Coming in November:
Victoria Bond’s acclaimed opera about Clara Schuman
The German Forum presents Clara at Symphony Space in NYC (Nov. 8), and Rhinebeck CMS presents Clara at Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY (Nov. 10)
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"...Victoria Bond gives each character a three-dimensional role, enriched with original musical colors" - Christine Gehringer of Pamina Magazin
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On Friday, November 8 and Sunday, November 10, the German Forum presents Victoria Bond's acclaimed opera about Clara Schumann. Clara will be performed at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre (2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York, NY 10025) on November 8 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $30 and are available at this link.
A second performance of Clara with the same cast will be presented by the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society on November 10 at 3:00 pm, at Church of the Messiah in Rhinebeck, NY. Tickets are $35 and available at this link. Both performances of Clara will be an abbreviated concert version; cast details are below.
Victoria Bond’s opera about Clara Schumann (libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger) premiered to critical acclaim at the Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival in Baden-Baden earlier this year. The celebration of the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth continues with these performances in New York. Composed by Ms. Bond during her residencies at the Brahms House in Baden-Baden, Clara weaves the intertwining lives of Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms into a dramatic mixture of music and passion. Complete cast details are below.
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Highlights of Victoria Bond's Opera, "Clara" from the Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival in Baden-Baden
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The world premiere of Victoria Bond's opera about Clara Schumann received worldwide media attention and enormous audience acclaim at 11 sold-out performances. Co-presented by the Easter Festival of the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and the Berlin Philharmonic, Clara was performed by a cast of outstanding singers and orchestra, conducted by Michael Hasel, principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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November 8 and 10, 2019
Clara
an opera about Clara Schumann
by Victoria Bond
2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York, NY 10025
presented by The German Forum,
Babette Hierholzer, artistic director
Tickets are $30 (plus $5 service fee) and available at this link
Church of the Messiah
6436 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
presented by Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society
Babette Hierholzer, artistic director
Cast
Clara Schumann - Christine Reber, soprano
Robert Schumann - Jonathan Estabrooks, baritone
Friedrich Wieck (Clara’s father) - Robert Osborne, bass-baritone
Johannes Brahms - Heejae Kim, tenor
Sumina Studer, violin
Thilo Thomas Krigar, cello
Babette Hierholzer, piano
Victoria Bond, conductor
Music by Victoria Bond
Libretto by Barbara Zinn Krieger
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Mrs. President, an opera about the first woman to run for president of the United States....in 1872. Composer Victoria Bond and librettist Hilary Bell have crafted a seething drama of ambition and betrayal, which tells the story of real-life Victoria Woodhull's visionary struggle to defy history and become the first female President of the United States. The New York Times proclaimed "Victoria Bond has struck gold in the story of Victoria Woodhull."
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Other Performances of Music by Victoria Bond
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@Cairn University (Philadelphia, PA)
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@St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Oct. 19, 6 pm) (Manhattan)
@First Presbyterian Church (Oct. 20, 6 pm) (Brooklyn)
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A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by the New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding."
Highlights of Ms. Bond’s catalogue include the operas Clara (premiered at the 2019 Berlin Philharmonic Easter Festival), Mrs. President, The Miracle of Light and The Adventures of Gulliver; ballets Equinox and Other Selves; orchestral works Thinking like a Mountain, Bridges and Urban Bird; and chamber works Dreams of Flying, Frescoes and Ash and Instruments of Revelation, among many others. Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets.
Bond’s recordings include Instruments of Revelation (Naxos American Classics, 2019), performed by members of The Chicago Symphony; and Soul of a Nation: Portraits of Presidential Character (Albany Records, 2018), works featuring soloists from the Chicago and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras that pay tribute to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and FDR. Her music has also been recorded on the Koch International, GEGA, Protone, and Family Classic labels, and her works are published by G. Schirmer, Theodore Presser, C.F. Peters, Subito Music and Protone Music.
The New York Times praised Victoria Bond’s conducting as “full of energy and fervor.” She has served as principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago since 2005. Prior positions include Assistant Conductor of Pittsburgh Symphony and New York City Opera and Music Director of the Roanoke Symphony and Opera, Bel Canto Opera and Harrisburg Opera. Ms. Bond has guest conducted throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. She is the first woman awarded a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School.
Ms. Bond is Artistic Director of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, an annual new music series in New York, which she founded in 1998. She is a frequent lecturer at the Metropolitan Opera, has lectured for the New York Philharmonic and in 2019 was elected to the roster of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows. The Wall Street Journal, NBC’s Today Show, the New York Times and other national publications have profiled Ms. Bond.
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