Join us at the Meyer Gallery on historic Main St. for a pop-up performance of opera arias performed by local talent and visiting artists. This event will take place during the Park City Gallery Association monthly Gallery Stroll, which takes place on the last Friday of each month from 6-9pm. Free and open to the public, no tickets required.

Program (subject to change):

Love, let the wind cry (Moore)
I want magic and Sea Air from A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn)
Ah love, but a day (Beach)
Silent Noon (Vaughan Williams)
Depuis le jour from Louise (Charpentier)
Batti, batti from Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Je veux vivre from Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
Quando m’en vo from La bohème (Puccini)
Hartley Songs: Confidence, Salutations to a Mouse, Fishmonger (Beckman)
Laurie’s Song from The Tender Land (Copland)
O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)

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.