| New York City Opera will perform as part of the fundraiser for Opera! Pike! Park! to be held on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 7pm at the Milford Theater, 114 E Catharine St, Milford, PA. Table Seating tickets include a cocktail server (credit card required) during the show. The Milford Theater Bar will be open one hour before the show, serving wine, beer, cocktails and concessions. Tickets start at $30 (a portion of which will go to the Opera! Pike! Park! non-profit organization) and are available at https://themilfordtheater.com/events/opera-pike-park-fundraiser/.
Cast:
Inna Dukach, soprano
Gregory Turay, tenor
Dmitriy Glivinskiy, pianist
Program:
La traviata Medley, Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata
Donna non Vidi Mai, Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut
Steal Me Sweet Thief, Gian Carlo Menetti, The Old Maid and the Thief
If I Loved You, Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Carousel
Make Believe, Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II, Showboat
Neapolitan Medley
Mattinata (Leoncavallo), Ruggero Leoncavallo
Funiculì, Funiculà, Luigi Denza & Peppino Turco
Marrechiare, Francesco Paolo Tosti
A vucchella, Paolo Tosti | Gregory
O sole mio, Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo di Capua & Alfredo Mazzucchi
Notturno, Ottorino Respighi, Sei pezzi per pianoforte
Un bel di, Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
Vogliatemi bene, Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
Program is subject to change.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Soprano Inna Dukach has been praised as “a fine actress” (Opera News), “stunning” (BBC Music Mag), “exceptionally sensitive” (Musicweb-International.com), with “a spell binding pianissimo (MusicOMH.com), “considerable power” (Opera News), “appealing emotional vulnerability” (NY Sun) and “warm corners to a voice that moved smoothly up and down the staff and was enlisted in the service of the acting” (The New York Times). Dukach made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly, and she debuted with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Musetta in La bohème. Internationally, Dukach has performed leading roles at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Israeli Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Opéra Lyra Ottawa, Opera de Oviedo, Theater Pforzheim, Opera Hong Kong, Croatian National Opera, and Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra. Regionally in the US, Ms. Dukach has appeared New York City Opera, San Diego, Opera, American Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, Opera Colorado, Florentine Opera, Kentucky Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Anchorage Opera, Opera Omaha, Orlando Opera, Portland Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic and Sacramento Philharmonic. Frequently performed roles include Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Mimi in La bohème, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Violetta in La Traviata, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Antonia/Giulietta in Les contes d’Hoffman, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Nedda in Pagliacci, Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liù in Turandot, and Marguerite in Faust.
Dmitriy Glivinskiy is a Ukrainian vocal coach and conductor and the Music Director of the Opera department at UConn. He is a graduate of Mannes College of Music and of the Peabody Institute where, among his teachers, were Pavlina Dokovska, Boris Slutsky and Scott Jackson Wiley. He is a former faculty member of Hofstra University and Brooklyn College. Most recently, he was the music director for the “Writer’s Room” project with Experiments in Opera and for the American Opera Projects and NYU Tisch Opera Lab: both of which are incubators for new operas.
Gregory Turay, American tenor – Hailed by the London Times as “one of the brightest natural talents to have emerged from the US in recent years, Gregory’s more than twenty-year career has taken him to opera houses throughout the world. His performance of Camille in The Merry Widow with San Francisco Opera on DVD has received international acclaim as has his portrayal of Rodolfo for William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, on CD, a role he created. He has been awarded the industry’s highest award, being named the 2001 Richard Tucker Award recipient in addition to several other prestigious competitions including, The Metropolitan Opera National Council in New York.
ABOUT OPERA! PIKE! PARK!
Live opera will once again fill the air in Milford, PA on August 25, 2024 in a free Opera! Pike! Park! concert on the lawn of the Ann Street Park in Milford Borough. Classic arias, Neapolitan songs, and Broadway tunes will be performed by singers from the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia from 4:00 to 6:00pm. Opera! Pike! Park! is family friendly and attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, snacks, and beverages. Opera! Pike! Park! is free for anyone to attend, however reservations via Eventbrite are required to receive a program. There also are a limited number of seats in folding chairs under the tent. Opera! Pike! Park! is a production of Pike Opera, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It is presented by Milford Borough’s Parks and Recreation Committee. https://pikeopera.org/
ABOUT MILFORD THEATER
Since the 1920s, Milford Theater has served as the community’s moviehouse and sanctuary for performing arts. A staple of the community and historic fixture, Milford Theater is a home for live music, plays, classic film, and more. Located in a vibrant borough with a rich history, the theater provides entertainment that lies at the intersection of modern comfort and nostalgia. Enjoy a classically art deco stage updated to accommodate a wide variety of performances.
The variety at Milford Theater is impressive – a host of live musical performances, plays, and even dance performances grace Milford Theater’s stage. Locals are given the chance to express themselves in a stunning venue that maintains its historic beauty despite modern updates. From classic orchestra to live bands to local theater productions, our theater serves as a notable and unique rainy day destination, family outing, or field trip.
ABOUT NEW YORK CITY OPERA
Founded as “The People’s Opera” by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1943, New York City Opera (NYCO) has remained a critical part of the city’s cultural life. Launching the careers of dozens of major artists, presenting engaging productions of both mainstream and lesser-known operas alongside commissions and regional premieres, NYCO has continued to endure as a uniquely American opera company of international stature with a distinct identity and singular mission: affordable ticket prices, a devotion to American works, English-language performances, the promotion of up-and-coming American singers, and seasons of accessible, vibrant and compelling productions intended to introduce new audiences to the art form.
Stars who launched their careers at New York City Opera include Plácido Domingo, Catherine Malfitano, Sherrill Milnes, Samuel Ramey, Beverly Sills, Tatiana Troyanos, Carol Vaness, and Shirley Verrett, among dozens of other great artists. New York City Opera has also presented such talents as Anna Caterina Antonacci and Aprile Millo in concert, as well as its own 75th Anniversary Concert in Bryant Park.
New York City Opera forged a path of inclusion and diversity in the arts. It was the first major opera company to feature African American singers in leading roles (Todd Duncan as Tonio in Pagliacci, 1945 and Camilla Williams in the title role of Madama Butterfly, 1946); the first to produce a new work by an African American composer (William Grant Still, Troubled Island, 1949); and the first to have an African-American conductor lead its orchestra (Everett Lee, 1955).
A revitalized City Opera re-opened in January 2016 with Tosca, the opera that originally launched the company in 1944. Outstanding productions since then include: the world premieres of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s Stonewall, commissioned and developed by NYCO), legendary director Harold Prince’s new production of Bernstein’s Candide; Puccini’s beloved La Fanciulla del West; and the New York premiere of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas — the first in NYCO’s Ópera en Español series. Subsequent Ópera en Español productions include the New York premiere of the world’s first mariachi opera, José “Pepe” Martinez’s Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, Literes’s Los Elementos, and Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires. NYCO’s Pride Initiative, which produces an LGBTQ-themed work each June during Pride Month, includes such productions as the New York premiere of Péter Eötvös’s Angels in America and the American premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain.
New York City Opera continues its legacy with regular main stage performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, an acclaimed summer series in Bryant Park that brings free performances to thousands of New Yorkers annually, and revitalized outreach and education programs at venues throughout the city that are designed to welcome and inspire a new generation of opera audiences.
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