Ariadne Greif – Past Concerts
Ariadne Greif, praised for her "luminous, expressive voice," "searing top notes," and "dusky depths," (NYTimes), enjoyed a casual child career as a “boy” soprano at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in operas ranging from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love with The Orlando Philharmonic, to Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Atthis, by G.F. Haas, which The NY Times called "one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
She performed with William Kentridge in his production of Ursonate at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Performa Festival, CalPerformances, and the Ultima Festival in Oslo, where she was invited back for September 2020 and 2022 with two large pieces of her own. She stepped in at the last minute at the 2022 Ojai Festival with AMOC, and starred in a film for Opera Philadelphia of We Need To Talk, a new monodrama written for Ariadne by Caroline Shaw and Anne Carson, as well as an opera film called Table Manners by Sheree Clement. Ariadne has premiered upwards of twenty new operas and more than a hundred new chamber works.
Ariadne has performed at Resonant Bodies, Sydney Chamber Opera, Sarasota Opera House, The Meidan Festival, Den Norske Opera, with the Orlando Philharmonic, The Knights, and across the US, Canada, France, Finland, and the Middle East, including more than 200 concerts with Ensemble Mélange, and in appearances with Pekka Kuusisto, Gabriel Kahane, Lukas Ligeti, and JACK Quartet, among others.
Brooklyn Rider: Chalk & Soot
Tyshawn Sorey — Untitled
Gabriel Kahane — American Studies
Arnold Schoenberg — String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Giovanni Sollima — Selected works (four quartets TBA)
Colin Jacobsen — Suite from Chalk and Soot
$35-$55
Washington Performing Arts: Brooklyn Rider with Ariadne Greif, soprano
Tyshawn Sorey — Untitled
Gabriel Kahane — American Studies
Arnold Schoenberg — String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
Giovanni Sollima — Selected works (four quartets TBA)
Colin Jacobsen — Suite from Chalk and Soot
$51.75
Sacred & Profane: music by Sheree Clement & Robert Sirota
Sheree Clement — Mermaid Songs (for string quartet & soprano; world premiere)
Robert Sirota — A Sinner's Diary (for flute, 2 violas, cello, percussion, & piano)
Sheree Clement — Table Manners (for 2 a cappella voices; live premiere)
$35 ($25 senior/student, $5 child)
Fort Greene Orchestra: Opera Gala
Giuseppe Verdi — Selected works
Richard Strauss — Selected works
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Selected works
Early bird: $25 |
Regular: $20 standing, $49 general, $80 front
Fort Greene Orchestra: Opera Gala
Giuseppe Verdi — Selected works
Richard Strauss — Selected works
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Selected works
Early bird: $25 |
Regular: $20 standing, $49 general, $80 front
Roulette: Numinous
Anthony Branker — The Door of No Return (world premiere)
Bob Goldberg — Dream Sequence (world premiere)
Steven Swartz — Any minute, now (world premiere)
Joseph C. Phillips Jr. — So Far Behind Now Because Then (excerpts; Rebecca L. Hargrove & Ariadne Greif, sopranos)
Free
Roulette: Numinous
Anthony Branker — The Door of No Return (world premiere)
Bob Goldberg — Dream Sequence (world premiere)
Steven Swartz — Any minute, now (world premiere)
Joseph C. Phillips Jr. — So Far Behind Now Because Then (excerpts; Rebecca L. Hargrove & Ariadne Greif, sopranos)
$25 advance, $30 doors ($20 student/ages 65+ w/ ID)
Generation: Celebrating 25 Years at MATA
Eve Beglarian — Selected works (arr. Ariadne Greif)
Paul Pinto — Selected works (arr. Ariadne Greif)
Various — Selected works (pieces by Lester St. Louis & Found Sound Nation's 'Mosaic: Daydreams')
$40-$75
Isola
$23.05
Kings, Giants, & Robots – Vocal Music of Paterson, Bond, & Garfein
Herschel Garfein — King of the River (text by Stanley Kunitz)
Robert Paterson — The Companion (libretto by David Cote)
$32