An Afternoon of Song with Saratoga Soprano Sylvia Stoner, and Suna Gunther
BOLTON LANDING – The Sembrich continues its 2021 Summer Festival with Nature, Our Gentlest Mother an afternoon song recital with sopranos Sylvia Stoner and Suna Gunther. The show will take place 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
Celebrating the connection of nature and song, listeners will experience the beauty of Aaron Copland’s settings of Emily Dickinson poems, luscious songs by Richard Strauss, and works of women composers including Lori Laitman and Lili Boulanger.
A diverse professional singer and actor, soprano Sylvia Stoner – Artist-in-Residence in Voice at Skidmore College -has been seen on stages across the country in both opera and theater. Her operatic credits include Lisa in Pikovaya Dama, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Manon in Manon Lescaut, Nedda in I Pagliacci, and Marguerite in Faust.
Soprano Suna Gunther is currently a professor of voice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a 14-year member of the Grant Park Chorus of Chicago and was assistant music director and soprano soloist for Trio Chicago and Friends for ten years, with whom she traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. State Department as a “cultural ambassador.”
Tickets are $30 and are available online at TheSembrich.org/festival or by calling 518-644-2431. This performance will take place on the lakeshore under a performance tent. A rain date is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 12 at 2 p.m.
The Sembrich is located at 4800 Lake Shore Drive, Bolton Landing. For more information, visit www.TheSembrich.org or email: Office@TheSembrich.org.