2021-2022 Season Events
Season by Arhan Kumar ’23 and Alexander Chen ’22
Recitals by April Chen ’23 and Mai Nguyen ’24
Season by Arhan Kumar ’23 and Alexander Chen ’22
Recitals by April Chen ’23 and Mai Nguyen ’24
Saturday, April 30 @ 11:45 am. | Harvard Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138.
Beginning with an instrumental overture performed in collaboration with THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers), undergraduate and graduate singers and instrumentalists from HCO will present four scenes from the operatic repertory, closing with a finale number for orchestra and chorus.
This event is generously sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Friday, April 1 at 7:00PM. | The Signet Society. 46 Dunster St, Cambridge, MA
Harvard College Opera will present a showcase featuring our wonderful first-year performers! The concert will include vocal and instrumental works by classical composers. The performance will be held at the Signet Society and is free and open to the Harvard community.
Performances run Wednesday, February 2 through Sunday, February 6. Show page HERE
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), marks Harvard College Opera’s triumphant return to the Agassiz Mainstage after the 2020-2021 virtual season. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. All performances are family friendly. Performance recordings, as well as cast, staff, and orchestra credits available at the show page above.
This opera produced with the generous support of the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the staff at the.
Wednesday, November 3 @ 6:30 pm. | RSVP HERE
To Lifted Voices, a recital underscoring the contributions of artists of color to the world of classical music. The performances are inspired by and engage with Tomashi Jackson's exhibition Brown II at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a collection of work exploring the legal, social, contemporary, and historical movements flowing from the 1955 Brown v. Board of Education ("Brown II") decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Please join us in person for an evening of music-making to honor icons of liberty, resilience, and social justice in classical music.
This event was envisioned and produced in collaboration with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Wednesday, November 3 @ 6:30 pm. | RSVP HERE
To Lifted Voices, a recital underscoring the contributions of artists of color to the world of classical music. The performances are inspired by and engage with Tomashi Jackson's exhibition Brown II at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a collection of work exploring the legal, social, contemporary, and historical movements flowing from the 1955 Brown v. Board of Education ("Brown II") decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Please join us in person for an evening of music-making to honor icons of liberty, resilience, and social justice in classical music.
This event was envisioned and produced in collaboration with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Tuesday, October 12th @ 4 pm. | Calendar
Location: Paine Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Learning From Performers presents visiting artists in conversations and workshops. Join us for a workshop on piano accompaniment and vocal technique with composer / pianist Matt Aucoin and operatic soprano Erin Morley featuring performances from HCO undergraduate singers Benjamin P. Wenzelberg ’21 and Isabella Meyer ’24 and pianists Benjamin T. Rossen ’24 and April Chen ’23.
This event is in partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Music Department.
Friday, October 1, 2021 at 7:30pm (meet at 6:45pm) | FREE tickets can be reserved here.
Please email harvardcollegeopera@gmail.com if you plan on attending the outing together so we can plan around you. We will depart as a group from the Harvard Square T-Station (Starbucks entrance) at 6:45pm on Friday. Please bring either physical proof of vaccination or results of a recent PCR test. There is also an optional group dinner at Source Restaurant in Harvard Square following the performance.
More information about Cavalleria Rusticana from the Boston Lyric Opera here.
This outing is generously supported by the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
