Lying. Cheating. Vocalises… All in a day’s work for Don Basilio, Rosina’s slimy music teacher. From spreading rumors to happily accepting bribes, Basilio works the plot from all angles. Bass-baritone Isaiah Musik-Ayala couldn’t be more different than his character. We caught up with this down-to-earth singer to find out some
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From the young cunning ward to the conflicted Countess later in the trilogy, Rosina is arguably one of the most complex roles in opera. We first meet our heroine through Bartolo’s window, and it is from that same window that the Count and Figaro try to rescue her. We caught
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At the center of On Site Opera’s The Barber of Seville is our very own barber: baritone Andrew Wilkowske! Andrew (and his guitar) will be making his On Site Opera debut as Paisiello’s poet-turned-barber. We caught up with him to find out his thoughts on all things Figaro — including who
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On Site Opera is proud to announce Geoffrey McDonald as our Music Director. An exciting conductor and musician in high-demand, Geoffrey is equally at home in the concert hall, the non-traditional opera venue, or performing in his “eccentric chamber pop” band, Miracles of Modern Science. We’d love for you to get to
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A Letter from On Site Opera’s Artistic Director WHERE WILL YOU FIND YOUR OPERA? A Letter from the Artistic Director The thrill of being a patron of On Site Opera is that you never know where you will experience great opera…The Bronx Zoo, Madame Tussauds New York, The Cotton Club in
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Join us in June as On Site Opera begins The Figaro Project with Giovanni Paisiello’s The Barber of Seville On Site Opera brings a new production of the love story to the opulent Fabbri Mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. June 9, 11, 12 and 13 2015 at 7:30pm Fabbri Mansion (House of the Redeemer) 7 East 95th Street | between Madison
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Friday, December 19, 2014 By Fred Plotkin In 2014, I attended 76 opera performances given by 28 companies. A third of these were at the Metropolitan Opera. I have seen productions that were large and grand and others that were done on a spare budget. I am happy to report
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Read the “Clarimonde” newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/YzbIX Composer Frédéric Chaslin & librettist P.H. Fisher. Photo Courtesy of the Artists. Soprano Alyson Cambridge stars as Clarimonde. Photo by Enrique Vega. August 2, 2014: On Site Opera and The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice announce a workshop of Clarimonde, a new opera from composer Frédéric Chaslin and
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In 1983, at a showing of Strauss’ Elektra, the Canadian Opera Company changed opera forever. It introduced a concept that its creator termed surtitles, which projected translated lyrics alongside the performers. It allowed viewers to read the dialogue as they heard it sung in German, rather than having to read the
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by Mark Schubin June 22, 2014 Augmented / Virtual Reality – Almost 100 years ago, on June 16, 1916, thousands of fans stormed Robison Field, home of the St. Louis Cardinals. But they weren’t baseball fans. They were opera fans, upset that they couldn’t hear the sound of the
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On Site Opera and Figaro Systems present a FREE live stream of Rameau’s Pygmalion TUNE IN TONIGHT: Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm EST https://new.livestream.com/onsiteopera/pygmalion On Site Opera and Figaro Systems are excited to announce a FREE live stream of Rameau’s Pygmalion from the Lifestyle-Trimco mannequin showroom featuring the first-ever MobiTxt captions! Watch the live
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Pygmalion is another telling of the popular myth of the sculptor whose love for the statue he has carved is so intense that it is vivified by the gods to love him in return. The myth has been told famously by Ovid in his Metamorphoses (the Phoenician roots of the
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At the musical helm of OSO’s production of Rameau’s Pygmalion is conductor and harpsichordist Jennifer Peterson. With just a week until opening night, we sat down with Jennifer to learn a bit more about early music. OSO: Your company, operamission, is currently in the midst of producing all of Handel’s operas.
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We are honored that Gramophone included Pygmalion in this month’s listings! We hope you’ll join us for Rameau’s masterpiece! Tickets available at: onsiteopera.showclix.com.
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