As part of Temple's new partnership with Opera Philadelphia, the Department of Vocal Arts is pleased to welcome composer Gregory Spears to campus on April 15th (3-4:45PM).
The event will be held in the Chapel of Four Chaplains (TPAC) where Greg will speak about his work as an opera composer, answer questions, and give a masterclass to one of our voice students on an aria from his acclaimed opera Fellow Travelers. The visit coincides with Opera Philadelphia's rehearsals of his new opera Sleepers Awake, which opens at the Academy of Music on April 22nd.
All CPCA students and faculty are welcome to attend this free event. Please join us!
https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/2526-season/sleepers-awake/
https://www.gregoryspears.com/
Gregory Spears is a New York-based composer whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” (The Boston Globe). Spears’ most recent opera The Righteous premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in summer 2024. His Fellow Travelers, written in collaboration with Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2016 and has received numerous productions, hailed as “one of the most accomplished new operas I have seen in recent years” (Chicago Tribune) and an opera that “seems assured of lasting appeal” (The New York Times).