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Lyric Fest is the only performing-arts organization in the mid-Atlantic region with a primary focus on song and art song in all its varied expression. Now in it’s 15th year, LF has produced and presented over 100 concerts and recitals featuring more than 200 local, regional and national artists. LF’s reputation for excellence and innovation is growing regionally and nationally, and the organization has been featured in a number of national publications. Commissioning and performing new works is also an integral part of LF’s mission and programming philosophy.

RESOLVED Premiere Performance

Sep 11, 2020
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RESOLVED is a song cycle dedicated to Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment, composed by Patrice Michaels. Above is a video of the premiere performance, hosted by the National Constitution Center on August 26th, 2020. Performed by J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano and Laura Ward, piano. Co-commissioned by Lyric Fest.

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Meet Composer Melissa Dunphy (and hear about her setting of Walt Whitman)

Apr 3, 2019
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I had an extremely good time chatting it up with composer Melissa Dunphy about all things Melissa/Whitman/Colonial Philadelphia…and I even got to be privy to the privy! (You can hear about that in the lagniappe section of the interview.) Melissa is one of the 11 composers commissioned by LF for Carol of Words – Walt […]

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Bryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou & Laura Ward in Conversation

Apr 25, 2018
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Lyric Fest’s Co-Artistic Director and pianist Laura Ward engages in a wide-ranging conversation with international opera stars, tenor Bryan Hymel and soprano Irini Kyriakidou. Their concert features music by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Composer-in-Residence Benjamin C.S. Boyle and operatic favorites. Join us for this grand finale to Lyric Fest’s 15th-anniversary season! Premium seating and elegant reception at […]

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Daron Hagen: 21st-Century Song Cycles

Dec 25, 2017
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    Lyric Fest presents its first CD, released by Naxos Records and now available—Daron Hagen: 21st Century Song Cycles. Click here for an excerpt, “The Rain Stick,” performed by soprano Justine Aronson, tenor Joseph Gaines and pianist Laura Ward. Check out this engaging podcast with Daron as he talks about the album, life as a composer, poetry, […]

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Podcast: Daron Hagen

Dec 25, 2017
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Composer Daron Hagen recently collaborated with Lyric Fest on a fascinating new Naxos CD, 21st-Century Song Cycles. He talks about the album, life as a composer, poetry, writing songs and much more….

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The Fire-Rider

Mar 4, 2017
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Wade in the Water

Jul 10, 2016
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Spring Waters

Jul 10, 2016
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Dream within a Dream Rehearsal

Nov 2, 2015
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Hagen Dream within a Dream

Nov 2, 2015
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Poe vid 3

Oct 30, 2015
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Poe Vid 2

Oct 25, 2015
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Poe Vid 1

Oct 23, 2015
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Lyric Fest’s 2014-15 Composer-in-Residence Kile Smith

Jul 13, 2015
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Documentary about our first composer-in-residence, Kile Smith

Jun 18, 2015
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Film by John Thornton. Enjoy!

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Kile Smith talks about composing In This Blue Room

Apr 13, 2015
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Enjoy this video of Lyric Fest’s first composer-in-residence Kile Smith talking about his composition of the song cycle In This Blue Room before the March 15, 2015 presentation of the cycle at the Academy of Vocal Arts.

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Kile Smith on Composing In This Blue Room

Apr 13, 2015
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Waxing Poetic Preview Party

Mar 16, 2015
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Lyric Fest Presents Itself

Mar 4, 2015
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Waxing Poetic Preview

Mar 3, 2015
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Lyric Fest Presents Itself

Feb 26, 2015
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Michael Adams and Laura Ward in the Clown Song

Nov 11, 2014
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Waltzing the Spheres

Aug 29, 2014
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Manners

Aug 28, 2014
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It’s All I Have to Bring Today

Aug 28, 2014
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Wild Nights

Aug 28, 2014
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Stephen Powell and Harold Evans rehearse The Roadside Fire

Feb 15, 2014
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Barbara Shrivis and Harold Evans rehearse Send in the Clowns

Feb 15, 2014
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Richard Troxell rehearses Strauss’s Zueignung with Harold Evans

Feb 11, 2014
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Deep River

Nov 12, 2013
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Guide My Feet, Lord

Nov 12, 2013
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Wade in the Water

Nov 12, 2013
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Precious Lord

Nov 12, 2013
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Jake Miller and the Queen of the Night

Apr 22, 2012
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Actor Jake Miller and Suzanne DuPlantis talk about the Queen of the Night from the Magic Flute, on the program in our family concert Once Upon a Time. Don’t miss the little sample of Maggie Moliterno singing the Queen’s aria near the end of the clip!

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Actor Jake Miller talks with Suzanne DuPlantis about Once Upon a Time

Apr 22, 2012
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Jake Miller and Suzanne discuss Once Upon a Time.

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Preview video of Once Upon a Time

Apr 22, 2012
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Our newest video clip: Suzanne DuPlantis interviews Katy Pracht and Maggie Moliterno, two of the singers in our upcoming family concert “Once Upon a Time“. (This, as well as all other clips, is always available in our Listen and Watch page.)

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Jake Miller with Co – Founder Suzanne about Children’s Concert “Once Upon a Time”

Apr 22, 2012
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Jake Miller and The Queen of the Night

Apr 22, 2012
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Katy Pracht and Maggie Moliterno as “Hansel and Gretel”

Apr 22, 2012
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Meagan Miller’s Rolls Royce voice

Feb 3, 2012
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We are not making it up, the “Rolls Royce voice” comment is right under the video of Ms. Miller singing Es gibt ein Reich from Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. She will be singing this in our upcoming 1912 concerts in March; you will not want to miss it!

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Gearing up for the next concert

Jan 28, 2012
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We are putting together a fabulous concert for late March, A Very Good Year ~ Happy Birthday to 1912. As a little introductory fanfare, we’ll be sharing with you interesting tidbits about 1912 as it features in our concert regularly. Here’s the first one: Happy Birthday to 1912 – The year Jules Massenet died, John Cage […]

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Curt Cacioppo Discusses Lyric Fest’s premiere of “Volgi, Beatrice”

Nov 9, 2011
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Introducing our YouTube channel

Nov 5, 2011
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Our brand new YouTube channel is ready for you! Please follow the link and subscribe to it, so you will always have our videos at your fingertips. Our first video clips are: an interview with Co-Founding Artistic Director Suzanne DuPlantis, an interview with Allen Krantz, composer of Little Elegy, which will be performed in our […]

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Allen Krantz discusses his beginnings as a composer (part 2)

Nov 5, 2011
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Lyric Fest Interview with Suzanne DuPlantis: Why a song festival

Nov 3, 2011
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Allen Krantz discusses “Little Elegy…” (part 1)

Nov 3, 2011
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Allen Krantz discusses his beginnings as a composer part 1

Nov 3, 2011
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Allen Krantz discusses “Little Elegy…” (part 2)

Nov 3, 2011
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