After years of dragging my feet, I have finally taken the leap to actually purchasing server space and a real domain name for…………….
My Very Own Website!
I’m sure it will be a work in progress for some time, but for the moment I’ve got it set up in blog format similar to this one. From this day forward, I will only be posting news and updating that site as my current and primary website. I’ll leave this one published for a while until it seems reasonable to take it down.
So without further ado…….I invite you to visit www.matthewcurran.net.
Come by anytime. I’ll leave the light on. 
I am very pleased to be joining the New York Virtuoso Singers for an amazingly unique and interesting program of contemporary choral music. Not only we will be singing in English, Latin, German and Portuguese, and some sort of ancient greek, we’ll be accompanied on different pieces by a trombone choir and what is said to be one of the best saxophone quartets in the world, The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.
In a program of contemporary choral music, the ensemble of singers will only be 12 people, so it should make for a beautiful and intimate sounding of these very complex and intriguing works. Furthermore, the acoustics in the beautiful church where we’re performing are fantastic. This should prove to be a unique and rare musical experience of the utmost caliber.
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For a Google Maps look at the location, click here.
For further information and tickets, visit The New York Virtuoso Singers website.
January 10th and 16th.
A Gripping Tale of Blackmail and Lies that Threaten to Send an Innocent Young Woman to her Death . . .
I am very much looking forward to singing a fantastic role in Susanna, an oratorio by Handel on the apocryphal tale of Susanna and the elders (Book of Daniel). This is the same story on which the great American opera, Carlyle Floyd’s Susanna is also based.
I will be joining the Hudson Valley Singers and the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra as the 2nd Elder with two awesome arias among other numbers and a whole mess of bad intentions. Performances are on Sunday, January 10 in White Plains, NY and Saturday, January 16 in New York City. For more information, visit the Hudson Valley Singers website.
I am very much looking forward to returning to the role of Ignaz Semmelweis in this performance with American Opera Projects at the Galapagos Arts Space in the “Dumbo” area of Brooklyn. It’s a great piece and a wonderful role for me.
AOP presents the true story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis who battled the
19th-century European medical establishment and his own personal demons to convince the world he had discovered what was killing mothers at a horrific rate.
This a really cool, unique venue. Enjoy cocktails in a space with an ultra chill vibe and lounge seating over water! You can check out their photo tour here.
For more information and tickets, visit here.
I’m very happy to announce that I have recently joined the roster at Pinnacle Arts Management and am now working with John Miller. May it be a long and fruitful partnership.
I will be singing the role of The Player in a workshop performance of scenes from this Opera in Progress. Based on the play by Tom Stoppard, the opera is being written by Herschel Garfein. These performances will be conducted by Steve Osgood and directed by Mark Morris. For more info on the performances, check out the American Opera Projects website.
Friday, November 20 & Saturday November 21, 2009 – 4 PM
Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
ADMISSION: $20.00
Tickets go on sale Oct 1, 2009.
On October 14th, I will be joining the American Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of the opera Fervaal by Vincent D’Indy. Performing in the modest role of Penvald, one of the druid chiefs, this will mark my debut at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center!
On Oct. 9th and 10th, I will be singing with the Collegiate Chorale in the live sound track performance of the showing of the movie “The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” at Radio City Music Hall. Should be pretty cool. With this, I will be adding Elvish to my languages sung.
Shining Brow by Daron Hagen
Naxos recently released a very nice CD of a concert performance with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
(Click on the album cover for info and purchasing from Naxos)
Official Website for the opera can be found here.
To hear my Arietta, Aria, and a cool scene with me and Robert Orth as Frank Lloyd Wright,
click Shining Brow Clips.
