Upcoming Concerts & Performances
2 upcoming concerts and performances from Vira + Friends, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Fri Oct 23 · 7:30pm
Soprano Brooke Schooley, contralto Vira Slywotzky and bass Patrick Scully sing solos, duets and trios drawn from opera, art song, musical theater and popular song, with David Sytkowski at the piano. Composers include Purcell, Mozart, Verdi, Duparc, Menotti, Rodgers and Sondheim, along with the Ukrainian composers Volodymyr Ivasiuk and Kostiantyn Dankevych. Slywotzky has sung principal roles with Seattle Opera, Chautauqua Opera and Boston Midsummer Opera.
Fri Nov 13 · 7:30pm
Contralto Vira Slywotzky and Georgian-American pianist Ana Glig, joined by cellist Miriam Eckelhoefer, perform songs by women composers past and present, among them Alma Mahler, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Florence Price, Augusta Holmès, Meri Davitashvili, Vivian Fung, Lori Laitman and Martha Redbone. The performers introduce the works. Slywotzky, who founded the series in 2018, was the sole US representative at the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.