Fri 5/19 @ 7:30PM
The Cleveland Composers Guild, a 50-year-old organization that promotes new music in Northeast Ohio, is celebrating the Year of the Voice in a concert collaboration with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
The evening will feature a series of opera scenes written by Northeast Ohio composers, including from Inna Onofrei’s Ara the Beautiful; Lorenzo Salvagni’s The Pilot; Jeffrey Quick’s The White Hen; Margi Griebling-Haigh’s The Higglers and Karen Griebling’s Richard III: A Crown of Roses, a Crown of Thorns.
The program features 13 singers including sopranos Anna O’Connell, Rachel Rose Lisl Wangermann and Abigail Williams; mezzo-sopranos Katniss Bi, Sandra Rose, Stephanie Smittle and Sue Wallin; tenor Mark Laseter; treble Alex Cosma; and baritones Brian Keith Johnson, Loren Reash-Henz and Jordy Vargas. Music director is Steven Smith; stage director is Marla Berg. It takes place at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music’s Gamble Auditorium.
Admission is free but donations at the door are welcome!
Berea, OH 44017
Berea, OH 44017