The Riverside Opera Company will present “A Night at the Opera” Saturday, Nov. 9. from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Teresa’s R.C. Church in Castleton Corners. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
The concert, that begins at 8 p.m., will include its 54-piece orchestra that will accompany winners of the open auditions held in September.
The full symphonic orchestra will be conducted by Alan Aurelia with narrations by Tania Eicoff.
St. Teresa’s Church is located at 1634 Victory Blvd.
Featured performers include soprano Lynnesha Crump, Italian-American tenor Vincenzo Fiorito, mezzo-soprano,Lorraine Helvick and soprano Hyune Kwon.
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Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
Students and children will be admitted free.
For further information phone 718 876-7945.
This program is made possible with public funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
FEATURED PERFORMERS
Crump hails from Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of the Mannes School of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory, where she received her master’s of music and bachelor of music degrees in vocal performance. Crump studied and performed in Italy this summer and recently won the Luana DeVol award for dramatic voices in the SAS Performing Arts vocal competition. She has received awards from prestigious vocal competitions, including two Grammy awards as a featured soloist in Porgy and Bess and for her contribution in “Fire Shut up in My Bones” at the Metropolitan Opera. She sang in the inauguration of former President Barack Obama with artist Beyoncé Knowles.
Italian-American tenor Vincenzo Fiorito, based in New York, studied classical voice at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2022, he performed in Italy with Opera Lucca, singing in scenes from “L’elisir d’amore” as Nemorino, and in 2023, in “The Marriage of Figar” as Don Curzio. Fiorito has sung multiple seasons with the Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island as Frederic (”Pirates of Penzance”), Palmieri (”The Gondoliers”), Strephon (”Patience”), and Lieutenant Officer of Dragoon Guards (”The Duke of Dunstable”) and Ralph Rackstraw (”H.M.S. Pinafore”)
Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Helvick specializes in the works of Strauss, Verdi, and Wagner. She has performed as a guest soloist in Switzerland, Czechia, England, Ireland, Wales, France, and Canada This past season, she was a Quarterfinalist in Cedar Rapids Opera’s Esther and Myron Wilson Vocal Competition, returned to her signature role of Fricka (”Die Walküre”) with New Jersey Opera Theater, made her company debut with Parlando, sang Brangäne in Wagner’s Liebestod (”Tristan und Isolde”) with New York Dramatic Voices, and is a finalist with CEFNY. Helvick made her Carnegie Hall debut as the alto soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Händel’s Coronation Mass. Other concert highlights include Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Brahms’ Zigeunelieder, and Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder.
Soprano Hyune Kwon, based in New York City and originally from South Korea, is the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Metropolitan International Vocal Competition.
ABOUT RIVERSIDE OPERA COMPANY
In its 27th season, Riverside Opera Company (ROC), founded in 1996, is the longest-running and only opera company on Staten Island. ROC performs full and semi-staged productions with a full orchestra conducted by Alan Aurelia, who has conducted it in Italy and the U.S. Its singers are winners of open public auditions in New York City. ROC also provides yearly workshops for professional and emerging professional singers and free operas in the schools as educational outreach. https://www.facebook.com/riversideoperacompany