(DIS)REPUTABLE: the good, bad, and questionable women of the stage

Sunday | August 14 at 2 p.m.

Metropolitan Opera soprano Emily Pulley, last seen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in the Company’s world premiere of The Secret River, returns with a program that runs the gamut of formidable women of varying degrees of respectability and rectitude: from nuns and nobility to harlots and hags. Acclaimed soprano Emily Pulley’s radiant voice and electrifying acting have won her both national and international acclaim on the operatic stages. Most recently, she joined both Los Angeles Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their production of The Light in the Piazza, covering Renée Fleming in the leading role, and this past season, Ms. Pulley has performed Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Opera Omaha, Zita in Gianni Schicchi with Tulsa Opera, and Sister in the world premiere of Why I Live at the PO with Urban Arias. The spectacular Ammon Perry Bratt joins on piano, and there will also be a special season preview presentation by general and artistic directors Gabriel and Grant Preisser.

A STAR TURN: from opera to broadway

Sunday | August 21 at 2 p.m. | WAIT LIST ONLY

Please email info@operaorlando.org to be added to the waitlist.

Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson returns to Opera Orlando with an exciting line-up of arias and showtunes guaranteed to thrill and delight the summer concert crowd. In collaboration with pianist Chevalier Lovett, the two will present a sparkling program showcasing Ms. Richardson’s effervescent stage presence and shimmering vocals. From being a 2020-21 Opera Orlando studio artist and premiering the role of Calpurnia in The Secret River to another premiere in Why I Live at the PO with UrbanArias and singing Despina in Opera Williamsburg’s Così fan tutte, Ms. Richardson has quickly become an in-demand soprano, thanks in part to the love and support of her Opera Orlando family. This concert promises to be a beautiful homecoming for the rising star, and a wonderful afternoon of stunning music for Opera Orlando audiences.

LATE NIGHT ENCOUNTERS

Sunday | August 28 at 2 p.m.

Soprano Susan Hellman Spatafora, who was last seen in the Company’s 2020 Die Fledermaus as the beguiling Rosalinda, closes the 2022 Summer Concert Series with friend and fellow Opera Orlando favorite, bass Andrew W. Potter, who was just seen on the MainStage as Sparafucile in Rigoletto. Celebrated by Opera News for her “perfect, yearningly optimistic coloring—golden and radiant," and by Classics Today for her “impressive instrument,” Ms. Spatafora has performed with Palm Beach Opera, Opera Tampa, Sarasota Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, and Central City Opera. Mr. Potter has garnered increasing demand across the country for his larger than life stage presence and voice to match. This past season, he joined Opera Santa Barbara as the title role in Don Pasquale, Pacific Opera Project as René, King of Provence in Iolanta, and Tulsa Opera as Simone in Gianni Schicchi, as well as Pastor Avery in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline with Tulsa Opera. Ride out the summer with this dynamic duo, accompanied by the always fantastic Robin Stamper. Late Night Encounters will explore characters who reveal their true selves only in the cloak of darkness including late night scenes from Verdi’s La Forza del destino and Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah, evening art songs by Alfred Bachelet, Herbert Hughes and Richard Strauss, and musical theater favorites from Les Misérables and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.