Join Park City Opera as we return to Temple Har Shalom for an afternoon of opera, Jewish music, and community. We will perform selections by Korngold, Offenbach, Whitacre, and more. This event is free to attend. Specific timing will be provided upon registration –

Temple members and their guests can click here to RSVP.

For other members of the community, click here to RSVP.

Please bring a government form of ID for check-in and security purposes.

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Program (subject to change):

Simchas Torah from Baal Shem (Ernest Bloch)
Drei Lieder, Op. 22 (Erich Korngold)
     I. Was du mir bist?
     II. Mit dir zu schweigen
     III. Welt ist stille eingeschlafen
Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen from Die tote Stadt (Korngold)
Four Songs (Hanns Eisler)
     Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt
     Ändere die Welt, sie braucht es
     Die Heimkehr
     Und ich werde nicht mehr sehen
Five Hebrew Love Songs (Eric Whitacre)
I. Temuná
II. Kalá kallá
III. Laróv
IV. Eyze shéleg!
V. Rakút
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Gustav Mahler)
     I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
     II. Ging heut’ Morgen über’s Felt
     III. Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer
     IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz
Three Songs (Kurt Weill)
     What good would the moon be
     Lost in the stars
     I’m a stranger here myself
Selections from Les contes d’Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)
     Elle a fui, la tourterelle
     Belle nuit

Performer Biographies

Equally at home on operatic, concert, and recital stages, baritone John Allen (Guest Artist) enthralls audiences with his dramatic and richly musical portrayals. His 2024-25 season includes recitals in Berlin and Salt Lake City, appearing as Don Galoppo in Baroque Opera Berlin’s production of La Fantesca, and as part of Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Past operatic roles include Gianni Schicchi, Scarpia, Enrico, Germont, Rigoletto, Leporello, Conte Almaviva, and Sweeney Todd. Featured as soloist with Utah Opera, Lyrical Opera Theater, Opera Contempo, Salt Lake Symphony, Southwest Symphony, American West Symphony, Utah Valley Symphony, Paradigm Chamber Orchestra, Sound of Ages, Moab Music Festival, Park City Chamber Music Festival, and Cathedral of the Madeleine, John has also been presented at Carnegie Hall, Snape Maltings, Abravanel Hall, and the Vatican. In addition to summer studies at Chautauqua and Aspen, John holds a B.Mus from BYU in Violin Performance, and M.Mus and D.M.A. degrees in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting from the University of Utah. www.johnknightallen.com

Lena Goldstein (Executive Director, Park City Opera) is an American soprano who has made recent appearances with Vox Opera, San Francisco Conservatory, Songfest, Chicago Summer Opera, Opera Theatre of Yale, Yale Baroque Opera, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale Chamber Orchestra. Her recent roles include The Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), La Fée (Cendrillon), Eurinda (Doriclea), Nora (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. Lena works off-stage to enhance the artistic landscape for emerging professionals through entrepreneurial initiatives. She is Executive Director of Park City Opera, directed the Hot Air New Music Festival, and managed the Opera Theatre of Yale College. She is pursuing her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory as the recipient of the Samuel Clark Scholarship, and recently graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor’s in molecular biology. www.lenagoldstein.com

Winner of the 2021 Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts from Yale University and recipient of a 2020 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Lisl Wangermann (Director of Development, Park City Opera) is a soprano who has performed with the CIM Opera Theater, Opera Western Reserve, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Yale College, and the Yale Baroque Opera Project. Lisl served as the Managing Director for the Opera Theatre of Yale College (OTYC) in 2019. During her tenure, OTYC expanded its season from two shows to four and doubled the number of singers involved in each season. After graduating from Yale in 2021, Lisl moved to Cleveland to pursue her master’s in voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Lisl earned her master’s degree in 2023 and is currently continuing her vocal studies at CIM as an Artist’s Diploma candidate. www.lislwangermannsoprano.com

Hugh Palmer (Guest Artist) has been a member of the violin section in the Utah Symphony since 2016 and is currently serving as Acting 2nd Associate Concertmaster. Previously, he was a fellow with the New World Symphony, serving as concertmaster under the batons of Michael Tilson-Thomas, Roberto Abbado, and others. He has also appeared as guest concertmaster with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and formerly served as concertmaster of the Colburn Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, and the Young Musician’s Foundation Debut Orchestra. Originally from Minnesota, Hugh began his violin studies at the age of 5, studying with Mary West and then Sally O’Reilly. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Northwestern University, studying with Almita Vamos, and was a prize winner in the Thaviu Endowed Scholarship competition. He subsequently received his Artist’s Diploma from the Colburn Conservatory under the tutelage of Robert Lipsett.

Benjamin Beckman (Artistic Director, Park City Opera) is a composer, conductor, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Compositional career highlights include performances on the BBC Proms, Tanglewood Music Festival, and Royal Concertgebouw Summer Concerts, 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. As a pianist, assistant conductor, and vocal coach, Benjamin 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. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he manages the conservatory’s new music ensemble, the Thornton Edge. www.benjaminbeckmanmusic.com