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  • Damien Geter

    “Damien Geter is an artist of many talents. However, it has been in recent years that his vast gifts for composing have come into just as much prominence.” — PATRICK D. MCCOY, LA OPERA

  • Denyce Graves

    Recognized worldwide as one of today’s most exciting vocal stars, Denyce Graves continues to gather unparalleled popular and critical acclaim in performances on four continents. USA Today identifies her as “an operatic superstar of the 21st Century,” and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution exclaims, “if the human voice has the power to move you, you will be…

  • Justin Austin

    Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician” and The Wall Street Journal for his “mellifluous baritone,” Drama Desk Award nominated baritone, Justin Austin has been performing professionally since age 4.

  • Charlotte Blake Alston

    Charlotte Blake Alston performs in venues throughout North America and abroad. Venues are wide and include the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kimmel Center, the Women of the World Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, prisons, detention centers and a refugee camp in northern Senegal.

  • Bewitched

    This year’s tribute to the Great American Songbook brings you the the tart, heart-wrenching lyrics of Lorenz Hart, spun into effortless melody by Richard Rodgers. A partnership like no other, these two produced over 500 songs and 28 Broadway Shows, collaborating for more than two decades before Hart’s tragic and untimely death. Their marvelous songs…

  • A Singer’s Singer

    American-born Singer Sewing Machine heiress Winnaretta Singer became the Princess de Polignac when she married a titled (but bankrupt) aristocratic composer, Prince Edmond de Polignac, in a Mariage blanc. Together the two created one of the most famous salons in Paris, one that Winnaretta would continue well into the 20th century. This far-reaching, but little…

  • Metamorphosis of Plants

    An Earth Day celebration created for Longwood Gardens, this concert of German Lieder is inspired by the great German poet, statesman, and botanist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his poem, “The Metamorphosis of Plants”. Botanical songs from Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven, Wolf, Mahler, and more, with Goethe’s majestic poem interspersed throughout, read in English. This intimate…

  • COTTON

    All purchase-in-advance tickets for COTTON are sold. Peripheral seating and standing room can be purchased at the door for $20. For its 20th Anniversary LF has commissioned an extraordinary new song cycle by Damien Geter that brings together music, poetry, and the fine art photography of John Dowell. Featuring Metropolitan Opera stars Denyce Graves and…

  • Nikki Giovanni

    Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, she and her sister returned to Knoxville each summer to visit their grandparents. Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather’s alma mater, Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at Virginia…