American Lyric Theater presents A Toast to Ten Years
7 – 9PM
American Lyric Theater presents A Toast to Ten Years, a wine tasting recital in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the company’s lauded Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP), on Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7pm at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Tickets are $125 ($50 tax-deductible) and $250 ($175 tax-deductible), and tables of four are available at $500 ($200 tax-deductible) and $1,000 ($700 tax-deductible).
Tickets may be purchased by calling 646.216.8298, or visiting www.altnyc.org/a-toast-to-ten-years
The event will be a wine tasting recital, during which attendees will have the opportunity to taste seven different wines that have been paired with excerpts from seven different operas developed by CLDP alumni, which have been produced across the country. The evening will be hosted by ALT’s founder and producing artistic director Lawrence Edelson with Heather Meyer, East Coast regional manager for Winemonger Imports.
The evening will include excerpts from:
Invisible Cities (Christopher Cerrone*) - world premiere at The Industry, LA, 2013, nominated for The Pulitzer Prize in Music
The Long Walk (Jeremy Howard Beck*/Stephanie Fleischmann*) - world premiere at Opera Saratoga, 2015
JFK (David T. Little/Royce Vavrek*) - world premiere at Fort Worth Opera, 2016
Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me? (Jeffrey Dennis Smith*/David Johnston* ) - concert premiere at (le) poisson rouge; world staged premiere at Urban Arias, 2018
Embedded (Patrick Soluri*/Deborah Brevoort*) - world premiere at Fargo Moorhead Opera, 2014
After the Storm (David Hanlon/Stephanie Fleischmann*) - world premiere at Houston Grand Opera, 2016
Thumbprint (Kamala Sankaram*/ Susan Yankowitz) - world premiere at the PROTOTYPE Festival, 2014
*indicates alumni of the CLDP
Featured singers will include soprano Caroline Worra, mezzo soprano Heather Johnson, tenor Daniel Curran, baritone John Tibbetts II, and bass baritone Adrian Rosas.Wines are provided by Wine Monger, an importer of fine wines from Austria, Italy, Germany and France. The event, which is presented in partnership with Magnvm Opus Tasting Concerts, will also feature a select silent auction/raffle.
Honorary Committee: Page Ashley, Brent Barton & Nikolay Zdravkov, Gail Chesler, Anna DeSimone, Laura Kempster, Stephen M. Weiner & Don Cornuet
“Over the past ten years, the Composer Librettist Development Program at ALT has been at the forefront of training the next generation of operatic writers,” said Edelson. “There is nothing more satisfying than to see our alumni out in the world, writing incredible new operas, and seeing those works produced around the country - by companies large and small - changing the landscape of contemporary opera. Our ‘Toast to Ten Years’ gives us a chance to celebrate some of the many successes of our alumni, and to look forward at what the future holds for the CLDP.”