NYFOS Concludes Mainstage Series with 'LETTERS FROM SPAIN' Tonight

The New York Festival of Song completes its 2014-15 NYFOS Mainstage series with LETTERS FROM SPAIN-A World of Song in Spanish Poetry tonight, April 28, 2015 at 8:00 pm at Merkin Concert Hall.

The poetry of Spain has inspired composers around the world, eliciting some of their most colorful and rhythmically alluring songs. Touring through Russia, Germany, Argentina, and America before flying home to Spain, this new program samples the music of her greatest songwriters. Music from Dmitri Shostakovich's Spanish Songs, Robert Schumann's Spanisches Liederspiel, William Bolcom's Canciones de Lorca, and works by Piotr Tchaikovsky, Hugo Wolf, Carlos Guastavino, Enrique Granados, and many others.

Soprano Corinne Winters joins NYFOS following the November 2014 release of her album with Steven Blier, Canción Amorosa/Songs of Spain-a collection of love songs drawing on Spain's many cultures and languages. Opera News wrote that "Corinne Winters's slim, dark-hued soprano entices the listener in this wide-ranging collection. [It] sends the listener off wanting more... Perhaps a sequel?" Winters recently debuted at the Washington National Opera and is set to make additional debuts over the coming seasons with Covent Garden, Canadian Opera Company, Opernhaus Zürich, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, and others.

Joining Winters is a pair of dynamic young men. Tenor Theo Lebow returns to NYFOS following the 2012-13 season performance of Songs of the Midnight Sun, part of NYFOS's residency at Caramoor, while baritone Alexey Lavrov makes his NYFOS debut. Lavrov is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and returns to the Met this upcoming season as Schaunard in La Bohème and as Silvio in the new production of Pagliacci.

The trio of singers will be joined by Steven Blier, NYFOS artistic director and "national treasure" (The New York Times) and associate artistic director Michael Barrett on piano.