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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
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.
Read MoreMeet Composer Melissa Dunphy (and hear about her setting of Walt Whitman)
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 […]
Read MoreBryan Hymel, Irini Kyriakidou & Laura Ward in Conversation
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 […]
Read MoreDaron Hagen: 21st-Century Song Cycles
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, […]
Read MorePodcast: Daron Hagen
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….
Read MoreDocumentary about our first composer-in-residence, Kile Smith
Film by John Thornton. Enjoy!
Read MoreKile Smith talks about composing In This Blue Room
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.
Read MoreJake Miller and the Queen of the Night
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!
Read MoreActor Jake Miller talks with Suzanne DuPlantis about Once Upon a Time
Jake Miller and Suzanne discuss Once Upon a Time.
Read MorePreview video of Once Upon a Time
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.)
Read MoreMeagan Miller’s Rolls Royce voice
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!
Read MoreGearing up for the next concert
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 […]
Read MoreIntroducing our YouTube channel
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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