Please join us for a delightful evening of operatic scenes!

Musical Preparation & Pianist: Pei-Wen Chen

Director: Colter Schoenfish

SCENES 

Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Susanna/Marcellina

Duet: Qin Li, Celine Juhyung Lee

Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, duet "Ah, guarda sorella"

So Hee Kim, Xuanduo Chen

Three Decembers, Duet

Ruby Pine, Pablo Giraldo

Mozart's La clemenza di Tio, Trio

Tianbo Feng, Ping Gu, Thomasluke Florez-Mansi

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Trio

Shimingui Zheng

Thomasluke Florez-Mansi

Tianbo Feng

Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Trio "Ah perdono"

Tianbo Feng

Jiwon You

Ping Gu 

Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Duet "Via resti servita"

Alexandria Hunter, Kore Adachi

Mozart's Matrimonio Segreto, Trio

Zhixi Chen

Xiaoya Jiang

Catherine McClure

 
Les Contes d’Hoffmann Barcarole 

Fang He, Tiffany Ye

Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Duet "Ah, guarda sorella"

Ping Gu, Jiwon You

 
Libiamo from Traviata

 Tutti

MANNES OPERA

Under the leadership of Managing Artistic Director Emma Griffin, Mannes Opera is a dynamic training program for operatic artists, marked by a curiosity for new and a devotion to craft. The program utilizes opera as a medium for exploration, improvisation, and creation, providing students with extensive performance opportunities and practice.

 
Recent notable productions include Grace McLean’s In the Green, Cavall’s La Calisto, Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Die Zauberflöte, Rachel J. Peter’s Mermaid in the Jar, and Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens.  With our commitment to developing and supporting new opera, we have workshopped Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s The Listeners, Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s The Righteous (in collaboration with Santa Fe Opera), and David T. Little’s Agamemnon (in collaboration with Theatre for a New Audience).

Our mission is to empower students to become versatile and self-assured professional artists, equipped with the skills and agency to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of the performing arts. Mannes Opera is committed to fostering artistic excellence and innovation, guided by the rich traditions of the past and a bold vision for the future.

Mannes Opera’s 2024/25 Season opens with a jewel box production of Don Giovanni realized by Griffin and Mannes faculty member Cris Frisco, presented in a crisp 100 minutes, on October 18 and 19. The Opera in Concert double bill on November 8 and 9 features works by Mannes faculty members and prolific composers, David T. Little (Vinkensport, or the Finch Opera, New York City premiere) and Kamala Sankaram (The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace), directed by New School Drama alum Alison Pogolrec. On March 7 and 8, Mannes Opera presents Handel’s Alcina at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, directed by Sam Helfrich and conducted by Mannes alumnus Geoffrey MacDonald. On May 9, Mannes Opera gives a workshop presentation of Hildegard, a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider, in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects.

 
We look forward to seeing you!