August 25, 2024 – March 1, 2024
Aug 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Aug 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Jul 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Jul 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Jul 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Jul 2024
SPEARS & SMITH - Michele in The Righteous WORLD PREMIERE
Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe
Faith. Power. Ambition.
David struggles to reconcile spiritual humility with ambition. His desire for more wreaks havoc on his family, friendships and, perhaps, his own faith. His journey from preacher to Governor, like the lives of those closest to him, is shaped by the current affairs of the 1980s.
Jun 2024
VERDI - Emilia in Otello
Kennedy Center • Washington
Experience the thunderous music of Otello in the hands of our opera-loving Music Director, Gianadrea Noseda. Verdi’s score offers a thrilling exploration of uncontrolled human emotion at its most extreme. Hailed as a pinnacle of Italian operatic repertoire, Verdi’s transformation of the Shakespeare play was described by The New York Times as an “ascent towards a higher musical plane” following its 1887 premiere.
Jun 2024
VERDI - Emilia in Otello
Kennedy Center • Washington
Experience the thunderous music of Otello in the hands of our opera-loving Music Director, Gianadrea Noseda. Verdi’s score offers a thrilling exploration of uncontrolled human emotion at its most extreme. Hailed as a pinnacle of Italian operatic repertoire, Verdi’s transformation of the Shakespeare play was described by The New York Times as an “ascent towards a higher musical plane” following its 1887 premiere.
May 2024
NEIKRUG - A Song by Mahler
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center • Philadelphia
A love song by Gustav Mahler is at the center of this probing new work by eminent pianist and composer Marc Neikrug. Liebst du um Schönheit (“If You Love for the Sake of Beauty”), from Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, is “a key element to the drama,” Neikrug says, and, as it “embodies the message of love as an aspiration, a self-embodied posture, and a state of being,” it speaks to the emotional core of the work as well. A Song by Mahler centers on the changing realities of two characters: a concertizing singer who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s and her husband, who is also her accompanist. This work of music theater “is not an attempt at documenting the myriad aspects of the disease,” Neikrug says. Instead, it’s “an attempt to address the specific emotional evolution of this couple, touching on their love and their particular relationship to music.”
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Ryan Bradford, baritone; David Shifrin, clarinet; FLUX Quartet
Neikrug: A Song by Mahler Philadelphia Premiere
May 2024
WAGNER - Schwertleite in Die Walküre
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center • Dallas
FABIO LUISI Conductor
SARA JAKUBIAK Sieglinde
CHRISTOPHER VENTRIS Siegmund
STEPHEN MILLING Hunding
MARK DELAVAN Wotan
DENIZ UZUN Fricka
LISE LINDSTROM Brünnhilde
MARCY STONIKAS Gerhilde
MIRIAM CLARK Ortlinde
DENIZ UZUN Waltraute
JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO Schwertleite
KIM-LILLIAN STREBEL Helmwige
SUN-LY PIERCE Siegrune
RENÉE TATUM Grimgerde
MELODY WILSON Rossweisse
ALBERTO TRIOLA stage director
May 2024
WAGNER - Schwertleite in Die Walküre
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center • Dallas
FABIO LUISI Conductor
SARA JAKUBIAK Sieglinde
CHRISTOPHER VENTRIS Siegmund
STEPHEN MILLING Hunding
MARK DELAVAN Wotan
DENIZ UZUN Fricka
LISE LINDSTROM Brünnhilde
MARCY STONIKAS Gerhilde
MIRIAM CLARK Ortlinde
DENIZ UZUN Waltraute
JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO Schwertleite
KIM-LILLIAN STREBEL Helmwige
SUN-LY PIERCE Siegrune
RENÉE TATUM Grimgerde
MELODY WILSON Rossweisse
ALBERTO TRIOLA stage director
Apr 2024
WAGNER - Wesendonck Lieder
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church • Washington
The Apollo Orchestra
David Chan, Conductor
ALBINONI Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ
Julie Vidrick Evans, Organ
WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder
Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo Soprano
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68
Mar 2024
BACH - BWV 170, "Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust"
Miller Theater • New York City
PROGRAM
J.S. BACH Trio Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV 529 (c. 1730)
J.S. BACH Cantata in D major Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 (1726)
J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 (1718)
J.S. BACH Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 (1717-23)
PERFORMERS
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo soprano
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Rebecca Fischer, violin
Simone Dinnerstein, piano and artistic director
Mar 2024
RAVEL and ROREM - Brooklyn Chamber Music Society
First Unitarian Church • Brooklyn
Bach: Flute sonata in B minor, BWV 1030
Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for cello and piano
Ravel: Chansons madécasses (Madagascan Songs) for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello and piano
Rorem: Trio for flute, cello and piano
Rorem: Song selections TBD
Haydn: Trio for flute, cello, and piano in G major, Hob. XV:15
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Angela Park, cello
Molly Morkoski, piano