21st Century Conductor

From Left to Right, Richard Marshall, director of the Center for Contemporary Opera, and the three prizewinners of the  Center's International Opera Singers Competition 2006,  baritone Lars Fosser from Denmark, soprano Emily Langford Johnson from New York and baritone Mauricio Virgens from Brazil.

The competition was held in closed session over the 21st and 22nd of October in the Center for Jewish History in New York. From 20 international semi-finalists, 8 were selected to sing in the final before judges Lauren Flannigan, Robert Hess, Charles Maryan, Gordon Ostrowski and Wally Riecker.

Mauricio and I performed Barber's I Hear an Army, Adam's News News from Nixon in China, Maxwell Davies' I pray you people from Taverner, Vaughan Williams' Silent Noon, and Avant de Quitter ces Lieux from Gounod's Faust.

As prize, we will be invited to perform a joint recital in the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York in early 2008.  Behind every artistic success is the support of very many generous people, so we want to say "Thank you" to Richard Marshall and everyone who has helped us over the past few years. 

Visit the Center for Contemporary Opera's website at www.conopera.org for more info about their amazing work, and save your copy of the Autumn 2006 Opera Today, and read about the competition on page 7

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http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/the_basics/art_overvi... for information on the 3 halls that make up the world's most famous concert venue.