Claire Leyden News

The Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is proud to present Gilbert & Sullivan's comedic operetta, The Pirates of Penzance or The Rascals of the Rappahannock, starring Claire Leyden as Mabel, Samual Keeler as Frederic, Andrew Wynn as The Major General and DC area favorites Sheri Edelen as Ruth and David Jennings as the Pirate King. Performances begin on Wednesday May 22nd and run until Sunday July 7th.

Kim H. Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation, has announced the finalists for the 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition. Thirteen performers will compete for top prizes of $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000.

Twenty-eight performers selected to compete for a chance to win top prizes of $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000; total prizes to exceed $75,000; an all-star team of musical theater, opera, and Kurt Weill experts to adjudicate semifinals and finals.

VHRP LIVE! presents Falling in Love for 160 Years-A Victor Herbert Birthday Soiree, Operetta Love Songs Remembered.

VHRP LIVE! presents Falling in Love for 160 Years-A Victor Herbert Birthday Soiree, Operetta Love Songs Remembered.

In celebration of International Women's Day, DCINY guest conductor Nancy Menk leads an orchestra and all-female choir in various choral works for women's voices. DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Jonathan Griffith conducts John Rutter's Magnificat with the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International. The concert takes place on Sunday, March 17, 2 PM at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall. Tickets start at $20. For tickets and information, visit DCINY's website.

Twenty-eight performers selected to compete for a chance to win top prizes of $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000; total prizes to exceed $75,000; an all-star team of musical theater, opera, and Kurt Weill experts to adjudicate semifinals and finals.

VHRP LIVE! presents Falling in Love for 160 Years-A Victor Herbert Birthday Soiree, Operetta Love Songs Remembered.

Noted conductor Jason Tramm will lead the  Axelrod Performing Arts Center's upcoming benefit concert "Any Dream Will Do" headlining the Tony award winning actress Christine Ebersole with featured soloists Gary Mauer, one of Broadway's Phantoms, Jim Schubin, who starred in Newsies at the Axelrod, and soprano Claire Leyden. The concert, which takes place at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center on Saturday Evening, October 13 in Deal, New Jersey will support the Axelrod PAC's Education Programming.

Returning to the Morgan Park Summer Music Festival to lead the Long Island Concert Orchestra, following their opening concert of the festival's 59th Season earlier this season, Jason Tramm will conduct 'Music from the Stage and Screen' with featured soloists Claire Leyden, soprano and Jordan Weatherton Pitts, tenor.

Nearly a decade ago a story ran in NJ's most widely circulated print newspaper which opened with the statement "New Jersey doesn't have a state music director, but it would seem that Jason Tramm is out to create the position… as he leads opera, choral and orchestral concerts from Morris County to Ocean Grove." Prescient in their observations, The Star Ledger's 2009 article provided a snapshot of Tramm at the beginning of his career.  In spirit, the image resonates today, albeit with a decidedly expanded geographic reach.

HEIST! is a new musical comedy about an enterprising team of thieves who attempt the biggest con Broadway has ever seen, will make its world premiere this summer, in a limited pre-Off Broadway engagement on Thursday, August 9th through Sunday, September 2nd at the Players Theatre, 115 McDougal Street (between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets). Directed by James Will McBride, the production features a book and lyrics by Alex Koceja, music by Michael Uselmann and choreography by Jenna Haimes.

HEIST!, the new musical comedy about an enterprising team of thieves who attempt the biggest con Broadway has ever seen, will make its world premiere this summer, in a limited sneak peek preview engagement beginning Thursday, August 9th and continuing through Sunday, September 2nd only

Kim H. Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation, has announced the semifinalists for the 2018 annual Lotte Lenya Competition, its twentieth anniversary year. The Foundation received 235 audition videos, from singer/actors ages 19-32, hailing from thirty-one US states and Puerto Rico, and sixteen countries on five continents. From that pool, fourteen men and fourteen women from the US, Canada, Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Slovenia have been selected to perform at the semifinals at the Manhattan School of Music on 8 and 9 March.

On Monday, February 5th, Face the Music & Kronos Quartet performed in Kaufman Music Center's 2018 Ecstatic Music Festival .

On August 27th at 7PM noted American conductor Jason Tramm leads the award-winning Adelphi Orchestra, the 150-member Ocean Grove Choir, virtuoso organist Gordon Turk, with featured soloists soprano Monica Ziglar, soprano Claire Leyden, mezzo Soprano Cynthia Cook, Metropolitan Opera tenor Ronald Naldi and bass Justin Beck in a program of French masterworks entitled “In the Footsteps of Our Savior.”

New Rochelle Opera, Westchester's longest running opera company, will present Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, from June 22-25, 2017 in the Frank J. Auriana Theatre at the Ursuline School, 1354 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. 

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce Divaria Productions will be presenting a live opera performance of Cosi Fan Tutte on Saturday, April 22 at 8 pm. Ticket prices range from $25 to $50 and are available by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 5 pm, or online at www.baystreet.org.

Little Radical Theatrics, coming off the heels of the Westchester premiere of SMILE, proudly presents its Summer 2011 production, the celebrated Rupert Holmes musical, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD Performances end on July 17th @ 3:00pm at the Main Street Arts Center (238 Route 117 Bypass Rd, Bedford Hills).

Little Radical Theatrics, coming off the heels of the Westchester premiere of SMILE, proudly presents its Summer 2011 production, the celebrated Rupert Holmes musical, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD Performances run July 14th at 7:30 pm, July 15th and 16th at 8:00pm and July 17th @ 3:00pm at the Main Street Arts Center (238 Route 117 Bypass Rd, Bedford Hills).