Schedule of Performances & Events Upcoming Performances & Events The New York Opera Project is Proud to Sponsor An Eric Halfvarson Master Class April 6, 3:00-6:00pm Hunter College School of Music Lang Hall, 4th Floor $20 General Admission $5 for Students with Hunter I.D. What's Been Going On April 25, 2007 Stabat Mater by Rossini March 24, 2007 NYOP Awards Concert March 22, 2007 Susannah by Carlisle Floyd Feb 17, 2007 Gala Fundrasing Event & Concert Sept 24, 2006 Hansel und Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck Nov 20, 2005 Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Dec 7, 2005 Amahl and the Night Visitors written by Gian Carlo Menotti April 3, 2005 Operatic Favorites with the Greenwich Village Orchestra at Washington Irving Auditorium Nov 7, 2004 Hansel und Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck May 16, 2004 Vanessa by Samuel Barber Nov 21, 2003 Salome by Richard Strauss Nov 9, 2003 A masterclass with Jane Bakken Klaviter

2007 has found The New York Opera Project (NYOP) at is most active time since becoming a 501c3 organization.

In the three years since we received our official non-profit status, NYOP has become an active player in the musical life of New York City. We began 2003 with very successful Master Classes at Hunter College given by Jane Klaviter, founder of the Bel Canto Institute and Prompter/Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. Next, we put our attention to a series of opera performances with the intent of showcasing excellent emerging talent, even as we reached out to diverse audiences throughout the New York City area. Since the Fall of 2003, NYOP gave distinctive performances of Salome by Richard Strauss, Vanessa by Samuel Barber and Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, all with casts which included singers from the Metropolitan Opera and from around the United States. In 2005, NYOP gave it’s first Gala Performance with the Greenwich Village Orchestra in a program of operatic arias and ensembles. In the Fall of 2005, NYOP presented an abridged, ‘dinner theater’ version of Don Giovanni by Mozart to great acclaim, in Scarsdale NY. Immediately following this success, NYOP performed Amahl and the Night Visitors with The Hunter Symphony with modified staging at the well known Hunter College Assembly Hall.

The culmination of several seasons of fundraising and work, the Amahl performance was NYOP’s first complete opera performance with Orchestra. Its well-attended and enthusiastic reception was extremely gratifying and our forward-thinking Board members and volunteers are looking forward to future performances in collaboration with Hunter College and several other interested organizations. Upcoming for 2006 is the presentation of the seldom-performed American opera, Susannah by Carlisle Floyd, Gianni Schicchi by Puccini and, for Spring 2007, the Stabat Mater of Rossini to be performed with full orchestra.

Our commitment to vocal excellence in the presentation of diverse vocal music, continues to grow.

We give our performances with different organizations and in various parts of New York City, to continue our mission to bring excellent singing and great vocal music to the ‘larger’ community. Our repertory ranges from Opera to Oratorio and includes solo concert work to expose both the singer and the public to the variety of vocal excellence possible within the professional singing world. We continue to present these works in their original languages with attention to the performance practices of the period and the intent of the composer.

Having established our company’s performance reputation in the past thirteen years, we continue to expand our activities into more varieties of Opera, Oratorio and Concert performances. The concert performances will include educational projects and lecture-concerts with innovative programming, in order to bring this changing form to a wider audience. NYOP continues to be interested in meaningful collaborations to enlarge or offering to the public. Gratified by your enthusiastic and positive response, we thank you for your continued support.