With a title inspired by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s remark about an all-female Supreme Court, Lyric Opera of Kansas City celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The centerpiece of the program is the world premiere of a new song cycle by Laura Karpman and Kelley Rourke, using the writings and poetry of women’s suffrage leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This inspirational and celebratory program will also feature music about women, voting, and patriotism.

Back by popular demand: Lyric Opera Resident and Apprentice Artists celebrate the many moods of love with music of Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Meredith Willson, Duke Ellington, and more. Mark Markham returns as arranger/pianist, and Fenlon Lamb returns to direct an all-new, intimate evening of Cabaret.

The Grand Junction Symphony prides itself on selecting the finest artists through its Young Artist Competition each year.

The winner or winners from the final auditions on February 22, 2020 will be offered an opportunity to perform in the 2020-2021 season as soloist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra.

After winning First Prize at the 2019 Handel Aria Competition, Morgan Balfour will perform an hour long recital at Handel’s own parish church, St George’s in Hanover Square as part of the London Handel Festival with Ensemble Molière.

Musicians:
Morgan Balfour – soprano
Alice Earll – violin
Kate Conway – viola da gamba
Satoko Doi-Luck – harpsichord

Program:

Handel’s Rodelinda
Ho perduto il caro sposo
Spietati, io vi giurai
Se il mio duol non e si forte

Allegro in C minor HWV 408

Handel’s Saul
Capricious Man, in Humour Lost
Mean as he was… Author of Peace

Larghetto – Allegro from Sonata in G minor HWV 364b

Handel’s Solomon
Arrival of Queen of Sheba
Every sight these eyes behold
Will the sun forget to streak

Handel’s Cleopatra
Da tempeste il legno infranto

Deep in the shadows of the Colorado Rockies, nestled between the middle of nowhere and miles from where anyone can hear you scream, waits the Overlook Hotel. For its new caretakers, the Torrance family, the only thing more unnerving than their profound seclusion is the realisation that they are not the hotel’s only guests. The young son with a sixth sense endures the house of horrors as his father faces demons – past and present, real and remembered – that ultimately turn him into a monster. What started as a desperate search for financial and marital sanctuary, spirals into a terrifying struggle for sanity and survival. With music as haunting as the story is tragic, only through opera does The Shining reach more frightening depths than ever before. The Shining will be sung in English, with English subtitles. Approximate running time is 2 hours, 15 minutes with one intermission.

Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Director: Eric Simonson
Jack Torrance: Edward Parks
Wendy Torrance: Kelly Kaduce
Dick Halloran: Aubrey Allicock 
Mark Torrance: Malcolm MacKenzie 
Lloyd the Bartender: Roger Honeywell 
Delbert Grady: Joseph Leppek 
Mrs. Grady: Morgan Balfour 
Mrs. Massey: Kelly Birch 
Horace Derwent: Schyler Vargas
The Senator: Seungyun Kim 

Performances:
April 25th – 7:30pm
April 29th – 7:30pm
May 1st – 7:30pm
May 3rd – 2:00pm

Deep in the shadows of the Colorado Rockies, nestled between the middle of nowhere and miles from where anyone can hear you scream, waits the Overlook Hotel. For its new caretakers, the Torrance family, the only thing more unnerving than their profound seclusion is the realisation that they are not the hotel’s only guests. The young son with a sixth sense endures the house of horrors as his father faces demons – past and present, real and remembered – that ultimately turn him into a monster. What started as a desperate search for financial and marital sanctuary, spirals into a terrifying struggle for sanity and survival. With music as haunting as the story is tragic, only through opera does The Shining reach more frightening depths than ever before. The Shining will be sung in English, with English subtitles. Approximate running time is 2 hours, 15 minutes with one intermission.

Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Director: Eric Simonson
Jack Torrance: Edward Parks
Wendy Torrance: Kelly Kaduce
Dick Halloran: Aubrey Allicock 
Mark Torrance: Malcolm MacKenzie 
Lloyd the Bartender: Roger Honeywell 
Delbert Grady: Joseph Leppek 
Mrs. Grady: Morgan Balfour 
Mrs. Massey: Kelly Birch 
Horace Derwent: Schyler Vargas
The Senator: Seungyun Kim 

Performances:
April 25th – 7:30pm
April 29th – 7:30pm
May 1st – 7:30pm
May 3rd – 2:00pm

Founded in 2006 and directed by Dr. Paul Flight, Berkeley based Chora Nova presents Vivaldi’s Gloria, RV 589 and Dixit Dominus, RV 594.

Conductor: Paul Flight
Soprano: Morgan Balfour

The Carmel Bach Festival 36th annual Vocal Master Class is comprised of Morgan Balfour, soprano; Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano; Jacob Perry, tenor; and Ryne Cherry, baritone

The quartet will come to Carmel in July to train with Festival artists, and explore ways to communicate Baroque repertoire more vividly. In a light-hearted atmosphere of discovery, the VBA Master Class participants experience a wealth of vocal music and examine all aspects of style, technique, communication, language, performance skills, and artistry.

The Master Classes are held July 13, 16, 20, 23, at the Carmel Presbyterian Church, and July 27 and 30 at the Sunset Center, from noon to 2:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.

The VBA showcase is August 1 at the All Saints Church.

The Carmel Bach Festival 36th annual Vocal Master Class is comprised of Morgan Balfour, soprano; Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano; Jacob Perry, tenor; and Ryne Cherry, baritone

The quartet will come to Carmel in July to train with Festival artists, and explore ways to communicate Baroque repertoire more vividly. In a light-hearted atmosphere of discovery, the VBA Master Class participants experience a wealth of vocal music and examine all aspects of style, technique, communication, language, performance skills, and artistry.

The Master Classes are held July 13, 16, 20, 23, at the Carmel Presbyterian Church, and July 27 and 30 at the Sunset Center, from noon to 2:00 pm. These events are free and open to the public.

The VBA showcase is August 1 at the All Saints Church.

Instead of holding the 8th annual Handel Aria Competition this year, there will be an online benefit for the singers who were finalists during the first seven years. This festive program, hosted by artistic director Sarah Brailey, will air on Facebook, YouTube and the website: www.handelariacompetition.com. It will feature videos of talented past finalists singing Handel and other Baroque opera composers and includes a variety of creative performances from virtual selfie duets, to jazz arrangements of Purcell, to Handel accompanied on ukelele!

Madison Bach Musicians will start their season with a tribute to the poise, wit, and irrepressible joy of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Though the two composers came from very different musical and socio-economic backgrounds—Haydn, lower working class, rural, musical but untrained; Mozart, urban, solid middle class, musically trained, sophisticated, and ambitious―both managed to carve out successful careers in the fertile musical culture of Vienna and its environs.

Soprano Morgan Balfour―who astonished the 2019 Handel Aria Competition audience with her first-prize performance―will return to Madison to perform selections from Haydn’s English Canzonetta’s and Mozart’s fabulously concise songs and arias.

The program will cover a vast emotional range, from the opening violin & fortepiano dialog—Mozart’s pensive and lyrical Sonata in E minor–to his ebullient Trio in G major, to his inimitable songs, through to Haydn’s convivial violin and cello duo, to his ardent and sometimes naughty songs, and concluding with his uproarious Trio in C major!

As a result of public health guidelines in response to Covid-19 that do not allow for an in-person audience, we will live stream our concert from Grace Episcopal Church on Saturday evening for at-home viewing.  The event will begin with a pre concert talk by Trevor Stephenson, and after the concert, the musicians will remain on stage to answer questions submitted by our audience.  Sunday we will rebroadcast the Saturday evening recording and follow that with a live question and answer session with our musicians from their homes.  After purchasing tickets for $15 per household, you will be sent a link to access the performance.

Madison Bach Musicians will start their season with a tribute to the poise, wit, and irrepressible joy of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Though the two composers came from very different musical and socio-economic backgrounds—Haydn, lower working class, rural, musical but untrained; Mozart, urban, solid middle class, musically trained, sophisticated, and ambitious―both managed to carve out successful careers in the fertile musical culture of Vienna and its environs.

Soprano Morgan Balfour―who astonished the 2019 Handel Aria Competition audience with her first-prize performance―will return to Madison to perform selections from Haydn’s English Canzonetta’s and Mozart’s fabulously concise songs and arias.

The program will cover a vast emotional range, from the opening violin & fortepiano dialog—Mozart’s pensive and lyrical Sonata in E minor–to his ebullient Trio in G major, to his inimitable songs, through to Haydn’s convivial violin and cello duo, to his ardent and sometimes naughty songs, and concluding with his uproarious Trio in C major!

As a result of public health guidelines in response to Covid-19 that do not allow for an in-person audience, we will live stream our concert from Grace Episcopal Church on Saturday evening for at-home viewing.  The event will begin with a pre concert talk by Trevor Stephenson, and after the concert, the musicians will remain on stage to answer questions submitted by our audience.  Sunday we will rebroadcast the Saturday evening recording and follow that with a live question and answer session with our musicians from their homes.  After purchasing tickets for $15 per household, you will be sent a link to access the performance.

Morgan Balfour (soprano) and Trevor Stephenson (Fortepiano) present a program of Mozart, Haydn and Schubert songs.