Performed by the Bronx Arts Ensemble Singers and Double Reed Band.
The ensemble singers themselves are in the orchestra pit; the dancers mime and move to their music.
We also developed teams of ensemble singers, many of whom went on to major international careers — Beverly Sills, Norman Treigle, Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Samuel Ramey, Catherine Malfitano and many, many others — and helped establish the American opera singer as a force to be reckoned with.
Vocal music draws some of the most adventurous minds among today's composers, and many members of the evening's accomplished ensemble singers perform in Ekmeles, a group that routinely demonstrates the bizarre, haunting and terrifying sounds humans can produce.
One was the tarot-card scene, where the future love lives of two ensemble singers (Randa Rouweyha and Erin Passmore) were cheekily predicted by two couples from the ballet.
NICHOLAS DAY FESTIVAL". The Bronx Arts Ensemble Singers will sing old Dutch carols by Jack Kale and narrative by the playwright Robert Kornfeld describing the arrival of the Dutch "Sinterklass". Tomorrow and Sunday at 1 and 3 P.M., at Van Cortlandt House Museum, Van Cortlandt Park near Broadway and 246th Street, the Bronx.
The story zips rapidly to and from the bedrooms, drawing rooms and dining rooms of the glamorous actress Desirée Armfeldt and her family and friends, while the concertizing ensemble singers function as a kind of white-tie-and-tails Greek chorus, commenting on the action without participating in it.
Choir: Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers.
The cast has been expanded as well; the same ten actors and eight musicians have been augmented with six very busy ensemble singers (who also serve as understudies).
This opera is all about the ladies, and the men in it need no more than to be good ensemble singers or duet partners, which they all were.
