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Opera Exposures to Kick Off 2013 Season with VERDI AND VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK, 7/21

By: Jul. 20, 2013
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Opera Exposures, the not-for-profit organization created in 2004 that is dedicated to presenting concerts and recitals featuring seasoned professional musicians and young operatic artists in accessible venues at affordable prices will begin its 2013 season on Sunday, July 21 at 3 PM with a recital titled Verdi and Visions of The American Songbook at the Unitarian Church of Staten Island, 312 Fillmore Street in New Brighton.

The program will feature Larry Marshall, Jeannine Otis, Kelli Butler, Jose Heredia, Sandra Mercado and Anthony Turner. They will be accompanied on piano by Mimi Stern-Wolfe. The Narrator is Dwight Owsley, an Opera Exposures Board member and a well known New York bon vivant. The musical event is being produced by Edna Greenwich, Founder and President of Opera Exposures. Seats may be reserved online at www.operaexposures.org.

"As we begin our 2013 season, Opera Exposures is proud to have been participants in National Black History Month celebrations held at the New York City Municipal Building at One Centre Street, says founder/producer Edna Greenwich. "In spite of the impending arrival of Hurricane Sandy, our program, on October 28,2012 at St. Mark's Church, was the highlight of National Opera Week. "Our new season will kick off with an exciting program titled Verdi and Visions of The American Songbook and features outstanding performers from the worlds of opera and musical theatre."

Featured performers are soprano Kelli Butler, who has sung Bel Canto at Caramoor Opera and the Martina Arroyo Academy in New York City; soprano Sandra Mercado, who will reprise the role of Desdemona in Otello at Valley Lyric Opera; dramatic soprano Jeannine Otis, a Presser Music Scholar who has recorded with music legends Grover Washington, Donald Byrd and Oscar winning film composer, Eliot Goldenthal; baritone Anthony Turner, who is much in demand as a singer,



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