🎶 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕟 𝕦𝕤 🎶
The idea of home has always been close to my heart. Growing up across continents and cultures, I’ve found myself constantly curious about how others define it, how we each arrive at a sense of belonging.
I’m so grateful to have the support of CultureSource to bring this concert series to life: five distinctive stories from five incredible artists. Each performance is an invitation into a personal world. An offering of music and story that invites us to listen more closely, and perhaps find pieces of ourselves within it.
🅷🅾🅿🅴 🆃🅾 🆂🅴🅴 🆈🅾🆄 🆃🅷🅴🆁🅴
Meet the 26-27 members of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, including some new faces!
Please join us in welcoming our first-year artists:
✨ Muse Ye (@moosic97 )
✨ Mario Manzo (@manzobaritono )
✨ Alexis Seminario (@alexis_r_soprano )
✨ Samuel Wallace (@samuelwallacetenor )
And welcome back to our returning artists: Emily Damasco (@emilyydamasco ), Katie Trigg (@katietrigg ), Gabrielė Žemaitytė (@gab.zemaityte ), Gabrielle Turgeon (@gabrielleturgeonsoprano ), Vinícius Costa (@vini_sing )! Stay tuned, you’ll be seeing much more from these rising stars onstage!👏 🎭
A throwback to about a year ago, when we weaved together the story of Eve through the music and words of the past and present. As I head to Banff for FUSE, an interdisciplinary residency for collaborative performance creation, I'm looking forward to playing, searching, trying, and uncovering ✨
🎵 - I pastori (Ildebrando Pizzetti / Gabriele D’Annunzio)
Finally coming down from how wonderful an experience it was to sing for Carnegie Hall SongStudio this year. A truly unforgettable week! As part of our time together, Muse and I were able to record this wonderful piece in the Weill Music Room. The imagery of this piece is so intimate and such a favorite of mine. Thanks to the whole team at SongStudio for putting this together!
📹: Kevin Kuh
I pastori
Settembre, andiamo. È tempo di migrare.
Ora in terra d'Abruzzi i miei pastori
lascian gli stazzi e vanno verso il mare:
scendono all'Adriatico selvaggio
che verde è come i pascoli dei monti.
Han bevuto profondamente ai fonti
alpestri, che sapor d'acqua natia
rimanga né cuori esuli a conforto,
che lungo illuda la lor sete in via.
Rinnovato hanno verga d'avellano.
E vanno pel tratturo antico al piano,
quasi per un erbal fiume silente,
su le vestigia degli antichi padri.
O voce di colui che primamente
conosce il tremolar della marina!
Ora lungh'esso il litoral cammina
La greggia. Senza mutamento è l'aria.
Il sole imbionda sì la viva lana
che quasi dalla sabbia non divaria.
Isciacquio, calpestio, dolci romori.
Ah perché non son io cò miei pastori?
Highlights from Carnegie Hall SongStudio recital!
Never did I think this incredible week was going to be so multifaceted! Grateful to @arcostanzo@dogfishduckfish for making the seamingly-impossible a reality! We were lucky also to be in the presence of great artists throughout the week @javier.arrebola@bryanwagorn@lisetteoropesa@brownleetenor thank you for your inspiration and wisdom!
Special shoutout to @8molly88 for making everything so seamless 🫶
📸: @chrisleephotonyc
SongStudio Pianists 2026!
What a joy it was to meet new friends from/based in Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Portugal, and Taiwan, brought together by Artistic Advisor @javier.arrebola
I had the best time playing, dancing, jamming, and laughing with you all 💃
Halfway through Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio! Tonight was an incredible masterclass with @arcostanzo and I'm looking forward to tomorrow's with @brownleetenor !
The week culminates in an adventurous recital on January 18 at 7:30 PM in Zankel Hall that explores what the space between real and imagined sounds like.
Created alongside artistic director Anthony Roth Costanzo, maverick artist and stage director Doug Fitch, and pianist and scholar Javier Arrebola, you'll hear works by Poulenc, Finzi, Satie, Gershwin, Tom Cipullo, Reena Esmail, Freddie Mercury, Joe Raposo, amongst others. Tickets are available at carnegiehall.org/songstudio.
New headshots courtesy to the incredible @nagster74 and @oliviashae13 !!!
Come say hi to me in the first half of 2026 at:
SongStudio, NYC Carnegie Hall • Jan 12-18
Turandot, Detroit Music Hall • Feb 28
Fuse Residency, Banff Centre • Apr 13-May 2
George Shirley Vocal Competition • May 16-17
As well as recitals at University of Michigan with dear collaborators:
@catherineggoode • Feb 21 8pm
@tyresebyrd_tenor • Mar 13 7pm
@megan.yip • Mar 28 time TBD
@spencervandellen • Apr 10 8pm
Meet Mooshy, the sweetest girl you’ll ever lay eyes on. I met her while volunteering with PAAW (Pet Adoption Alternative of Warren) and fell in love 🥺 she spent some time peeking at us from under the bed but is now out and exploring!
Yesterday our singers met to rehearse with the fantastic Dr. Muse Ye, who was in residency at UMSL this past spring semester. She will be collaborating with them all today for the competition. Thanks for being a friend, @moosic97 !!
Graduation day always feels like a blur, there’s never a way to adequately express the gratitude I feel towards everyone who has been instrumental in that journey, but here are some beautiful faces from the day! 🎓
