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South Florida Classical Review
2023-10-26 17:03:14
Maria Todaro has been named interim general director of Florida Grand […]
2019-07-19 00:53:00
HudsonValleyOne.com: Excerpts from Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" Aug. 3
Scott Joplin Hudson Valley One by Violet Snow July 12, 2019 African-American talent will be showcased in two operas at the tenth annual Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, August 2-4, in the Shandaken hamlet of Phoenicia [New York]. Damien Sneed, who led the previous Festival’s extraordinary gospel concert, conducts excerpts from Scott Joplin’s ragtime-influenced opera Treemonisha on Saturday afternoon, August 3. That night, Donizetti’s comedic Elixir of Love is set in an African village, featuring dancers and a drummer originally from West Africa. Outside of black companies such as Opera Noir and Opera Ebony, opportunities for African-Americans to sing the traditional repertoire can be hard to come by. However, Festival executive director Maria Todaro said, “We take whoever is knocking our socks off at auditions. We don’t care about the color of their skin.” Baritone Lawrence Craig, […]
2019-07-02 00:34:00
Chronogram.com: Damien Sneed in Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha," Phoenicia Festival Aug. 3
[…] which takes place the weekend of August 2-4, includes "Lady Parts: Music of the Abolition Movement" (August 3); "Music of the African Diaspora" (August 3-4); a production of Donizetti's "L'Elisir D'Amore (The Elixir of Love)" featuring an all-African American cast (August 3); and a program of excerpts from Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" reimagined by Houston Grand Opera composer-in-residence Damien Sneed. We spoke with the festival's general director, Maria Todaro about this year's programming. Phoeniciavoicefest.org. —Peter Aaron Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of the festival! What are some of the most significant ways that the event has changed and grown over its first decade? I would say the most important progress has been in our logistics. We've learned to become […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-08-24 15:14:07
Lucky 13 at Maverick
[…] the festival presented but one work to honor him. But Song of Solitude, a substantial 13 minute work for solo cello, full of variety and imagination, was entirely characteristic of the composer’s style. I don’t think this was one of the composer’s works which premiered at Maverick but it certainly belonged there. Cellist Emmanuel Feldman, who learned the music for this occasion, performed it fervently We go out of our way to hear mezzo-soprano Maria Todaro whenever she sings. Fresh from the success of her Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, Todaro sang the vocal part in the original chamber version of Falla’s El Amor Brujo, music written in 1915, the year the Maverick series began. Strangely, I had a little trouble hearing her in her first solo, but afterwards her throaty gypsy style powered across the hall, down and dirty and just right. Platt’s conducting was vigorous, his little ensemble […]
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