Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr. will be joined by soprano Michelle Trainor for an afternoon of opera arias, duets and songs. You won’t want to miss this event.
Experience the North Shore’s beloved holiday tradition as it returns for its third year at the picturesque Hammond Castle Museum – Christmas at the Castle! Immerse yourself in the enchanting ambiance of the season with the Firebird Pops’ sublime string and brass ensembles and members of Firebird Vox.
This mesmerizing evening of elegant holiday melodies will truly ignite your festive spirit! The performance will feature the extraordinary vocal talents of acclaimed soloists Mara Bonde and Fred C. VanNess, Jr, direct from his appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Classic holiday favorites like “Sleigh Ride,” “Carol of the Bells,” and “O Holy Night” will envelop you in the cozy embrace of the most wonderful time of the year. Join us for an unforgettable night of music and merriment against the enchanting backdrop of Hammond Castle Museum’s Great Hall.
Music by Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels
Libretto by Rhiannon Giddens
Director Kaneza Schaal
Published by and presented with permission of
Subito Music Corporation
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Thursday, May 4, 2023 | 7:30PM
Saturday, May 6, 2023 | 7:30PM
Sunday, May 7, 2023 | 3PM
Sung in English with English surtitles
I am very excited to celebrate my 40th birthday with my family and friends by presenting my first recital at home! I will be performing my one man show “When I think of Home” that tells the story of how I became a musician and how music helped me through the grieving process of losing my mother.
Space is limited and seating will be first come first serve.
This event is free to the public and will be catered.
Hope to see y'all there!!
How does a group of young artists go from tragedy to hope? From death to life? From loneliness to love? In this visionary treatment of Puccini’s masterpiece La Bohème, BLO does just that — by presenting the opera in reverse order. From finish to start, from death to the promise of new love, from loneliness and despair to the joy of friendships, wine, and song, this reversal presents the characters and arias we love in a refreshing, new vision of the story. Our favorite starving young artists and lovers survive to live another day.
In October, Boston Modern Orchestra Project announced As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage, the most extensive and ambitious presentation of opera by Black composers to ever take place in the US. Starting with Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, As Told By is a series of five operas that depict vital figures of Black liberation and thought across 250 years of history.
Join us on June 17th and experience this wonderful piece of American Art. You don’t want to miss this.
NEMPAC Opera Project presents with the Boston Festival Orchestra Stephen Sondheim’s Into The woods.
To be able to dedicate this planned season to Mr. Sondheim is a blessing to his memory and to the gift of his canon. The performances will be held at the Plaza Theatres at the Boston Center for the Arts on June 16th and June 18th, 2022 at 7:30 pm.
Come enjoy an evening of holiday favorites with your favorite geighs!
Join Fred VanNess and Brendan Kenney as they share some of their favorite holiday songs including The Christmas Song, Santa Baby, Christmas Eve in My Home Town and many more.
Dinner seating starts at 5:30 pm and the one hour show begins at 7:00 pm. RESERVATIONS strongly recommended.
Come home for the holidays as Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston returns to LIVE performances with a 90-minute staged concert version of our beloved ChristmasTime celebration.
Hear a cavalcade of joyous holiday classics sung by your favorite Reagle performers – all backed by our splendid full live orchestra!
Highlights include:
“Oh, Holy Night”
“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
“White Christmas”
“Happy Holiday”
Living Nativity
and so much more!
Directed by Linda Chin
Music Direction by J. Kathleen Castellanos, Paul Katz, Jeffrey Leonard
Performance Dates and Times
Saturday, December 4 – 12 noon
The Salem Philharmonic Orchestra begins its 116th year with a series of four concerts at the Salem High School in January of 2020. This season welcomes a variety of soloists, both vocal and instrumental, and will continue its tradition of offering wide range of classical and popular selections.
January 5th features the return of popular tenors Fred VanNess and Giovanni Formisano.
This concert is free of charge.
Join Fred VanNess and Rodrick Phipps-Kettlewell for an evening of art song and aria featuring the music of Schumann, H. Lesie Adams and Bellini.
FREEDOM RIDE
For our second New Opera Workshop, MassOpera is proud to present a concert performance of Dan Shore’s Freedom Ride. We are thrilled to bring back Chicago Opera Theatre Music Director, Lidiya Yankvoskaya to conduct, and Emmy Award Nominee and NAACP Award Winner, Tazewell Thompson, to stage direct. Both will lead the premiere production with Chicago Opera Theatre in early 2020.
Freedom Ride tells the story of Sylvie Davenport, a young student from New Orleans, as she is drawn into the Civil Rights Movement in the summer of 1961.
Activists, Clayton and Jerome are trying to recruit volunteers to join the Freedom Rides to Jackson, Mississippi, part of a massive and dangerous plan to desegregate interstate bus and train travel. They recruit several students, including Russell Davenport and his older sister Sylvie, who is initially hostile, but attracted to Clayton and determined to win his respect.
As the day for Sylvie’s ride to Jackson looms closer, her personal life starts to interfere with her plans: Clayton rejects her love, her mother Georgia disowns her, her college revokes her scholarship, and Russell backs out of his initial commitment. At a church rally the night before she is to leave, a bomb is tossed through the window, injuring many of the Freedom Riders, including Clayton and—fatally—Sylvie’s young friend Ruby.
Will Sylvie board the train and join the movement?
Come listen to both professional and aspiring singers perform their favorite tunes from the stage and cinema while enjoying snacks and featured cocktails!
Singers-come with your sheet music and sign up for a slot to participate! The night will be emceed by local tenor Thom Smoker and pianist Lianne Goodwin.
Featured performers Stephanie Scarcella, Brendan Kenney and Fred VanNess.
Admission to The Broadway Bar will be in the form of a “pass the hat” donation. Proceeds will go towards the ongoing Cabot Theatre restoration project. Let’s keep the theatre alive for the next 100 years!!!
Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr., noted for having a "domineering, fine voice" will be performing a unique concert of songs and monologue with noted accompanist and vocal coach James Myers. This program is the story of a young bright-eyed black kid from the South who found classical music in college and never looked back.
The one Boston Christmas spectacle guaranteed to warm any heart! Children of all ages are enchanted by Santa’s Workshop, Teddy Bears’ Nutcracker, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Victorian Christmas, precision dancers and The Living Nativity. Our cast of 200 comes gift wrapped in fabulous sets and costumes - all backed by a full, professional orchestra.
Fred VanNess will be returning as the featured solo vocalist. You won't want to miss this spectacular evening of singing and dancing!!
Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr., noted for having a "domineering, fine voice" will be performing a unique concert of songs and monologue with noted accompanist and vocal coach James Myers. This program is the story of a young bright-eyed black kid from the South who found classical music in college and never looked back.
The performance will include personal favorite songs sung at past recitals including a movement from "An American Requiem" composed by Keith Gates as well as monumental and challenging stages of Mr. VanNess life including the passing of his mother - the musical heart and reflective portion of the concert.
Momma’s Boys is a funny and heartfelt exploration of the special and complex bond that exists between gay sons and their mothers.
Come join see Bernstein’s master piece “Candide” fully staged with chamber orchestra. Mr. VanNess will be performing the role of the narrator and oracle of the house Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss! There will be two chances to attend this must see event!!!
Don't miss Opera on Tap's Club Cafe debut for a night you will never forget. Join the party on March 20th for our fiercest line-up yet. From Bel-canto Breakups to Handelian hookups, some of Boston's best promise music of epic proportions while diva and comedian Laura Ethington takes us through the ups and downs of the opera dating world.
Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm.
Mr. VanNess returns for his second appearance with the Salem Philharmonic. He will be singing opera and musical theater selections.
Free to the public.
The one Boston Christmas spectacle guaranteed to warm any heart! Children of all ages are enchanted by Santa’s Workshop, Teddy Bears’ Nutcracker, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Victorian Christmas, precision dancers and The Living Nativity. Our cast of 200 comes gift wrapped in fabulous sets and costumes - all backed by a full, professional orchestra.
Fred VanNess will be returning as the featured solo vocalist. You won't want to miss this spectacular evening of singing and dancing!!
IN THEIR OWN VOICES
A benefit concert hosted by North Shore Music Theatre with special guests Charles Shaughnessy (The Nanny & Days of Our Lives) and Susan Wornick (TV Journalist, Host, and Spokesperson).
$35 VIP SEATS (Rows A-C) includes a private post-show reception
$25 ALL OTHER SEATS
Proceeds benefit Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps
Join Fred VanNess, Carla Maniscalco-Giovinco, and James Myers for a wonderful evening of music in the newly renovated St. Mary of the Annunciation Church. Selections including La Bohème, La Traviata, West Side Story, Les Misérables and more!
$10 at the door with a light reception to follow!
This is going to be a delightful concert of love melodies - solos, duets, trios, even quartets at the beautiful Café St. Petersburg in Newton Center. Ticket price includes dessert, coffee/tea and fruit!
You don't want to miss this Valentine's day event!!
The one Boston Christmas spectacle guaranteed to warm any heart! Children of all ages are enchanted by Santa’s Workshop, Teddy Bears’ Nutcracker, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Victorian Christmas, precision dancers and The Living Nativity. Our cast of 200 comes gift wrapped in fabulous holiday sets and costumes - all backed by a full, professional orchestra.
An adaptation of a concert event held in June 2015 at the Museum of African American History in Boston, MA. Concert includes chamber music, spoken word, and narration based on Abolitionist and Civil Rights themes. The program will include compositions by Bill Banfield, Anthony Green, and others, as well as original poetry and spoken word performances by Amber Rose Johnson. The concert, lasting approximately one hour, will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.
A benefit concert hosted by Stoneham Theatre with special guest emcee Charles Shaugnessy!! This concert is not to be missed!
To purchase tickets please visit https://www.stonehamtheatre.org/a-night-of-music.html
Art songs both old and new explore the depth of Black poetry in song. Works for strings, voice, and piano by Ethan Frederick Greene, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and H. Leslie Adams intertwine with world premieres by LJ White, Frank S. Li, and Samuel Beebe. The power of Black poetry is illuminated through song.
Fred C. VanNess Jr., tenor
Farah Darliette, soprano
Shaw Pong Liu, violin
Olga Patramanska-Bell, violin
Ashleigh Gordon, viola
Javier Caballero, cello
Anthony Green, piano
Full Program:
(click on the NAME to learn more about the composers/poets!)
(Reception and Q&A to follow)
The one Boston Christmas spectacle guaranteed to warm any heart! Children of all ages are enchanted by Santa’s Workshop, Teddy Bears’ Nutcracker, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Victorian Christmas, precision dancers and The Living Nativity. Our cast of 200 comes gift wrapped in fabulous sets and costumes - all backed by a full, professional orchestra.
Fred VanNess will be returning as the featured solo vocalist. You won't want to miss this spectacular evening of singing and dancing!!
Purchase your tickets here:
http://www.reaglemusictheatre.com
Tenor Fred C. VanNess Jr., noted for having a "domineering, fine voice" will be performing a unique concert of songs and monologue with noted accompanist and vocal coach James Myers.
The performance will include personal favorite art songs, arias and musical theater songs sung at past recitals including a movement from "An American Requiem" composed by Keith Gates. This concert will also include personal stories during monumental as well as challenging stages of Mr. VanNess life such as his years at McNeese State University and the passing of his mother - the musical heart and reflective portion of the concert.
For tickets please visit http://gimmelive.com/fredvanness.cfm or call the box office at 978-525-9093
