Free Art Talk: Masters of Opera on Dec. 7 at EEA

John Mitty Monday, November 19, 2012

December 7: Masters of Opera

With EEA Artists-in-Residence Long Island Opera

(RIVERHEAD, NY, November 19, 2012) –– East End Arts is pleased to announce December’s installment of the First Fridays Arts-in-Community Series to be held on Friday, December 7 from 6:30 PM to 8 PM at the East End Arts Carriage House, located behind the East End Arts Gallery at 133 East Main Street, Riverhead NY. “Masters of Opera” will be an illustrated musical tour where Long Island Opera will introduce the artists whose talents contribute to this unique and enduring art form. The Composer: from Handel and Mozart to Puccini; the Conductor: from Toscanini to Muti; the Performer: from Muzio and Caruso to Bjorling and Tebaldi. Vintage costumes and opera memorabilia will be on display. Question and Answer will follow the presentation. This FREE event is open to the public. This program is part of December’s “Opera Weekend” at East End Arts, a monthly weekend dedicated to opera classes and workshops, led by performing and teaching artists from Long Island Opera, as part of their residency. For more information, visit http://eastendarts.org/education/AIR2012-LIOpera.html.

Long Island Opera will be in residence at East End Arts from October 2012 through February 2013. Each month will feature an “Opera Weekend,” with low- or no-cost programs, classes and workshops open to the public on a variety of opera-related topics at the East End Arts School, located at 141 E. Main Street in Riverhead, NY. Long Island Opera (LIO), the Island’s oldest opera company, has brought a notable blend of opera performance and opera education to Nassau and Suffolkcommunities for more than fifty years. From its beginnings in an adult education course in 1958, LIO has engaged, entertained, and educated audiences all across Long Island, in concert halls, outdoor performance spaces, at libraries, schools, and community centers. The 2012-13 season marks a renaissance for LIO. Led by music director Fabio Bezuti and executive director Joy Berta, LIO's season has included two fully staged operas of Carmen, Rigoletto, and a scheduled concert of La Bohème highlights, April 2013.The centerpiece of LIO’s education efforts is this four-month residency at East End Arts, the first time an arts organization has been chosen for residency. LIO’s performing and teaching artists will offer workshops in opera history, performance, and craft. Combining presentation, discussion, and performance, these workshops will take participants behind the scenes for an up-close discovery of the unique world of opera. For more information about their residency, visit http://eastendarts.org/education/AIR2012-LIOpera.html.

East End Arts is very pleased to present this series of Arts-in-Community forums and presentations on the first Friday of the month in Riverhead, and the third Thursday of the month in Greenport, to encourage discussion and engage the local community with the arts. These free events are open to the public. For more information about the First Fridays and Third Thursdays series’, visit http://www.eastendarts.org/events/index.html#FirstFri or call 631-369-2171.

First Fridays and Third Thursdays are made possible, in part, by the Miracle-Gro Fund––a donor-advised fund at the Long Island Community Foundation. For more information, visit www.licf.org.

For more information, contact the East End Arts School at 631-369-2171 or visit www.eastendarts.org.

jmitty@longislandyellowpages.com

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