Metropolitan Opera Recital Schedule at SummerStage

The Metropolitan Opera and SummerStage continue their long-time collaboration to present some of The Met's finest young singers in showcase recitals taking place across New York City.

Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Schedule at SummerStage

Doors for all Central Park shows open one hour prior to listed showtimes. Shows taking place at all other parks are in open-air venues and do not have "door times"; show starts promptly at stated time.

Tuesday July 16, 2013 at 8:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Central Park, Manhattan

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Friday July 19, 2013 at 7:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn

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Tuesday July 23, 2013 at 7:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Crotona Park, Bronx

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Thursday July 25, 2013 at 7:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island

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Tuesday July 30, 2013 at 7:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan

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Thursday August 1, 2013 at 7:00pm

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

FREE SHOW at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens

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COMPLETE SHOW INFORMATION

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series
Featuring ERIN MORLEY, ISABEL LEONARD and STEPHEN COSTELLO

At SummerStage presented by AT&T

Tuesday July 16, 2013

FREE SHOW at Central Park, Manhattan

Recommended Arrival Time: 6:30pm

Showtime: 8:00 PM - 10:00PM

Friday July 19, 2013

FREE SHOW at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn

Showtime: 7:00 PM - 8:30PM

An enchanting evening of favorite opera arias and duets featuring risingMetropolitan Opera stars Erin Morley (soprano), Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), and Stephen Costello (tenor), accompanied by pianist Bradley Moore.

Website: http://www.metopera.org/summer

Erin Morley was most recently heard at the Met as Sister Constance inDialogues des Carmélites and Woglinde in Das Rheingold andGötterdämmerung. She has also sung the Forest Bird in Siegfried and Masha inThe Queen of Spades and appeared in several other productions ranging from Puccini's Manon Lescaut to Shostakovich's The Nose. She made her debut in Valencia, Spain, as Gilda in Rigoletto. Other performances include Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger and the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute with the Santa Fe Opera, Phédon in Satie's Socrate with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, and Giannetta in L'Elisir d'Amore with New York City Opera. She is a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and will be heard with the company in the 2013-14 season as Sophie inDer Rosenkavalier.

Isabel Leonard's Met repertoire includes Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Miranda in The Tempest, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette. She has also sung Rosina at the Vienna State Opera, Dorabella at the Salzburg Festival, a Ravel double bill of L'Enfant et Les Sortilèges and L'Heure Espagnole at Japan's Saito Kinen Festival, and Cherubino at the Glyndebourne Festival, Paris Opera, and Munich's Bavarian State Opera. Other companies she has appeared with include the Santa Fe Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Canadian Opera Company. She was the 2011 recipient of the Met's Beverly Sills Artist Award and returns in the 2013-14 season as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.

Stephen Costello has been heard at the Met as Percy in Anna Bolena and as Edgardo and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor. Other performances include Rodolfo in La Bohème with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, and Los Angeles Opera, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette at the Salzburg Festival, Carlo in Linda di Chamounix and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at Covent Garden, Camille in The Merry Widow with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role ofFaust with San Diego Opera, and Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore for his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival. He also appeared as Ishmael in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick in Dallas.

Bradley Moore is a graduate of the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and has been an assistant conductor at the Met since the 2001-02 season. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic, accompanied soprano Renée Fleming and cellist Yo-Yo Ma on a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, made several media appearances with violinist Joshua Bell, and appeared in recital with clarinetist Julian Bliss and singers including Ms. Fleming, Christine Goerke, Alice Coote, Eric Owens, Eric Cutler, and Denyce Graves. He has also worked as assistant conductor, coach, and recitative accompanist at the Salzburg Festival, Bastille Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Colorado, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, and Anchorage Opera.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Summer Recital Series

Featuring MARIO CHANG, YING FANG and BRANDON CEDEL

At SummerStage presented by AT&T

Tuesday July 23, 2013

FREE SHOW at Crotona Park, Bronx

Showtime: 7:00 PM - 8:00PM

Thursday July 25, 2013

FREE SHOW at Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island

Showtime: 7:00 PM - 8:00PM

Tuesday July 30, 2013

FREE SHOW at Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan

Showtime: 7:00 PM - 8:00PM

Thursday August 1, 2013

FREE SHOW at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens

Showtime: 7:00 PM - 8:00PM

An evening of favorite opera arias and duets by up-and-coming Metropolitan Opera artists Ying Fang (soprano), Mario Chang (tenor), and Brandon Cedel (bass-baritone), accompanied by pianist Bradley Moore.

Website: http://www.metopera.org/summer

Mario Chang, from Guatemala City, Guatemala, is entering his third year in the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This past season, he made his company debut as the Fourth Sentry in Parsifal as well as his Israeli debut as Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites with the International Vocal Arts Institute. He also appeared at Carnegie Hall and with the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne. Upcoming engagements include the Italian Tenor inDer Rosenkavalier at the Met.

Ying Fang from Ningbo, China, will enter her first year in the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in the 2013-14 season and make her Met stage debut as Madame Podtochina's Daughter in Shostakovich's The Nose. Past performances include Pamina in The Magic Flute, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, the title role of Mozart's Zaide, Bellezza in Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, and Fanny in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio.

Brandon Cedel will enter his first year in the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Program in the 2013-14 season and will make his Met stage debut as a Watchman in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten. He has performed with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Gotham Chamber Opera, Music Academy of the West, and the Chautauqua Institution. Future engagements include Opera Orchestra of New York, Wolf Trap Opera Company, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Glyndebourne Festival.