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Penn appétit, “Penn’s premiere food magazine”, has a delicious post about our reception after the Love with a Twist concert at AVA on February 16. Did you know that we have a marvelous reception with great food and drink after almost every one of our concerts?

Lyric Fest presented Love with a Twist: For those lucky at cards, unlucky in love—a program of great song and opera featuring the daydreams, denials, and disasters of love. To highlight our performance and Valentine’s Day celebrated mixologist Katie Loeb created an original Love with a Twist cocktail for us. And, just like romance, it shows…

We hope you are warm and cozy in this storm. We have a little gift for you: the program of Love with a Twist as a PDF file: Love Twist Program. See you at one of the performances this weekend?

Two of our guest artists for Love with A Twist are Barbara Shirvis and Stephen Powell. While they have independent vocal careers, they happen to be married and we are happy to have the opportunity to have them both perform in our program about the many facets of love. Lyric Fest spoke with Stephen in San Diego,…

I thought it might be nice if we put the denials and disasters on hold for a day, and dream. Besides, I am beginning to worry that you are expecting all dismal, tragic love when next we meet for Love with a Twist. Not so! I, for one, will be offering two of my dreamiest…

And now if I may, I present our wonderful baritone for Love with a Twist, Stephen Powell (heard here in a delight from Brigadoon.) Stephen will open our exposé on love and all its foibles with the Prologue from I Pagliacci (heard here by the late, great Leonard Warren.) May I? Will you allow me? Ladies! Gentlemen! Excuse me if…

In opera, anyway, the love interest in most librettos usually involves the TENOR and the SOPRANO. (Note, I am a mezzo, but in the words of the great German poet Heine, truly, Ich grolle nicht*) (Heard here with Eberhard Wächter) Now, rest assured The Tenor is often charming, persuasive, tenacious and irresistible.  And jealous, unfaithful, murderous,…

Well, as I sit to begin blogging for our upcoming concert “Love with a Twist,” it’s another snow-day here is Philadelphia. Thinking about all this fiery passion while staring out the snowy window can’t help but bring Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice to mind. What is it about love that freezes and burns? This is the kind…

West Chester’s own Stephen Powell is scheduled to sing in our upcoming Love with a Twist program. You can hear him tonight on a live broadcast from KPBS San Diego of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera I Pagliacci presented by the San Diego Opera. How can you listen to this on the web, you ask? Visit the KPBS website…

We are extending the deadline to January 6, 2014. Here is the updated press release with the new deadline. We are looking forward to your song submission! PRESS RELEASE LYRIC FEST ANNOUNCES YOUNG SONG COMPOSERS COMPETITION For Immediate Release September 20, 2013 Lyric Fest announces its first song competion. The winner will receive both a cash…

On Monday evening, October 28, Denyce Graves and Laura Ward performed at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC to help commemorate the unveiling of the portrait of the four women Supreme Court Justices, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Justice Elena Kagan, painted by Nelson Shanks.