David Pershall
Opera and Broadway music aficionados have the opportunity to attend a performance by world-class opera singers, baritone David Pershall and mezzo soprano Krysty Swann at VIEW, the arts center in Old Forge, on Thursday, August 20.
Pershall, a Temple, TX native, recently returned to the states after performing the part of Rodrigo in Don Carlo at the Austrian Opera Festival, Oper Burg Gars. Continue reading
David Pershall
Baritone David Pershall and Mezzo-Soprano Krysty Swann will be accompanied by Arthur McManus in a memorable evening of great opera and Broadway hits at VIEW, the arts center in Old Forge, on Thursday, August 20.
David Pershall was recently featured in Voix des Arts “Best Artists of 2014” and praised for “[dispatching] his smooth, evenly produced lyric baritone with elegance and style” in Opera News.
His latest performances in the U.S. were at Minnesota Opera, as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Washington National Opera, as Papageno in The Magic Flute, and at Carnegie Hall, as Lord Nottingham in Roberto Devereux for which he was hailed as “passionate and resonant” by The New York Times. Continue reading
Opera Tenor Luigi Boccia and Heather Gallagher, Mezzo Soprano
Broadway Meets Opera will be presented at View on Thursday, August 18, at 7 p.m., featuring opera tenor, Luigi Boccia and mezzo soprano, Heather Gallagher.
They will be accompanied by pianist, Arthur McManus.
Deke Morrison of Old Forge, a member of the Board of Directors at View, was impressed by their performance in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro that was presented by Vero Beach Opera in Florida in February, and he arranged for the trio to come to the Adirondacks to perform at Gould Hall at View.
“I attended their concert, and I had the crazy idea that I might be able to get one of them to come up here to perform,” Morrison said.
At a dinner following the concert, Morrison asked one of his friends how he might be able to arrange for someone of their quality to come to Old Forge this summer. His friend said, “Just go ask them.”
“I did, and they said, yes!” Morrison said.
Opera Tenor Luigi Boccia and Heather Gallagher, Mezzo Soprano accompanied by Pianist Arthur McManus