Beautiful Dreamers: Ellis Island Vignettes

Join us for an exciting Afternoon Music Concert on Sunday, January 25th, 2025 at 3pm in the Sanctuary of Beacon, 4 Waldron Ave in Summit NJ.

Stephanie Blythe, the world renowned opera mezzo-soprano with pianist Kayo Iwama, present Beautiful Dreamers: Ellis Island Vignettes. The program will include Alan Smith’s song cycle based on first-person accounts of immigrants, as well as Stephanie Blythe singing from the American songbook and accompanying herself on ukelele!

Special Ticket Offer:

Premium seating (These seats are located in the center section of the main floor and in the first row of the balcony. No assigned seating.) These tickets are $40.

General Admission seating (side sections of the main floor and the balcony) These tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door.

Stephanie Blythe has ‘left an indelible mark on operatic roles and the art-song repertoire’. She is a multi-talented mezzo-soprano, appearing on the major opera stages of the world, creating comedic and dramatic characters from Wagnerian women to the father in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Her voice has been described as ‘voluptuous and powerful, with an extraordinary ability to express the essence of music and text’.

Kayo Iwama is an acclaimed pianist/vocal coach, an Associate Director of the Graduate Vocal Art Program at Bard Conservatory and on the Juilliard faculty. She has concertized extensively throughout the world including at Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Kennedy Center, Tokyo’s Yamaha Hall, and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

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Afternoon Music is a supporting organization of Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit, NJ.