Special Events
Concerts and Recitals

Death by Aria
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 8 pm
Tickets: $20
An evening of popular arias performed by Dicapo’s Resident Artists.
Read a review of 2006-07 season's Death by Aria.

Cristiana Pegoraro, pianist
Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:00 pm
Tickets: $20
Acclaimed as one of the most gifted musicians of her generation, Italian-born pianist Cristiana Pegoraro has consistently entertained and enlightened audiences with her inspired performances and original programming. Dicapo Opera Theatre is proud to present her in a solo piano recital.

Yuletide Classics
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 for Children
Dicapo Opera Theatre celebrates the Christmas holidays featuring the Dicapo Children’s Chorus and the company’s Resident Artists. The program will take place at Dicapo Opera Theatre, 184 East 76th Street at Lexington Avenue.

Lily (World premiere)
Friday and Saturday, January 16 &17, 2009, 8:00 pm
Audrey Babcock, Mezzo-Soprano
Ray Fellman, Music Director/Pianist
Tickets: $30
Lily is a monodrama, conceived,written, and sung by mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock. The production is inspired by and features the music of Kurt Weill. It incorporates visual and sound designs and tells the story of Lily Weiss, a German Jew beatendown by the war, who survives as a prostitute/cabaret singer. Audrey Babcock performed the role of Thérèse in the New York premiere of the Tobias Picker opera Thérèse Raquin in her Dicapo Opera Theatre debut.

Vittorio Giannini’s Beauty and the Beast
Saturday, January 24, 2009, 11:00 am
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 11:00 am
Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 for Children
Dicapo Opera Theatre reprises its production of the famous children’s fairy tale about the power of love, featuring Dicapo Opera’s Resident Artists.

Composer Retrospective
Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
A Concert featuring members of the Resident Artist program
Tickets: $20
A evening of arias and scenes celebrating the firstAmerican operas commissioned by the Metropolitan Operaduring 1908 to 1935, the golden era of Met Director GiulioGatti-Casazza, with the financial backing of his visionarypatron Otto H. Kahn. The evening will include selections byHoratio Parker (Mona), Deems Taylor (The King’sHenchmanand Peter Ibbetson), Louis Gruenberg (The Emperor Jones), Howard Hanson (Merry Mount) and Victor Herbert (Madeleine), performed by Dicapo’s Resident Artists. This is the second of an annual series of composer retrospectives. The first took place last seasonand featured music by Tobias Picker.

Rossini's La Cenerentola
Saturday, March 21, 2009, 11:00 am
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 11:00 am
Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 for Children
A one-hour version of the Rossini opera adapted for children and performed in English.

Resident Artist Cabaret
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8:00 pm
Tickets: $20
Dicapo Opera Theatre Resident Artists perform some of the great non-operatic melodies of our time.

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