MANNES OPERA PRESENTS TWO EVENINGS OF OPERA SCENES WITH
ORCHESTRA ON JANUARY 9 AND 10, 2003 AT 7:30 PM
(New York, NY - December 4, 2002) The Mannes Opera program will present two evenings of semi-staged opera scenes accompanied by the Mannes Orchestra on Thursday, January 9 and Friday, January 10, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at Mannes College of Music, Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC. Admission is free, but seating is very limited, so reservations are recommended. For reservations, call Mannes Opera at (212) 712-1973. Mannes College of Music is a division of New School University. Joseph Colaneri is Artistic Director of the Mannes Opera.
Excerpts will be performed from these operas:
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Rossini's Le Comte Ory
Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment
Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglio
The Mannes Opera trains aspiring young professionals. Mannes College of Music features a superb artist faculty (including the renowned Master Artists-in-Residence Regina Resnik and Renata Scotto) and offers small, intimate classes to ensure close interaction among the faculty and students. Students in the Mannes Opera appear in fully staged opera productions and in workshop performances during the year.
The next presentation by the Mannes Opera will take place on May 10 and 11, 2003 when the program presents a fully-staged production of Puccini's La Bohème at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.
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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of
the world's major conservatories of music. A division of New School University,
Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional
Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica
von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon
Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean
of the College. For further information on Mannes, call (212) 580-0210 or go
to the Web site at www.mannes.edu.
New School University, with 7,000 matriculated students and 25,000 continuing education students, is a New York City university committed to critical scholarship, artistic integrity, and ethical responsibility in the social sciences, humanities, the arts and design. It is comprised of a liberal arts foundation of three schools: The New School, Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, and five professional schools: Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music, Actors Studio Drama School, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, and the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program. New School Online University offers one of the largest selections of online courses in the nation. For further information about admission to New School University, call (877) 5Ave-321 or go to the Web site at www.newschool.edu.