RESCHEDULED DUE TO CONNECTICUT COVID-19 REGULATIONS CT LYRIC OPERA PRODUCTION: A look at a XX century “socially distanced” love relationship via a telephone. date TBA Trinity-On-Main Arts Center date TBA Hartford Conductor: Adrian Sylveen Please note that due to the pandemic and Connecticut state COVID-19 regulations all dates and details […]
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May 2021 (DatesTBA)
Fri 6/11/21
Sun 6/13/21
VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
MUSIC INSPIRED BY NATURE
Friday, June 11, 7:30 New Britain Sunday, June 13, Hartford (details TBA) New Britain: Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61- incidental music Charles Fernandez: Oboe Concerto Mov I Hartford: Charles Fernandez: Oboe Concerto Mov II & III Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik J. S. Bach: […]
Read MorePUCCINI – LA BOHEME
CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA & THE VIRTUOSI – MAIN STAGE: PUCCINI – LA BOHEME July 2021 (Dates, Locations, and times TBA) Fully staged with the CT Lyric Opera: The production will also include young singers from the Virtuosi Academy in Hartford Program Cast to be announced at a later date, Stage […]
Read MoreJohann Strauss – Die Fledermaus
RESCHEDULED DUE TO CONNECTICUT COVID-19 REGULATIONS DATES TBA Cast: Charles Eaton, Daniel Kamalic, Jūratė Švedaitė -Waller, Maria Margiolakou, Rachel Abrams, Rebecca de Almeida, Spencer Hamlin Stage Director: Jan Mason, Music Director/Conductor: Adrian Sylveen
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POLISH STUDIES AT CCSU
Virtuosi Main Stage
Polish Rebirth of the XX Century
THE VIRTUOSI – MAIN STAGE – SPONSORED BY THE POLISH STUDIES AT CCSU: POLISH REBIRTH OF THE XX CENTURY Friday, March 5, 7:30 pm Trinity-On-Main Arts Center, New Britain Mieczysław Karłowicz – Serenade for Strings, Op. 2 Karol Szymanowski – String Symphony (String Quartet No.2, Op.56, arranged for the string […]
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VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
Best of True Romantics
February is the month of love, so how better to celebrate than with a concert featuring the work of three composers known for their deeply personal, expressive romantic touch: Tomaso Albinoni, Edvard Grieg, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. I am pleased to invite you to join us for “Best of the True Romantics: Masterworks […]
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VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
Christmas Concert
A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty
A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty on Sunday, December 27, at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain and Facebook Live at 5 p.m. (EST). Our featured guest artist will be Pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour. Now more than ever, we need music that warms the heart and helps keep feelings […]
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VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
Timeless Harmonies:
A Celebration of Bach Violin Masterpieces
The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra is pleased to present Timeless Harmonies: A Celebration of Bach Violin Masterpieces at the Trinity-On-Main Arts Center in New Britain on Sunday, November 29, at 3 p.m. For those who are unable to join us in person, we will broadcast the performance live on our […]
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Sun10/18/20
VIRTUOSI MAIN STAGE:
BY COMPOSER JOHNATHAN KANE
10/11 – 3 pm – Trinity – On Main – New Britain 10/18 – 6 pm – Cyril and Methodius Church – Hartford A concert commemorating the pain and suffering of all people caused by the COVID-19. A new piece commissioned by the Virtuosi from the Connecticut composer Jonathan Kane […]
Read MoreConnecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to present concert in memory of those lost to COVID-19 in October
This concert will include a classic work written during a time of crisis – Béla Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, a modernist energetic protest piece composed in response to the Nazi regime in Europe – and the world premiere of Stays the Year One Moment, a new work from Newington, […]
Read MoreORFEO ED EURIDICE by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Archive record)
Opera Baroque: “Orfeo ed Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck staged in collaboration with the Connecticut Lyric Opera’s Young Artist Program and with students and faculty of the Virtuosi Music Academy and Greve Opera Academy. – Guest Conductor – Giacomo Benedetti Stage Director – Alan Mann Rebecca […]
Read MoreMUSIC OF WIENIAWSKI, SZYMANOWSKI & Annual Polish Christmas with the Moniuszko Choir & Virtuosi Baroque Youth Ensemble
The Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies & Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra present: Karol Szymanowski – La Fontaine d’Arethuse, op. 30, Henry Wieniawski – Violin Concerto in d-minor, no. 2, Polish & English Christmas Carols Adrian Sylveen, violin, Moniuszko Choir, Virtuosi Baroque Youth Ensemble Hugh Keelan, guest […]
Read MoreNov. 8, 16, 17, 30 TRISTAN UND ISOLDE BY RICHARD WAGNER
Extraordinary Tristan und Isolde – “The love story that changed opera for ever” – An internationally acclaimed cast of singers performs one of the pinnacles of the operatic repertoire. The influential Tristan und Isolde is notable for Wagner’s use of chromaticism, tonal ambiguity, orchestral color, and harmonic suspension. More than a […]
Read MoreIsolde – Jenna Rae
Wherever Jenna Rae performs, there is beauty, rigor, generosity of emotion, and an unusual ability to connect. With her first performance of Isolde with TUNDI Productions in 2019, Jenna Rae received breathtaking accolades from critics, from colleagues, from Wagnerites who travel internationally for Wagner productions, and from attendees who possibly […]
Read MoreMET tenor Errin Brooks as TRISTAN
CLO Associate Artistic Director recently corresponded with cast members from our upcoming production of Tristan und Isolde to ask them some questions about their backgrounds, how they got involved in singing opera, and how they came to work with CLO. This article will feature three of our company members from the […]
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