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...
Patricia Racette stars as Elle in Poulenc's La voix humaine, in a new film from director James Darrah, premiering September 24 on the Opera Philadelphia Channel.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw brings her complex, layered sound world to the Opera Philadelphia Channel with We Need to Talk, based on a poem by Anne Carson, starring soprano Ariadne Greif, in a film from Maureen Towey and Four/Ten Media. Premiering April 16.
