Raise YOUR voice in song!

Sing Along with UP

Sunday, November 6, 2011

2 pm

YM/YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

54 Nagle Avenue

Raise YOUR voice in song! Join us for a unique event melding the artistry of Underworld Productions Opera singers with voices from the community.  UP's special guests are seniors from the Y who have been singing along with UP throughout the Fall. Selections from Mozart, Bellini, Gounod, Gershwin, Porter, and Bernstein.

Take the “A” train to 190th Street. Exit through tunnel following signs for Bennett Avenue. Once you leave station, go left down small hill to intersection of Broadway and Nagle Avenue. Cross over Broadway and continue walking straight onto Nagle Avenue. The Y is ½ block on your left.

Or, take the “1” train to Dyckman Street. Exit down stairs and turn left onto Nagle Avenue. Go 4 blocks to the Y which is on your right side.

NOTE: Southbound #1 platform at Dyckman St is closed.  If you want to return via the #1, take the A train to 168th St. and transfer to the #1.

Many thanks to our sponsor, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Neighborhood Fund!

Shakespeare and Italy

Shakespeare-inspired vocal music in Italian and English

performed by
Resident Artists of Underworld Productions Opera

November 15, 2011

6:00 pm

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo

24 W. 12th Street

Last year's Resident Artist Concert at St. Anthony of Padua Church, November 20, 2010


Sung by Tara Bobiak, Pamela Stein, and Juliana Valente; with Barry Robinson, baritone,
Kostja Kostic, clarinet and Elizabeth Rodgers, piano.  Directed by Gina Crusco.

The program features music with Shakespeare and bard-inspired texts including Bellini’s

O quante volte, Britten’s Injurious Hermia, Full Fadom Five by Henry Papale, By Cupid’s Bow by Michael Dutka, and Orpheus with his Lute by Ben Yarmolinsky.

FREE admission with RSVP: underworldprod@gmail.com

FREE Weekly Teen Performing Arts Workshops

Underworld Productions offers FREE performing arts coaching with Jesse Cromer, a teaching artist equally at home with musical theatre and classical music.  Join Jesse in theatre games, improvisation, and vocal warm-ups every Monday night, 5:45 - 8 pm, at the Y of Washington Heights and Inwood, 54 Nagle Avenue.  To register, call Abraham Palma at 212-569-6200 x 249.

Jesse Cromer started his singing career in musical theatre, performing many roles around the Salem area.  A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Jesse has portrayed roles such as Lockit in the Beggar’s Opera, Dick McGann in Street Scene, and Cadmus in Semele, Scenes include Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Sir Tristan Mickleford in Martha.  Equally at home with concert repertoire, Jesse has been the baritone soloist for the Brahms Requiem with the West Village Chorale, Fauré Requiem with the Oregon Bach Festival, and Puccini’s Gloria with the Westchester Choral society.  Jesse performed the roles of Apollo in Handel's Apollo & Dafne, and The Senator in Yarmolinsky's Clarence & Anita, with Underworld Productions Opera.

WaHI Community Events

Meet us at the Mansion

Saturday, October 15, 2011

1 pm

Underworld Productions Opera Resident Artists sing at the

Morris-Jumel Mansion
65 Jumel Terrace at 160th Street

Join us for Verdi & Puccini arias and songs by Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and others, sung by five talented and diverse young artists.

Subway: C to 160th Street

Bus: M2 to 160th Street and Edgecombe Avenue; M3 or M18 to 160th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue; M101 to 161st Street and Amsterdam Avenue (walk one block east)

Workshop with Janet Gerson
Sunday, October 30, 2011
10 am - 12 noon

YM/YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

54 Nagle Avenue

(directions below)

Are you a closet performer who wants to come out?  Do you already perform but want to polish your skills?  This Underworld Productions workshop, led by Janet Gerson, is for you!  We will use theater, movement and voice improvisations to build your performance persona and technique.  Gain confidence by participating in a safe space to experiment, and realize your potential.

Janet Gerson is a master teacher, performer, presenter and consultant who has taught and presented worldwide.  Her affiliations include Underworld Productions Opera, Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory of NYC (TOPLAB), Pasos Peace Museum, and The Heights Center for the Arts (THCA).  A choreographer and dancer, she was Founder Director of Janet Gerson Dance Co. & Dance Stream, Inc.  She is currently Education Director, International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE).

Workshop Fee $12.  Call the Y at 212-569-6200 to register. 

Seniors Share the Stage

Sunday, November 6, 2011

2 pm

YM/YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood

54 Nagle Avenue

Join us for a unique event melding the artistry of Underworld Productions Opera singers with community sing-along.  The Y's seniors will be there to raise their voices in song along with you.

Take the “A” train to 190th Street. Exit through tunnel following signs for Bennett Avenue. Once you leave station, go left down small hill to intersection of Broadway and Nagle Avenue. Cross over Broadway and continue walking straight onto Nagle Avenue. The Y is ½ block on your left.

Or, take the “1” train to Dyckman Street. Exit down stairs and turn left onto Nagle Avenue. Go 4 blocks to the Y which is on your right side.

NOTE: Southbound #1 platform at Dyckman St is closed.  If you want to return via the #1, take the A train to 168th St. and transfer to the #1.

Save the Dates! November 15 & December 7, 2011

Recital by Resident Artists of

Underworld Productions Opera

November 15, 2011

6:30 pm

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo

24 W. 12th Street

Last year's Resident Artist Concert at St. Anthony of Padua Church, November 20, 2010

Annual Gala

December 7, 2011

6:30 pm

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo

24 W. 12th Street

Watch this space for more details!

El Reino de los Animales/The Animal Realm

Monday, June 27

7pm – 8pm

Isham Park Entrance near 215th St. and Park Terrace West (map)

Leave the city noise behind and enjoy the hum of summer music! 

 El Oso Panda -- Illustration by Manuel Servin

Bring blankets and lawn chairs and the whole family.  Selections include three songs from El Reino de los Animales (The Animal Realm) by Misha Dutka on poems by Elisa Gonzalez, sung in both English and Spanish by Lauren Alfano, soprano and Erik-Peter Mortensen, baritone.  Metropolitan Soloists woodwind quintet performs classical favorites and popular selections for a relaxing evening under the trees.

FREE!  Donations welcome.

INFO | RSVP: underworldprod@gmail.com

Apollo & Dafne + Clarence & Anita, June 8-9, 2011

 A double bill of Handel’s 1710 cantata

and the stage premiere of Ben Yarmolinsky’s 2010 opera

of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill story  

Apollo & Dafne + Clarence & Anita comprises a pair of operas separated by 300 years, contrasting yet thematically related. The archetypal story of Apollo’s aggression toward Dafne, her escape via metamorphosis, and the laurel wreath woven from her limbs, is revisited from multiple perspectives as American mythology. John Scott leads Sinfonia NY in the Handel; Mark Shapiro conducts the C&A Band in the Yarmolinsky. Gina Crusco directs.

 

Dafne -- Amelia Watkins, Soprano

Apollo -- Jesse Cromer, Baritone

Anita Hill -- Adrienne Danrich, Soprano

Clarence Thomas -- Anthony Turner, Baritone

Joe Biden -- William Ferguson, Tenor 

Two Performances Only!

June 8-9, 2011 at 8 pm

The Riverside Theatre

91 Claremont Avenue at 120th St.

Q&A with the composer at 7:30 pm

Box Office:  212-870-6784

 

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Venable Foundation