Nov
18
7:30 PM19:30

Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot

Cailin Marcel Manson leads the ensembles of Clark University, and soloists: Sopranos Othalie Graham (Turandot) and Janinah Burnett (Liu), as well as Nicholas Tocci (Timur), Liam Shannon (Ping), Christen Carney (Pang) in a one night only performance of Puccini’s Turandot on November 18th, 2023 at Mechanic’s Hall in Worcester, MA.

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Sep
17
4:00 PM16:00

Opera Vermont in Connecticut

NB: THIS CONCERT IS PARTIALLY SPONSORED BY A PRIVATE DONOR, WITH THE SOLE DESIRE TO REDUCE TICKET PRICES FOR THIS CONCERT IN PARTICULAR, WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR TICKET PRICE DISCREPANCY.

Brandon’s opera company, BARN OPERA, is answering the call from across the state for more live, quality, operatic performance, by partnering with theatrical venues across the state, to create Opera Vermont – with the goal being, all of opera for all of Vermont. 

BARN OPERA is thrilled to partner with the Southern Vermont Arts Center (Manchester, Vermont) as well as the Highland Center for the Performing Arts (Greensboro) to provide Opera Vermont’s inaugural season, located in each of the partner theatrical venues, including the BARN OPERA house. 

Opera Vermont will be producing a pastiche concert of opera and musical theatre, with a meet and greet with the artists immediately following the concerts. The artists performing will be Artistic, Music, and Associate directors of Opera Vermont (Joshua Collier, Cailin Marcel Manson, and Nicholas Tocci) as well as Vermont-based soprano Kyra Miller. Newcomer to the Opera Vermont family is soprano Kathleen Echols, who was the soprano who sang Mimi in BARN OPERA’s international training program for emerging artists, Opera al Mare.

All five of these vocalists will be led from the piano by BARN OPERA’s principal pianist, Claire Black. This concert will officially launch Opera Vermont, and announce its 2024 inaugural season. 

PROGRAM:

Act I, Scene I (Così Fan Tutte – W. A. Mozart)

Donde lieta (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

O Mimi, Tu Piu Non Torni (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

Ah, Forse Lui…Sempre Libera (La Traviata – G. Verdi)

Nedda! Silvio! (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Si Può (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

INTERMISSION

Votre Toast (Carmen – G. Bizet)

Mario! Mario! Mario! (Tosca – G. Puccini)

Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto – G. Verdi)

On My Own (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Bring Him home (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Stars (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Somewhere (West Side Story – L. Bernstein)

Make our Garden Grow (Candide – L. Bernstein)

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Sep
15
7:30 PM19:30

Opera Vermont Inaugural Concert

Brandon’s opera company, BARN OPERA, is answering the call from across the state for more live, quality, operatic performance, by partnering with theatrical venues across the state, to create Opera Vermont – with the goal being, all of opera for all of Vermont. 

BARN OPERA is thrilled to partner with the Southern Vermont Arts Center (Manchester, Vermont) as well as the Highland Center for the Performing Arts (Greensboro) to provide Opera Vermont’s inaugural season, located in each of the partner theatrical venues, including the BARN OPERA house. 

Opera Vermont will be producing a pastiche concert of opera and musical theatre, with a meet and greet with the artists immediately following the concerts. The artists performing will be Artistic, Music, and Associate directors of Opera Vermont (Joshua Collier, Cailin Marcel Manson, and Nicholas Tocci) as well as Vermont-based soprano Kyra Miller. Newcomer to the Opera Vermont family is soprano Kathleen Echols, who was the soprano who sang Mimi in BARN OPERA’s international training program for emerging artists, Opera al Mare.

All five of these vocalists will be led from the piano by BARN OPERA’s principal pianist, Claire Black. This concert will officially launch Opera Vermont, and announce its 2024 inaugural season. 

PROGRAM:

Act I, Scene I (Così Fan Tutte – W. A. Mozart)

Donde lieta (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

O Mimi, Tu Piu Non Torni (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

Ah, Forse Lui…Sempre Libera (La Traviata – G. Verdi)

Nedda! Silvio! (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Si Può (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

INTERMISSION

Votre Toast (Carmen – G. Bizet)

Mario! Mario! Mario! (Tosca – G. Puccini)

Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto – G. Verdi)

On My Own (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Bring Him home (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Stars (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Somewhere (West Side Story – L. Bernstein)

Make our Garden Grow (Candide – L. Bernstein)

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Sep
14
7:30 PM19:30

Opera Vermont Inaugural Concert

Brandon’s opera company, BARN OPERA, is answering the call from across the state for more live, quality, operatic performance, by partnering with theatrical venues across the state, to create Opera Vermont – with the goal being, all of opera for all of Vermont. 

BARN OPERA is thrilled to partner with the Southern Vermont Arts Center (Manchester, Vermont) as well as the Highland Center for the Performing Arts (Greensboro) to provide Opera Vermont’s inaugural season, located in each of the partner theatrical venues, including the BARN OPERA house. 

Opera Vermont will be producing a pastiche concert of opera and musical theatre, with a meet and greet with the artists immediately following the concerts. The artists performing will be Artistic, Music, and Associate directors of Opera Vermont (Joshua Collier, Cailin Marcel Manson, and Nicholas Tocci) as well as Vermont-based soprano Kyra Miller. Newcomer to the Opera Vermont family is soprano Kathleen Echols, who was the soprano who sang Mimi in BARN OPERA’s international training program for emerging artists, Opera al Mare.

All five of these vocalists will be led from the piano by BARN OPERA’s principal pianist, Claire Black. This concert will officially launch Opera Vermont, and announce its 2024 inaugural season. 

PROGRAM:

Act I, Scene I (Così Fan Tutte – W. A. Mozart)

Donde lieta (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

O Mimi, Tu Piu Non Torni (La Bohème – G. Puccini)

Ah, Forse Lui…Sempre Libera (La Traviata – G. Verdi)

Nedda! Silvio! (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Si Può (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci – R. Leoncavallo)

INTERMISSION

Votre Toast (Carmen – G. Bizet)

Mario! Mario! Mario! (Tosca – G. Puccini)

Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto – G. Verdi)

On My Own (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Bring Him home (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Stars (Les Miserables – Boubil/Schonberg)

Somewhere (West Side Story – L. Bernstein)

Make our Garden Grow (Candide – L. Bernstein)

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May
4
4:00 PM16:00

Oratorio Chorale - Britten's Abraham & Isaac

Joshua Collier performs the tenor solos with the Oratorio Chorale of Maine in their concert "The Binding of Isaac," exploring the many musical settings of this biblical experience. 

Emily Isaacson conducts the Oratorio Chorale in the following Repertoire:

Britten Canticle II (Abraham & Isaac)

Charpentier Méditations pour le Carême. 10ème (‘Tentavit Deus Abraham’)

Carissimi Historia di Abraham et Isaac  

Information can be found at https://oratoriochorale.org/

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May
4
2:00 PM14:00

Oratorio Chorale - Britten's Abraham & Isaac

Joshua Collier performs the tenor solos with the Oratorio Chorale of Maine in their concert "The Binding of Isaac," exploring the many musical settings of this biblical experience. 

Emily Isaacson conducts the Oratorio Chorale in the following Repertoire:

Britten Canticle II (Abraham & Isaac)

Charpentier Méditations pour le Carême. 10ème (‘Tentavit Deus Abraham’)

Carissimi Historia di Abraham et Isaac  

Information can be found at https://oratoriochorale.org/

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May
2
7:00 PM19:00

Oratorio Chorale - Britten's Abraham & Isaac

Joshua Collier performs the tenor solos with the Oratorio Chorale of Maine in their concert "The Binding of Isaac," exploring the many musical settings of this biblical experience. 

Emily Isaacson conducts the Oratorio Chorale in the following Repertoire:

Britten Canticle II (Abraham & Isaac)

Charpentier Méditations pour le Carême. 10ème (‘Tentavit Deus Abraham’)

Carissimi Historia di Abraham et Isaac  

Information can be found at https://oratoriochorale.org/

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Apr
14
3:00 PM15:00

Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra - Britten's "Les Illuminations"

Joshua Collier joins the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra led by Matt Scinto for Britten's "Les Illuminations" Ticketing information can be found at www.capecodchamberorchestra.org

FOLK AND GOREY

Sun. April 14th, 2019 | 3 PM

Pilgrim Congregational Church, Harwich Port

Composer-in-Residence Francis Snyder returns for his last concert of 2019 in a project with the Edward Gorey House, featuring illustrations and stories from the local talent who lived in Yarmouth for most his life. Featuring tenor Joshua Collier, who has been hailed as a "great Italian tenor on the make" by Boston's Classical Scene, in Britten's stirring Les Illuminations. Folk music flows through the rest of the program, with music of Bartok and Dvorak.

ROGRAM:*

BARTOK Romanian Folk Dances

BRITTEN Les Illuminations

Joshua Collier, tenor

SNYDER Commissioning Project

DVORAK Serenade for Strings

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