sat down with Artistic and General Director Eric EInhorn and Tenor Bernard Holcomb who appears in “The Diary of One Who Vanished” and Cristina Maria Castro
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FORWARD By Irene Katz Connelly Dec. 30, 2020 Read the full article here. Eric Einhorn, the artistic director of On Site Opera, initially struggled to imagine how to serve a scattered, homebound audience. For an opera company that stages site-specific operas in unconventional venues — think “Pygmalion” in a wax
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On Site Opera, a New York City group that performs at non-traditional venues, got an unusual request to perform arias for a team of lawyers at a California firm. The numbers will include an aria from Carmen in which the title character tries to negotiate herself out of prison —
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“If we look back at this year, we can all agree that some of the greatest innovation from around the opera world came not from the “big name” companies, but those with more flexibility.” Operawire named “To My Distant Love” and “The Beauty that Still Remains: Diaries in Song” in
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