George London Foundation for Singers Announces 2013-14 Season

Three international opera stars and three stars on the rise are the six artists who headline the 2013-14 season of events of the George London Foundation for Singers, which has been honoring, supporting, and presenting the finest young opera singers in the U.S. and Canada for more than four decades. Five of the artists are GeorgeLondon Award winners, and thus among the "scores of important singers [who] have been discovered by the [George London Foundation] competition over the years," as Peter G. Davis wrote in The New York Times last year.

The three rising stars have won George London Awards in the past four years. They are featured in the 19th annual George London Foundation Recital Series, which presents pairs of outstanding opera singers, many of whom were winners of the award early in their careers or are recent recipients. All George LondonFoundation events take place at The Morgan Library & Museum:

• Matthew Polenzani, tenor, and Corinne Winters, soprano, with Ken Noda, piano. Mr. Polenzani is a 1998 George London Award winner; Ms. Winters won her George London Award in 2012. Mr. Polenzani was originally scheduled to appear with soprano Emalie Savoy on the 2012-13 series, but had to withdraw due to a schedule change. Sunday, October 20, 2013, at 4:30 PM

• John Relyea, bass, and Lori Guilbeau, soprano, with Warren Jones, piano. Ms. Guilbeau is a 2010George London Award winner. Sunday, March 9, 2014, at 4:30 PM

• Christine Brewer, soprano, and Dominic Armstrong, tenor, with Craig Rutenberg, piano. Mr. Brewer is a 1991 George London Award winner; Dominic Armstrong just won the award in March 2013. Sunday, April 6, 2014, at 4:30 PM

(To see the George London Award-winning performances of 2013-14 recital artists Corinne Winters (2012),Lori Guilbeau (2010), and Dominic Armstrong (2013) visit the Media Library of www.georgelondon.org, which features video of the George London Foundation Awards Competition final rounds 2010-2013.)

The 43rd annual George London Foundation Awards Competition begins with three days of preliminary auditions and culminates with the final round and award ceremony open to the public. The 2014 competition takes place February 17-21, and the public is invited to attend the competition finals and awards announcement on Friday, February 21, 2014, at 4:00 PM.

All events will take place in Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street. A subscription to the series of all three recitals is $120. Single tickets will be sold beginning September 15 for $45 each. Tickets to the competition finals are $20, $10 for series subscribers.

For tickets to all these events and for information, call (212) 212-956-2809, or e-mail info@georgelondon.org.

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