Washington National Opera Presents AN EVENING WITH PAUL APPLEBY AND JOSHUA HOPKINS IN RECITAL, 4/6

By: Mar. 13, 2014
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Washington National Opera (WNO) presents An Evening with Paul Appleby and Joshua Hopkins in Recital, an evening of story and song featuring the stars of WNO's forthcoming production of The Magic Flute, Sunday, April 6, 2014 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Accompanied on piano by Natalia Katyukova, Mr. Appleby and Mr. Hopkins will share tales from their lives as young opera singers and perform songs, arias, and duets from popular works by Mozart, Donizetti, Bizet, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Sondheim, and more. All three artists make their WNO debuts with this performance.

American tenor Paul Appleby will appear with WNO later this season as Tamino in The Magic Flute. A recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the recipient of a 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, he counts among his performance credits appearances with the Metropolitan Opera (including Two Boys, Dialogues des Carme?lites, Les Troyens, and The Enchanted Island), Oper Frankfurt, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and locally at Wolf Trap Opera Company (Zaide and A Midsummer Night's Dream). Current season highlights include debuts with the Santa Fe Opera and Canadian Opera Company, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera and Oper Frankfurt.

Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins will be seen at WNO later this season in the role of Papageno in The Magic Flute. He has been named by Opera News as one of 25 artists poised to break out and become a major force in the coming decade. In the 2013-2014 season, his operatic performances include the roles of Marcello in La bohe?me at the Canadian Opera Company and Schaunard in a revival of the beloved Franco Zeffirelli production at the Metropolitan Opera. He also made an international debut earlier this season at Oper Frankfurt as Guglielmo in Cosi? fan tutte. Profoundly committed to the art of song, his first recital disc, Let Beauty Awake, was released in 2010 featuring songs of Barber, Bowles, Gluck, and Vaughan Williams on the ATMA Classique label.

Russian pianist Natalia Katyukova is currently working as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. She is a graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and has served on the faculties of Texas Wesleyan University, Russia's University of Fine Arts, Italy's Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Claudio Monteverdi," and Mississippi's Natchez Opera Festival.

WNO's 2013-2014 season includes a revival of Donizetti's comedy The Elixir of Love (March 20-29 in the Opera House) and a new English-language production of Mozart's classic The Magic Flute (May 3-18 in the Opera House). The May 3 opening-night performance of The Magic Flute will be simulcast to Nationals Park as part of M&M'S® Opera in the Outfield. A second season of the American Opera Initiative continues WNO's efforts to commission new American works with the world-premiere performances in June of An American Soldier by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang. Details of WNO's 2014-2015 season can be found here.

ABOUT WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA

Washington National Opera (WNO) is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. Founded in 1956 and now an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the company boasts numerous artistic highlights, including world premieres, commissioning of new works and new productions, international tours, and performances by some of opera's most admired artists. WNO productions have been heard around the world, through radio and television broadcasts on WETA-FM, NPR, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and PBS, as well as through audio and video recordings.

WNO recently launched the American Opera Initiative, a comprehensive new commissioning program that brings contemporary American stories to the stage while fostering and developing the talents of new American composers and librettists. WNO contributes to the future of opera through two other signature artist-development programs: the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program is a leading resident-training program for artists on the verge of international careers, and the WNO Opera Institute nurtures the ambitions of high-school-age singers and pianists from across the nation during an intensive three-week summer program.

WNO's education and access initiatives include year-round programs in public schools throughout the region; Generation O, a popular discount-ticket initiative for young people; and a variety of lectures and discussions for every production on the season calendar. Among the most popular of WNO's community programs is M&M'S® Opera in the Outfield, which brings free, live simulcasts of opera to Nationals Park for thousands of opera fans as well as new audiences.

TICKET INFORMATION

All tickets to An Evening with Paul Appleby and Joshua Hopkins in Recital are $45 and are available at the Kennedy Center Box Office, by calling (202) 467-4600 or (800) 444-1324, or online at www.kennedy-center.org.

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