Chelsea Opera

Chelsea Opera presents fully staged operas in an intimate performance spaces both in NYC & CNY A second NEA grant supports November 2015’s

Founded in 2004 by Lynne Hayden-Findlay and Leonarda Priore, Chelsea Opera launches its 12th Season in 2015-2016. From its very first production, Suor Angelica, to 2015’s Tosca, and a variety of standard and contemporary operas in between, Chelsea Opera has been acknowledged for the quality and artistry of its productions. In 2007 Lee Hoiby's The Scarf gave the company its first experience working

with a living composer, allowing the company to embrace Tom Cipullo’s proposal to produce his opera Glory Denied. The work was intriguing, its subject compelling, and its chamber orchestration and compact staging perfectly suited to Chelsea Opera’s capacity. Furthermore, it offered another opportunity to work side by side with a living composer. The 2010 production won raves from The New York Times and Opera News, bringing the company into the national spotlight, and establishing Chelsea Opera’s position in the world of contemporary opera. Since then, composers have submitted new works to the company resulting in the world premiere of the Harris/Quinn one-act, The Mark of Cain (November 2012), and a Manhattan premiere of Fagin/Quinn’s A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abigail Adams (June 2013), and the regional premiere of Mollicone’s Emperor Norton (November 2014). Composers, opera producers, critics, and donors have commented on the consistently high quality of Chelsea Opera’s productions: “I was especially impressed with the quality of the voices and the high level of the orchestra” (Ben Moore, composer). “You work hard to get the best singers in the city and get the word out, not a small feat in NY, and it shows” (Rina Elisha, New Rochelle Opera). “The performers and production did everything possible to make the opera a success” (Opera News on The Mark of Cain). Chelsea Opera opened its 10th Anniversary season in 2013 with Ballymore – Part 1: Winners by Richard Wargo and Seymour Barab’s La Pizza con Funghi. Two concerts featuring contemporary works, More Songs for My Brother and Musical Portraits…the songs of Anne Phillips, Ben Moore and Tom Cipullo followed and Act 1 of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s The Sleeping Beauty was workshopped in July 2013 with excerpts performed with orchestra in January 2014 in collaboration with the Bloomingdale School of Music. Subsequent productions have included the 50th Anniversary production of Aaron Copland's The Tender Land using Murry Sidlin’s reduced orchestration, and Tosca with an enlarged chamber orchestra. Chelsea Opera presented Henry Mollicone’s The Face on the Barroom Floor and the Regional Premiere of Emperor Norton, conducted by the composer. The company took A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abigail Adams to Quincy (MA) for one performance at the Adams National Historical Park, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts – Art Works program.

11/28/2025

Email from Chelsea Opera Monday, December 22, 2025 - 8pm at St. Paul & St. Andrews UMC Check out Bending Towards the Light's 40th Year Celebration feature with I Love the Upper West Side! Chelsea

11/05/2025

Email from Chelsea Opera Monday, December 22, 2025 - 8pm at St. Paul & St. Andrews UMC Chelsea Arts Live & Kindred Spirits present: Bending Towards the Light ...A Jazz Nativity Composed by Anne Ph

10/14/2025

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Email from Chelsea Opera Friday, Aug 15, 2025 - 7pm at The Other Side, Utica, NY Chelsea Arts Live presents: Jazz and Art with the Tom Brigandi Quartet Fri, August 15, 2025 - 7:00-8:30 pm The Othe

05/31/2025

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04/15/2025

We are pleased to present "Favorites in Concert" on May 31 at 7 PM in collaboration with Clinton Symphony Orchestra of the Mohawk Valley at the Clinton Performing Arts Complex (75 Chenango Ave N, Clinton, NY). Music Director Octavio Mas-Arocas will not only bring vocal favorites from La Boheme and Tosca featuring soprano Julia Ebner and tenor Lucas Levy, but also Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "The New World." Tickets at clintonsymphonyorchestra.org/events-/csomv-spring-masterworks-and-youth-concert-dates-to-be-determind

03/06/2025

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02/14/2025

Email from Chelsea Opera Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 7pm at The Salerno Room What better gift for your Valentine than tickets to... Chelsea Arts Live & St. Mary of Mt. Carmel/Blessed Sacrament Pari

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