IBOC DREAM: Cocktails, Opera Showcase & Benefit
Tuesday, December 06, 2022 @ 18:00
Company: International Brazilian Opera Company
Description
International Brazilian Opera Company hosts
IBOC DREAM: Cocktails and Operas
A repertoire showcase and benefit for dream makers.
International Brazilian Opera Company will host a cocktail and opera benefit on December 6th from 6pm-9pm at the sponsoring venue, Luxuny Atelier, (80 W 40th St PH, NYC). Since 2013, the NYC-based non-profit known for developing operas from diverse voices and communities has developed seven new operas, supported sixty-four immigrant artists to work in the USA, presented work in three countries, and has provided music education experiences for the young and old alike.
The intimate evening will bring together IBOC supporters and industry influencers to experience and amplify the organization's work. IBOC artists will perform selections from the company’s repertoire in development, Plastic Flowers, Tamandua, Yemanja, Race, Wild Flower, and Transeuntis Mundi. Guests will also meet the IBOC community, creators, and artists currently enrolled in the IBOC Extraordinary Artists program.
RSVP may be secured through a suggested donation between $150 and $500 at www.iboc.nyc/rsvp. Questions, please contact IBOC executive director Athena Azevedo. athena@brazilianopera.com or text (510) 846-8940. Sponsorship packages:
“We represent a philosophy of opera that is geared towards polycultural connection and the liberating power of the imagination," says founding artistic director João MacDowell. "It is important that this work continues."
“IBOC is a place for dream makers to create community through stories designed for a better world. What makes us unique is the heritage of our approach to creating repertoire, which is distinctly borderless and influenced by the tropicalistas and cannibalistic Brazilian art movements,” says Athena Azevedo, IBOC Executive Director. "Our process is bespoke, and that is why we are so thrilled the event will be presented at Luxuny Atelier, a by-appointment-only shop where every object is unique and tailored for guests. In the evening we will also make a nod to the historical love affair between Brazilian and Italian opera.”
PROGRAM - RUN OF SHOW:
6-7 pm
Cocktails, food, and beverage, silent auction including work from Candida Borges’s award-winning intermedia work, Transeuntis Mundi.
7-8 pm
Live music and libretto readings including opera arias, and new compositions
Conducted by Maestra Priscila Santana:
Plastic Flowers by João MacDowell, select arias performed by countertenor Jordan Rutter.
Costume Design by Raxann Chin. Makeup by A.Love.
Tamandua Suite #4 by João MacDowell, performed by mezzo-soprano Flavia Darcie, tenor Yunxuan Zhu, baritone Samuel Flores, soprano Veronica Mak, and the IBOC Ensemble.
C’est Yemanja by Hugo Sanbone and Constance Vellosi, mezzo-soprano Helena Beltrão and tenor Alexander Scott, trombone by Hugo Sanbone, choreography by Constance Vellosi, and accompanied by the IBOC Ensemble.
Select words from the librettos in progress, Race by Idris Goodwin and Ashley Cornelius, with dramaturgy by Frank Shines and Wild Flower by Nina Smart.
Travessia by Milton Nascimento, performed by tenor Nelson Ebo with the IBOC Ensemble
Quanto è Bella by Gaetano Donizetti, performed by tenor Yunxuan Zhu and the IBOC Jazz Band
IBOC Artist Development Program Showcase accompanied by the IBOC Jazz Band: vocalists Carol Rio, Davinia Pace, Helena Beltrão, Massimiliano Cims, Alexander Scott
8 - 9 pm
Live entertainment from the IBOC Jazz Band, cocktails, food, and beverage, silent auction including work from Candida Borges’s award-winning intermedia work Transeuntis Mundi.
IBOC Jazz Band led by bassist Marcelo Macagnan, guitarist Gabriel Gorski, percussionist Junior Karegato, percussionist Carol Rio, accordion Lucas Cypriano, trombone Hugo Sanbone.