Empire Opera: Reminder: Celebrate Christmas is Next Week, Dec. 19, 7:30 PM

REMINDER Celebrate Christmas! is next week! Join us for an evening of opera scenes and  Carols from  around the world.   Thursday, December 19, 2019 7:30PM Norwegian Seamen's Church 317 E 52nd St New York, NY 10022 Suggested Donation: $20 Children 12 and under always FREE Refreshments after website:  www.empireopera.org email:  info@empireopera.org SONG LEAVES is a new collection for bass voice and  piano.  The poetry is from Leaves of Grass by Walt  Whitman. 2019 is the 200th Anniversary year of Whitman's  birth.  Get a copy for Christmas and celebrate  Whitman's poetry in this new work composed by  Waundell Saavedra with Tor Morten Kjøsnes,  pianist. To be released December 2019. See the perks offered in the Indiegogo fundraising  campaign here: https://igg.me/at/songleaves

January 2020 Don't miss this special recital featuring: SONGS AND DANCES OF DEATH (Mussorgsky) Chantelle Grant, mezzo soprano VIER ERNSTE GESÄNGE (Brahms) Waundell Saavedra, bass VIER LETZTE LIEDER (Strauss) Lara Ryan, soprano with maestro Michael Shane Wittenburg, pianist January 30, 2020 7:30PM St. Philip's Church in Harlem 204 W. 134th St., NYC Suggested donation: $20