A new series of recitals by rising opera stars will be among the leading attractions in the 2013-2014 season at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, the center in lower Manhattan has announced.
The first performance in the new opera series, known as VOCE at Pace: Rising Opera Stars in Recital, will feature American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton on Nov. 3.
Ms. Barton is the winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Grammy nominee, and 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World Winner. Paul Appleby and Nadine Sierra will perform later in the opera recital series.
The Schimmel opens its season on Sept. 21 with “Sonorama: The Lost Space Age Pop Music of Esquivel,†which the center describes as “a big band tribute to the late, great lounge legend†Juan Garcia Esquivel.
The center will also feature its “Art History Alive†lectures, which this year include discussions of the works of Raphael, Renoir and Frida Kahlo, among others.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 15, 2013
An earlier version of this post referred incorrectly to the gender of the mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton. Ms. Barton is a woman.
