MasterVoices
Presents

February 3, 2025 at 7:30PM
February 4, 2025 at 7:30PM
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall (Shops at Columbus Circle/Broadway at 60th Street, NYC)

This inspiring new 90-minute opera follows the Ohio Innocence Project’s efforts to overturn the convictions of six men, women, and teens who were wrongly imprisoned for violent crimes they didn’t commit.

October 29, 2024 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Get ready for another Gershwin powerhouse! This rarely performed gem kicked off a masterful trio that came to include OF THEE I SING (performed by MasterVoices in 2017) and LET ‘EM EAT CAKE (2019). Expect soaring melodies, infectious syncopation, and a healthy dose of silliness!

By Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie

April 17, 2024 at 7:30PM | Carnegie Hall

Experience a powerful operatic adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” featuring music by Ricky Ian Gordon and a libretto by Michael Korie.

By George Frideric Handel and Nico Bentley

March 22, 2024 at 7:30PM
March 23, 2024 at 7:30PM
NYU Skirball

Conceived and choreographed by Doug Varone, To My Arms / Restore combines Handel’s music with modern twists. Presented in two parts: one with dancers and Handel’s arias, followed by a choral masterpiece performance, mixed with electronic DJ’ing by Nico Bentley.

By Stephen Sondheim , Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane

November 3, 2023 at 8:00PM
November 4, 2023 at 2:00PM
November 4, 2023 at 7:30PM
Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Dive into a world at war, where the extraordinary Dionysos seeks the ultimate playwright. In this enchanting comedy, witness as one poet strives to save a culture on the brink of destruction. Descend into Hades to witness one of Stephen Sondheim’s rare masterpieces, featuring the mesmerizing love ballad “Ariadne.”

By Arthur S. Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert

May 3, 2023 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

IOLANTHE’s battle of the sexes pits members of Britain’s House of Lords against the Fairy Queen and her kin. Our production will honor “one of Sullivan’s finest scores” (The New York Times) with lush orchestration and top vocal talent from the worlds of opera and Broadway.

March 23, 2023 at 7:30PM | Central Synagogue

Join us for a spiritually inclusive, gratitude-themed concert featuring Ernest Bloch’s SACRED SERVICE and Kurt Weill’s KIDDUSH, as well as the world premiere of a newly commissioned piece by Jerusalem-born composer Daniel Rein.

October 25, 2022 at 8:00PM | Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

Our intimate and lyrical English-language production of CARMEN is back! Originally scheduled for March 2020, director Sammi Cannold helms a new cast including Ginger Costa-Jackson as Carmen, Mikaela Bennett as Micaëla, and John Brancy as Escamillo. Sung in its original Opéra Comique version, with dialogue rather than recitative, our production marks the NY Premiere of this dramatic translation – written by Broadway legend Sheldon Harnick

June 8, 2022 at 7:00PM | Waterline Square Park

This effervescent evening is designed to delight your senses – think balmy breezes, atmospheric surroundings, and a lush score that brings the sounds of summer to life. From the fairy forests of Felix Mendelssohn to the porch swings of Samuel Barber, this outdoor serenade will feature the MasterVoices Chorus and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, with vocalists Shereen Pimentel and Tariq Al-Sabir

By Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents

March 10, 2022 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Better than buried treasure! Come rediscover a madcap, provocative, and weirdly romantic gem, Anyone Can Whistle, from the legendary Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents.

May 26, 2021 at 6:30PM | Public Premiere

The fourth and final chapter, FAITH, explores the possibility of finding fulfillment through the possibility of finding fulfillment through belief in something bigger.

March 1, 2019 at 8:00PM | Alice Tully Hall - Lincoln Center

Welcome to the intimate art of the part-song, a popular form of 19th century harmony most often sung around a loved one’s parlor piano. Night Songs and Love Waltzes showcases three compositional masters of this lost tradition – Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms – as well as brand new music from contemporary composer Ricky Ian Gordon. The evening will conclude with a specially arranged suite of waltzes from Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. What better way to embrace the coming spring than with this joyous and romantic celebration of shared song?

By Marisa Michelson and Royce Vavrek

June 17, 2018 at 7:00PM | Free Concert | Rockefeller Park, entrance at Warren Street and River Terrace

This dramatic oratorio by composer Marisa Michelson and librettist Royce Vavrek tells the story of Noah’s Ark from the perspective of Noah’s wife, Naamah, who cares for the diverse species of animals on the Ark and guides them as they reach dry land. From the birds to the hippos, each group has its own concerns. Can they learn to live together after the crisis has passed? Inspired by the resilience of communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, this Father’s Day performance of Naamah’s Ark features community members from Lower Manhattan, the MasterVoices Chorus, and leading lady Victoria Clark, under the direction of Tony Award-winning conductor Ted Sperling.

Produced in collaboration with the River To River Festival, presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), and Battery Park City Authority, this event is free and open to the public.

By Johann Sebastian Bach

February 9, 2017 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

MasterVoices performs Bach’s magnificent choral masterpiece St John Passion in a new English translation, featuring an impressive cast of rising stars and period instrument orchestra New York Baroque Incorporated.

By Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate

April 28, 2016 at 7:00PM
April 29, 2016 at 7:00PM
New York City Center

Tony Award winners Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark star in a semi-staged version of Henry Purcell’s tempestuous Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas, led by Ted Sperling.

May 11, 2012 at 7:00PM | St. Bartholomew's Church

Contemporary Voices features five musical gems by 20^th and 21^st Century masters of choral composition.The sanctuary of St. Bartholomew’s Church providing a beautiful setting for this music, conducted by The Chorale’s Music Director James Bagwell.

By Gioachino Rossini

November 30, 2011 at 8:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Music Director James Bagwell will conduct The Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony Orchestra with legendary bass-baritone James Morris, 2011 Richard Tucker Award Winner Angela Meade and renowned soloists Kyle Ketelsen, Eric Cutler and Marina Rebekain this opera-in-concert presentation.

By Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson

January 25, 2011 at 8:00PM
January 26, 2011 at 8:00PM
Alice Tully Hall

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson teamed up for the first time to create this delightful romantic comedy.  First performed in 1938 with Walter Huston in the role of Peter Stuyvesant, the work is one of Weill’s deft hybrid theater pieces which lies somewhere between operetta and musical theater, and also contains bits of political satire.