Opera Wilmington presents a special evening:
The inaugural Caterina Jarboro Memorial Recital, featuring guest artist Joshua Conyers, baritone
Featuring a special performance by the chorus of Snipes Academy of Arts and Design, directed by Christa Faison.
PROGRAM
Snipes Academy of Arts & Design chorus, directed by
Christa Faison
Byron Marshall, piano
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Give Us Hope
Joshua Conyers, baritone
Elizabeth Loparits, piano
Alessandro Scarlatti: Già il sole dal Gange
Francesco Durante: Vergin, tutto amor
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Virgil Thomson: A Prayer to Saint Catherine
Samuel Barber: I Hear an Army
Charles Ives: Tom Sails Away
George Butterworth: The Lads in Their Hundreds
Giuseppe Verdi: “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata,” from
Rigoletto
Hall Johnson, arranger: Witness
Hall Johnson, arranger: Ride on King Jesus
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joshua
Conyers, baritone, has been praised by Opera
News for his “deliciously honeyed baritone that would seduce anyone” and
The New York Times for having “a sonorous baritone” that “wheedled and
seduced.” A native of the Bronx, NY, Conyers is quickly being championed for
his captivating performances as he continues to be recognized as one of the
promising young dramatic voices of today. Equally active in contemporary opera,
Conyers covered the roles of Mr. Umeya in the American premiere of Huang Ruo's
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in Mandarin and Walt
Whitman in the world premiere of Theodore Morrison's Oscar, both with the Santa Fe Opera.
Conyers
is a member of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program
for the 2018-2019 season, a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. Conyers's roles will include Giorgio Germont in La traviata (Domingo-Cafritz Young
Artist Performance), British Major in Silent
Night, Donkey in The Lion, The
Unicorn, and Me, and Zaretsky in Eugene
Onegin. Conyers will be performing Le Roi Marc in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé, a collaboration with Wolf
Trap Opera and Washington Concert Opera in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, Conyers
fulfilled two seasons of residence in the Benenson Young Artist Program at Palm
Beach Opera, performing Yamadori in Madama
Butterfly, Marullo in Rigoletto,
Sciarrone in Tosca, Captain in Candide, and covering the Conte Almaviva
in Le nozze di Figaro. Conyers joined
the Glimmerglass Festival in the summer of 2017 to cover the roles of Porgy in Porgy and Bess and Eustachio in
Donizetti's rarely performed L'assedio di
Calais. In the summer of 2018 he joined Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Young
Artist to perform Monterone and to also cover the title role in Rigoletto, perform Count Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, and to be the
baritone soloist in Bernstein’s Songfest,
a performance with the National Orchestral Institute which will be recorded by
Naxos Records.
As a
concert artist, Conyers made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 as the baritone
soloist performing Mozart’s Regina Cœli,
K. 276, Vaughn Williams’s Serenade to
Music, and Mark Hayes’s Te Deum. Conyers
made his debut at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2018 as
the baritone soloist in Maurice Duruflé's Requiem
with Manhattan Concert Productions under the baton of world-renowned conductor
Anton Armstrong. Conyers opened the 2017-18 season in a gala performance with
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Additional concert and oratorio credits
include Bach's St. Matthew Passion
(as Peter and Pilate) with the Utah Festival Opera, Bach's Magnificat and Gleichwie der
Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt (BWV 18), Handel's Messiah with the Mozart Club in Winston Salem (NC) and the
Fayetteville Orchestra, Brahms's Deutsches
Requiem and Neues Liebesliederwalzer,
Fauré's Requiem, and Vaughan
Williams's Dona nobis pacem. Recently
Mr. Conyers has performed Carmina Burana with the University of North Carolina
School of the Arts and has appeared on Methodist University's Friends of Music
Guest Artist Series as recitalist and masterclass teacher.
TICKETS
- $30 general public (per person)
- $15 UNCW faculty and staff
- $6 students with valid UNCW ID
Tickets are also available at the UNCW Box Office, located in Kenan Auditorium: 910.962.3500
Any remaining tickets may be purchased at the Cultural Arts Building Box Office, starting at 6:30 on Friday, Feb. 22.
Please see the website for information about Opera Symposium events on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Co-sponsored by the UNCW Department of Music, Office of the
Arts and the Office of Community Engagement.
Opera Wilmington is the resident opera company of the
University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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Directions to Beckwith Recital Hall:
Plenty of free parking, in front of the Cultural Arts Building and across the street.
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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC CONCERT GUIDELINES FOR UNCW STUDENTS
Arrive on time
• Arrive at the concert venue at least 10 minutes before the posted concert time. If you need to get a ticket at the box office, have your UNCW student ID ready and arrive at least another 5 sooner.
• The box office will only be open for ticket sales and distribution to students up until 15 minutes after the performance begins.
• Students arriving 5 minutes after the start time of the event will not be admitted free with their UNCW ID card, and must purchase tickets in order to be admitted. If the box office has closed, students will not be admitted into the venue.
Concert attendance and program stamping
Programs for students registered in Department of Music classes are stamped by the ushers at the end of the performance.
• If you leave before the concert ends, your program will not be stamped.
• If ushers should run out of programs, ask them to stamp your ticket stub at the end of the concert. Let your teacher know what happened.
Use of electronic devices during performances
• use of computers, tablets, phones is not allowed during performances. Anyone using an electronic device will be asked to put it away. Noncompliance may result in being asked to leave the event.