Organ Stops, featuring the Opera Philadelphia Chorus led by Elizabeth Braden, brings traditional and new music to three venues in the city with historic pipe organs: Manayunk’s St. John the Baptist Church, Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church in Cobbs Creek, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Germantown. The program pairs traditional opera choruses from Verdi and Wagner with several newer works composed specifically for chorus and organ by contemporary composers Hannah Kendall, Melissa Dunphy, Marcus DeLoach, and David Hurd.
In this concert film, capturing a live performance from May 2021, the tragic tale of Floria Tosca takes on a completely new dimension. Seen through the eyes of an omniscient narrator and focusing on the three main characters, this innovative version of Puccini’s beloved work bridges opera and sto...
Daniel Bernard Roumain's “They Still Want To Kill Us” speaks truth to what transpired in 1921 at the Tulsa Race Massacre, an atrocity all but deleted from history until recently. The work's premiere marks one year since the murder of George Floyd: a commentary on our progress this last century on...
In 2018, acclaimed countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and the luxury art and fashion multimedia company Visionaire created an immersive, operatic art installation that played to sold-out audiences in Philadelphia (as part of Festival O18) and New York City. Glass Handel can now reach a new audien...
