Professional Women Singers Association
presents
Interpretation: Where Singer and Composer Meet
A Master Class by Neal Goren,
Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of
Gotham Chamber Opera
Sunday, April 26th, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Mannes Opera Studio
37 West 65th Street, 3rd Floor
New York City
Neal Goren has conducted throughout the U. S. and in Europe. For Gotham Chamber Opera he conducted critically acclaimed productions of Haydn’s L’Isola disabitata, Mozart’s Il sogno di Scipione, Milhaud’s Les Malheurs d’Orphée, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (with period instruments), Martinu’s Hlas lesa and Les Larmes du couteau, Sutermeister’s Die schwarze Spinne, Handel’s Arianna in Creta, Britten’s Albert Herring, Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, and Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires. He led Gotham Chamber Opera’s co-production of Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco for Spoleto Festival USA and the Lincoln Center Festival in the summer of 2005, and conducted Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for Angers Opera (France) and Opéra de Nantes for the reopening of Théâtre Graslin in February, 2004. He made his New York City Opera debut conducting The Magic Flute in November, 2003 and conducted Krasa’s Brundibar for CUNY. He has participated in numerous PBS telecasts including Pavarotti Plus! and the Richard Tucker Memorial Concerts. As a recital accompanist, Neal Goren has performed with Leontyne Price (as her exclusive musical collaborator), Kathleen Battle, Harolyn Blackwell, Haken Hagegard, Thomas Hampson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Aprile Millo, Hermann Prey and others. He has been a member of the faculty of the graduate opera department of the Mannes College of Music since 1992 and served on the Board of Directors of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation from 1991-2003. In addition, he has served as a panelist for Opera America symposiums, a guest on the Metropolitan Opera Quiz and a juror for numerous vocal competitions, and has given master classes in colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Admission Free for PWSA members
$15.00 for non-members who wish to audit
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