Sarah returns to the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata with Opera Acadia in the 1,500 seat performance hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. Eric Mahl conducts. Marshall Hughes directs.
Sarah returns to the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata with Opera Acadia in the 1,500 seat performance hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. Eric Mahl conducts. Marshall Hughes directs.
Help!ComeHome! invites you to join us for an up-close and personal look into our ongoing, nationwide mission to help communities in need! Based in Portsmouth, NH, Help!ComeHome! has quietly been making a difference in the lives of underserved Americans across the country for almost two decades. Come learn all about the work we’ve been doing, from natural disaster relief, to emergency holiday food supply, water crisis response, diaper drives, winter clothing drives, partnerships with Navajo Nation, and dozens of other initiatives. Our volunteers hail from far and wide, representing all walks of life, united by faith in Jesus Christ, and committed to indiscriminate love for our neighbors. In this world of uncertainty and increasing divisiveness, let us put our differences aside and come together as one to support our neighbors in need. Our evening features performances by award-winning soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper, celebrated for her “meltingly beautiful” singing and “passionate power” and the renowned, virtuoso jazz pianist and arranger, Stu Shelton, whose decades-long career and incredible versatility have made him an audience favorite across the country. Enjoy light bites and a cash bar while soaking in some of opera’s most beautiful arias and duets, performed in honor of Help!ComeHome!’s mission and work. We look forward to seeing you there!
Ms. Cooper is excited to make her role debut as Nedda in Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo with Opera Western Reserve, directed by Scott Skiba, and conducted by Susan Davenny-Wyner in the historic, beautifully-restored 2,300-seat auditorium of the DeYor arts Center.
Join Sarah for a crisp, fall afternoon of food, drink, and music. More information to come!
Sarah joins the Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Orchestra at University of Chicago as a soloist in a performance of Handel’s Messiah at Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago. James Kallembach conducts. More information to come!
Spend this beautiful Maine afternoon with Sarah Joyce Cooper, Tamra Grace Jones, and Stephanie Foster for an ocean-view concert of beloved classics from the Great American Songbook!
Hosted by the Bar Harbor Music Festival.
With baritone Phil Lima, Sarah joins the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at New England Conservatory Preparatory Program in Robert Russell Bennett's arrangement of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess - A Concert of Songs and the East Coast premiere of Nicolas Hersh's arrangement of We Shall Overcome/Lift Ev'ry Voice. Juliano Dutra Aniceto conducts.
With baritone Phil Lima, Sarah joins the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at New England Conservatory Preparatory Program in Robert Russell Bennett's arrangement of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess - A Concert of Songs and the East Coast premiere of Nicolas Hersh's arrangement of We Shall Overcome/Lift Ev'ry Voice. Juliano Dutra Aniceto conducts.
Ms. Cooper returns to Carnegie Hall as the soprano soloist in the world premiere performance of Mark Hayes’s Oratorio, Psalmos, conducted by composer Mark Hayes, with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
Ms. Cooper will appear as a soloist with the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, featuring the Music on the Hill chorus. RSO Music Director Eric Mahl conducts.
Ms. Cooper joins her husband, Eric Mahl, Music Director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, for an intimate performance of operatic favorites and beloved classics from the Great American Songbook. Join us for a lovely spring afternoon of food, drink, and music!
Join lauded soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper, acclaimed pianist and conductor Ramsey Reyes, and the choir of St. Agatha and St. James for an evening full of beautiful lyricism from Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs and the achingly human melodies of the African American Spiritual. This is a soul-stirring event not to be missed!!
Ms. Cooper is thrilled to be part of the NEC Prep 75th Anniversary Celebration as a soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, featuring pianist George Li and the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Juliano Dutra Aniceto conducts.
This is a fun and exciting educational program with Kindred Spirits Arts, featuring excerpts from Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock), Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, and Langston Hughes poetry. Featuring soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper, Allison Kiger on flute, Peter Adamczyk on piano, and Juan Martinez on clarinet.
In the culmination of her residency with the Rochester Oratorio Society and the voice department of Robert Wesleyan University, Sarah Joyce Cooper will appear as a soloist with the ROS in a performance of Will Todd’s Mass in Blue, featuring Jazz All Stars and the Rochester Oratorio Society Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra
The ROS opens its 80th season in celebratory style with brilliant music by Rochester composers and a jazz-inspired mass. Jeff Tyzik’s “Psalm 150” was premiered by the ROS 20 years ago. Hear it in Jeff’s new edition, along with Ron Nelson’s “Fanfare for a Festival” and the globally famous “Mass in Blue,” by Will Todd, in its local premiere. With Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano, the ROS Orchestra and Jazz All Stars.
The Opera Guild of Rochester presents Ms. Cooper in recital as part of her residency with Roberts Wesleyan University and the Rochester Oratorio Society.
Selections include “Signore, ascolta!” from Puccini’s Turandot, Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées, selections from Amadeo Roldan’s Motivos de son, and various arrangements of Negro Spirituals, all followed by a brief Q & A.
Ms. Cooper will appear as a soloist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Federico Cortese conducts.
Appearing alongside Junhan Choi, baritone, Ms. Cooper will be the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem featuring the Project STEP orchestra. Eric Mahl conducts.
Opera returns to Bar Harbor with a raucous and fresh retelling of one of opera’s greatest romantic comedies, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). This immersive experience, produced by Sarah Joyce Cooper and Eric Mahl and directed by Marshall Hughes, brings love, gangsters, hilarity and joy to the Criterion theater this summer as we travel back into the 1930s. Full of color, energy and life, this production is sure to have you laughing, crying, and falling in love with our all-star cast.
Nemorino, a humble and lovesick paperboy will do anything to win the affection of Adina, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the Mayor. When Belcore, a notorious mob boss arrives with his cronies and sets his sights on Adina, Nemorino knows that time is running out for him to win Adina’s heart. Just in the nick of time, “Doctor” Dulcamara, a quack physician and scam artist arrives with the perfect solution for Nemorino: the Elixir of Love! Scheming and hijinks ensue as this rowdy bunch competes for money, marriage, and true love.
With Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano; Omar Najmi, tenor; Junhan Choi, baritone; Eliam Ramos, bass-baritone; and Timatha Kasten, soprano; Marshall Hughes, Stage Director; and a pit ensemble conducted by Eric Mahl.
Cast
Nemorino: Omar Najmi, tenor
Adina: Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano
Dulcamara: Eliam Ramos, bass-baritone
Belcore: Junhan Choi, baritone
Giannetta: Timatha Kasten, soprano
Opera returns to Bar Harbor with a raucous and fresh retelling of one of opera’s greatest romantic comedies, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). This immersive experience, produced by Sarah Joyce Cooper and Eric Mahl and directed by Marshall Hughes, brings love, gangsters, hilarity and joy to the Criterion theater this summer as we travel back into the 1930s. Full of color, energy and life, this production is sure to have you laughing, crying, and falling in love with our all-star cast.
Nemorino, a humble and lovesick paperboy will do anything to win the affection of Adina, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the Mayor. When Belcore, a notorious mob boss arrives with his cronies and sets his sights on Adina, Nemorino knows that time is running out for him to win Adina’s heart. Just in the nick of time, “Doctor” Dulcamara, a quack physician and scam artist arrives with the perfect solution for Nemorino: the Elixir of Love! Scheming and hijinks ensue as this rowdy bunch competes for money, marriage, and true love.
With Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano; Omar Najmi, tenor; Junhan Choi, baritone; Eliam Ramos, bass-baritone; and Timatha Kasten, soprano; Marshall Hughes, Stage Director; and a pit ensemble conducted by Eric Mahl.
Cast
Nemorino: Omar Najmi, tenor
Adina: Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano
Dulcamara: Eliam Ramos, bass-baritone
Belcore: Junhan Choi, baritone
Giannetta: Timatha Kasten, soprano
Ms. Cooper is thrilled to be returning to Carnegie Hall as a soloist, this time in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperæ solennes de confessore with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.
The ECSO will tie a red-white-and-green bow around its 2024-25 season with a program of achingly romantic duets from famous Italian operas—La bohème and Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and Il trovatore and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi—performed by soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper and Mexican-born tenor Jesús Daniel Hernández. The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus will join the orchestra for “Va, pensiero” (“Go, thought, on wings of gold” ) from Verdi’s Nabucco, the chorus of the Hebrew slaves, an anthem of Italian unification and, later, of other oppressed peoples.
Ms. Cooper will perform the role of Anne Hutchinson in the world premiere of James Kallembach’s opera, American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, commissioned by Harvard University.
In the dark of predawn morning in a bitterly cold November in 1637, Anne Hutchinson, then pregnant with her fifteenth child, set out on foot with her family to traverse the treacherously frozen five miles to stand trial before the Great and General Court of Massachusetts for the slandering of ministers and, thereby, having “troubled the peace of the commonwealth and churches.” Governor John Winthrop, who had recently been elected in a clever political coup overthrowing supporters of ideals similar to Hutchinson’s, presided over the trial. In the unheated courtroom, the ominous and thick black cloaks of each Puritan are silhouetted against the rough-hewn timbers of the crude courthouse. Hutchinson is fighting for the right to express her own religious views, and, indirectly, for greater political sway for the self-made merchant class in the complex, theologically entwined politics of the Commonwealth. Winthrop, who is deeply invested in the success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, views himself as the only hope of keeping the colony unified and to avoid having its charter revoked by King Charles, who already has problematic relations with all church separatists.
This intense story is told amidst a backdrop of scenes such as Winthrop’s famous “City upon a hill” sermon, Hutchinson and Winthrop’s own home and family life, the riveting political events of 1636-1637, and the unique communal life of the Puritans, as represented by the chorus. The chorus plays a crucial role in representing the interior, domestic life of childbirth, health care, matters of the home and personal spirituality set against a backdrop of a religion-centered, male- dominated society, yet with a surprisingly nuanced sense of a divide of church and state. Quilting bees, spiritual singing in the home, communal building projects all brought people together even in a society that placed a high value on personal growth, expression, and responsibility.
Ms. Cooper will perform the role of Tebaldo in the four act version of Verdi’s Don Carlo with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Youth Symphony
Federico Cortese , Conductor
Joshua Major , Stage Director
BYSO Opera Chorus
Charles F. Prestinari, Chorus Master
BYSO is proud to present Verdi’s Don Carlo, a true masterpiece and a monumental undertaking in the world of opera. Since 2008, BYSO has immersed young musicians and audiences of all ages in the magic of opera. As the only youth orchestra to present full, semi-staged operas, this production promises to be an extraordinary experience for BYSO students, singers, audiences, and everyone involved.
Ms. Cooper will perform as a soloist in The Ties that Bind: A concert honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Opera unMet, lead by founder Marshall Hughes, brings a soul-stirring performance, not to be missed!
Ms. Cooper joins the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus again as a soloist, this time alongside tenor Jonas Budris in a performance of Italian Opera excerpts that showcase the artform’s rich history ranging from Monteverdi to Verdi.
Harwood Management Group in conjunction with the Ulster County Italian American Society, is pleased to present a concert of excerpts from some of the most famous and beloved Italian operas. Included will be arias, duets and quartets written by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and Donizetti from numerous well-known works including La bohème, La traviata, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Tosca, Don Pasquale, La donna del lago, and L’elisir d’amore.
The quartet of soloists is composed of soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper, who recently made her debut at Seattle Opera in the world premiere of Jubilee; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova who has just returned from a recital tour in her native Czech Republic; tenor Jesus Hernandez, a favorite of Placido Domingo who frequently performs as a soloist at Washington Opera; and baritone Eliam Ramos, who in the past year has created five new roles in USA operatic premieres. On the Steinway is internationally acclaimed pianist Craig Ketter, who has been heard throughout the US and Canada as a piano soloist and recording artist.
With the generous support of Radio Kingston, the concert will be livestreamed on their Facebook channel. Tax deductible proceeds will benefit both the The Old Dutch Church and Community Care, part of the Italian American Society’s outreach.
For more information regarding sponsorships or prepaid tickets, please contact: UCIAFInc@gmail.com or HarwoodManagement@gmail.com
Ms. Cooper makes her mainstage debut with the Seattle Opera as Minnie Tate in Tazewell Thompson’s Jubilee. Performances run October 12-26, 2024.
A world premiere opera. Not long after Emancipation and the end of the Civil War, the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers came together and changed music forever. Telling the story of the ensemble's early members, this opera—which includes over 40 spirituals—follows them on their first tours, raising funds for the fledgling Fisk University and spreading their music around the world. From threats of violence to a pivotal performance for Queen Victoria, the singers share their personal histories through powerful vignettes full of humor, heartbreak, and hope.
This newly orchestrated ensemble opera by renowned writer and director Tazewell Thompson (Blue ’22) features 13 singers performing spirituals such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Balm In Gilead,” “Deep River,” “Go Down, Moses,” “On Ma Journey Now,” “Wade In The Water,” “Steal Away,” “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel,” and many more.
Enjoy a performance of spirituals, jazz, musical theater, and opera with cast members of Seattle Opera’s Jubilee and the 5th Avenue Theater production of After Midnight. This collaboration will feature the dazzling talents of Sarah Joyce Cooper, Darren Drone, Yusef Seever, and Porscha Shaw at several community venues, including The Opera Center and the Federal Way Library.
Enjoy a performance of spirituals, jazz, musical theater, and opera with cast members of Seattle Opera’s Jubilee and the 5th Avenue Theater production of After Midnight. This collaboration will feature the dazzling talents of Sarah Joyce Cooper, Darren Drone, Yusef Seever, and Porscha Shaw at several community venues, including The Opera Center and the Federal Way Library.
Enjoy a performance of spirituals, jazz, musical theater, and opera with cast members of Seattle Opera’s Jubilee and the 5th Avenue Theater production of After Midnight. This collaboration will feature the dazzling talents of Sarah Joyce Cooper, Darren Drone, Yusef Seever, and Porscha Shaw at several community venues, including The Opera Center and the Federal Way Library.
Enjoy a performance of spirituals, jazz, musical theater, and opera with cast members of Seattle Opera’s Jubilee and the 5th Avenue Theater production of After Midnight. This collaboration will feature the dazzling talents of Sarah Joyce Cooper, Darren Drone, Yusef Seever, and Porscha Shaw at several community venues, including The Opera Center and the Federal Way Library.
Ms. Cooper will appear as the featured soloist in concert with the Bar Harbor Music Festival Orchestra.
Program:
Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate
Grieg - Våren
Montgomery - “I want to go home”
Mahl and Cooper, arr. - “His Name So Sweet”
Gershwin - “Summertime”
Mozart - Symphony No. 37
Kurt Atterberg - Suite no. 7 from Anthony and Cleopatra
Ms. Cooper will appear in recital with pianist Christina Spurling in a concert for Young Audiences with the Bar Harbor Music Festival.
This free concert features an amazing lineup of Boston's best musicians and performers. Don't miss a summer evening of amazing music!
