Join Park City Opera at Park City’s Temple Har Shalom on the evening of July 25th for recital of opera and songs by Jewish composers. This event is free and open to members of the Temple community and their invited guests. Event start time provided upon RSVP: click the link here to RSVP.

Program (subject to change):

Laurie’s Song from The Tender Land (Aaron Copland)
I want magic and Sea air from A Streetcar Named Desire (Andre Previn)
Vidui from Baal Shem (Ernest Bloch)
Selections from Rückert-Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft!, Liebst du um Schönheit (Gustav Mahler)
lonely tree from towards the lonely tree (Benjamin Beckman)
Lied ohne Worte, Op. 85 No. 3 (Felix Mendelssohn)
Selections from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson: The world feels dusty, Heart, we will forget him (Copland)
Kantigas Ulvidadas: Prelude, Solo kon ti, Yo kon amor, Sivda de mi chikes (Ofer Ben-Amots)
Prelude, Op. 17 No. 21 (Felix Blumenfeld)
Hartley Songs: Confidence, Salutations to a Mouse, Fishmonger (Beckman)

Performer Biographies:

Intentional and intuitive in her artistry, Lena Goldstein is an American soprano who aspires to push the needle in classical music through entrepreneurial initiatives that put artists in the driver’s seats of their careers. She is currently pursuing her M.Mus at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samual Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in molecular biology. Lena’s recent appearances include with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Opera Department and New Music Ensemble, Chicago Summer Opera, Songfest, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. She is a versatile performer of opera with recent roles including The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Maurya (Riders to the Sea), Maggie (The Gift of the Magi), Serpina (La serva padrona), and Lady Angela (Patience). Her concert performances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Trois poèmes de Mallarmé, Muhly’s The Beauty of the Day, and premieres of Carlson’s The Disguise and Beckman’s Hartley Songs.  As an artistic administrator, Lena directed SFCM’s Hot Air Music Festival, works for the institution’s Department of Professional Development, and directed the Opera Theatre of Yale. She is interested in the intersection of visual arts and music, and was previously a tour guide at the Yale Center for British Art and intern for the Park City Arts Council. www.lenagoldstein.com.

Benjamin Beckman is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms and Tanglewood Music Festival and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. His 70-minute chamber opera Passage won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize for the best-submitted thesis in the music major at Yale, from which he recently matriculated. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Beckman has worked for the Sarasota Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera Company of Middlebury, Chicago Summer Opera, and Classic Lyric Arts France and Italy. While a student at Yale, Beckman was the Artistic Director of both the Opera Theater of Yale College and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, through which he facilitated the premieres of 21 student compositions. This fall, Beckman will pursue graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he will manage the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com.