Jazz-Cabaret Gala
June 6, 2012
Wednesday, 7:00pm
BACK BY OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND!
The renowned Callaway Sisters
LIZ CALLAWAY and ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY!

Chip Seelig and Bettye Martin Musham will host this spectacular musical evening in a unique Tribeca loft with panaoramic views of the Hudson River, surrounded by beautiful plantings and a pool that affords a magnificent setting for sipping wine and hearing the amazing talents of the award-winning, Tony-nominated singers, songwriters, actresses Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway.
See our Gala page for more information on this spectacular event!

. . . PREVIOUSLY THIS SEASON . . .

Marie Kraja International Singing Competition
October 25 – 30, 2011
Tirana, Albania
Encompass hosts two singers from the United States who will perform on National Albanian Television in a worldwide classical opera competition, established by Albanian producer Zana Cela. For more information, see our Marie Kraja page.

New Composers Forum*
November 11, 2011
Friday, 3:30pm
Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College
New York, NY
Encompass will perform scenes from The Theory of Everything, a new opera commissioned and developed by Encompass. (Read more about The Theory of Everything)
*This is a presentation during a conference, so please email Nancy at encompassopera@yahoo.com if you would like to attend.

Encompass Honorary Gala: A Musical Salute! honoring Marvin Hamlisch, one of America’s most celebrated composers
Sunday, November 20, 2011
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Performance
at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, featuring stars of Broadway, television and film.
Tickets call: 718-398-4675. See our Gala page for more information.

Music for the Soul and Mind
February 5, 2012
Sunday, 4:00 pm
Gramercy Park North, NYC ~ by reservation only
Celebrate an Early Valentine!
Prepare to be swept away to a different time and place.
You and your Valentine are cordially invited to come in from the chill of winter, 
into a castle-like atmosphere of a unique apartment overlooking a wonderful city park.
Relax as your eyes peruse the rare paintings that adorn every wall
and enjoy a glass of wine and delicious hors d’oeuvres while we
celebrate our 2012 Season of New Opera and Music drama!

SEVEN FEATURED SINGERS

THREE CREATIVE COMPOSERS

The Theory of Everything, an opera exploring science, spirituality and indigenous cosmology, was commissioned and
developed by Encompass, and is now being orchestrated by composer John David Earnest.  With a libretto by Nancy Rhodes,
plans for a major production are in the works.

Introducing Daniel Schlosberg, a dynamic, young composer/pianist who is writing a new opera which Encompass will be
developing over the next few seasons.

Roger Trefousse, "The Colors Aria" from the chamber opera entitled Found Objects. Roger has composed for Encompass and
other companies including  BAM and Mannes Opera . Found Objects is written in a "found" language, and describes
a summer trip by car from New York to Maine. The text is made up of "objects" such as roadside signs, newspaper
headlines, overheard scraps of conversation and distorted fragments of popular songs, and is taken directly from the outer
landscape, sometimes literally, sometimes filtered through the unconscious.

FOR RESERVATIONS & MORE INFORMATION: 718-389-4675 / encompassopera@yahoo.com
or print and mail this completed form to Encompass New Opera Theatre.

New American Opera Previews, From Page to Stage
March 18, 2012
Sunday, 2:30 pm
at Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall (122nd and Broadway, NYC)
In collaboration with Opera Index and Manhattan School of Music. Performances of new opera in development hosted by WQXR’s Midge Woolsey who will moderate a discussion with the composers and singers. Excerpts from The Astronaut’s Tale, music by Charles Fussell and libretto by Jack Larson.
Tickets: $20/15 Advance; $10 students & seniors
For reservations call: 718-398-4675.

The Astronaut’s Tale traces a young man’s life from his first experience of loss, his dog killed by a car, the appearance of a mysterious Einstein-like guide, his youthful desire to become an astronaut, marriage, and the fulfillment of his ambition.

The setting is our own time with its confrontation of science and religion. The opera concludes with a meditation on the nature of the cosmos and our experience of life and death within. The Astronaut’s dream was to be in outer space, but our afterlife is in the inner space where we dream.

Click here to read more about The Astronaut's Tale composer Charles Fussell, librettist Jack Larson, cast for this NAOP performance and more!

Encompass Spring Opera at Symphony Space: Singing Stein!
April 27, 2012
Friday, 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm
at Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater (95th and Broadway, New York, NY)
Explore the vision, genius and wit of Gertrude Stein in music!
Ned Rorem’s Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
Virgil Thomson’s Capital Capitals
With texts by Gertrude Stein
Tickets: $30; Symphony Space Members $25; Under 30 $15.
For Tickets: online at www.Symphonyspace.org OR
Purchase tickets in person at the Symphony Space Box Office (Tues – Sun, 1pm – 6 pm)
Box Office: 212-864-5400. Address: 95th and Broadway.

Wall to Wall: Gertrude’s Paris
May 5, 2012
Saturday, 2:00pm (Entire Wall to Wall event begins at 11 am)
at Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
*There will also be a panel discussion with composer Ned Rorem and director Nancy Rhodes
moderated by Laura Kaminsky, Artistic Director of Symphony Space.
Admission is free to the Wall to Wall event.

Singing Stein! featuring Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters and Capital Capitals will be performed by Encompass New Opera Theatre, along with many exciting performances focused on Stein and her contemporaries.

A complement to the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition “The Steins Collect: Matisse Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde.”

You’re sitting outside on a cobblestone street, a glass of wine perched on your café table.  Salvador Dali and Man Ray walk by in heated discussion.  Django Reinhardt’s band is tuning up a few doors down, and you can’t stop tapping your feet as the hot beats seep out into the warm Paris evening.  Wafting down from 27 Rue de Fleurus is the scent of Alice’s famous fudge, as it’s another Saturday Salon at the Stein/Toklas household, and you’re invited.  Re-live this magical time of art in life and life in art at our annual free marathon - Wall to Wall: Gertrude’s Paris. -Symphony Space

Making Connections: Keys to a Successful Singer/Director Relationship (Sponsored by Opera America)
May 9, 2012
Wednesday, 7:00 pm
330 7th Avenue at 29th Street, 18th Floor
Artistic Director Nancy Rhodes and Director Kevin Newbury will be on a panel sponsored by Opera America.