On Sat., Jan. 30, the New England Concert Opera Players, under the direction of Aram Demirjian, will perform a concert version of Mozart’s masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro.” The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel, on 735 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Admission is $5 at the door, with students admitted at no charge.
The opera will feature among the most talented young singers and instrumentalists in the Greater Boston area, including current and former students from Boston University’s Opera Institute, New England Conservatory, and Harvard University, as well as other local professional and student musicians. Leading roles include Sonja Tengblad (soprano) as Susanna, Kara Harris (mezzo-soprano) as Countess Rosina Almaviva, Joshua Taylor (baritone) as Count Almaviva, and Graham Wright (bass) as Figaro. The production, abridged for concert purposes, will include original narration by Harvard graduate in English and music, Catherine Powell.
Aram Demirjian is currently pursuing his master’s degree in orchestral conducting with Hugh Wolff at the New England Conservatory. Prior to his graduate studies, Demirjian attended Harvard University where he served for two years as music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra. He was one of only two students with such a distinction in the history of the prestigious orchestra. He has also studied at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors, and this upcoming summer, he will attend the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, studying under David Zimman. Demirjian was selected last year to conduct internationally famed cellist YoYo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Last summer, he assumed the role of musical director of the Long Island Youth Symphony Orchestra and toured with them on the eastern coast of the U.S. and Canada, in Eastern Europe and Iceland.
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