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The Spanish Connection - Music of the Americas

The Spanish Connection - Music of the Americas

Sunday, March 15, 2026, 15:00 - Sunday, March 15, 2026, 17:00
Event duration 2 hours
General Admission: USD 20.00

About The Spanish Connection - Music of the Americas

Exotic, folk-song tinged music by Argentinian Alberto Ginastera, the sensual love poetry of Chilean Pablo Neruda set to music by Ray Luedeke

A star-studded cast of New York performers - tenor José Heredia, mezzo-soprano Donna Tonna, and pianist Amber Scherer - perform the folk-song tinged, exotic music of Argentinian Alberto Ginastera along with music set to the sensual love poetry of Chilean Pablo Neruda by Canadian/American composer Ray Luedeke, songs from his critically acclaimed opera-cabaret My Life with Pablo Neruda.

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Sunday, March 15, 2026, 15:00 Sunday, March 15, 2026, 17:00

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Voice Afire Opera-Cabaret

https://www.voiceafire.com/ 116 Pinehurst Ave. Apt. G51

Voice Afire Pocket Opera-Cabaret was born in the summer of 2007 at the Niagara International Music Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, home of the Shaw Festival. Working in collaboration with Tom Diamond, leading Opera Director and Dramaturg, and with Guillermo Verdecchia, one of Canada’s foremost playwrights, Artistic Director-Composer Ray Luedeke produced his first version of Butterfly's Trouble as well as his Tango Cabaret, Close Embrace, and a workshop production of My Life with Pablo Neruda. These shows, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by the Ontario Arts Council. were warmly received and subsequently toured in Canada. In 2010 Voice Afire Pocket Opera-Cabaret moved to New York City, where in 2012 a new version of Butterfly’s Trouble, vetted by Broadway Director, Choreographer, Dramaturg Jonathan Cerullo, ran for a week on off-off Broadway, to critical acclaim. Since 2012 Voice Afire has produced shows in New York City each year, the most recent being A Doll's House for 6 singers, piano, and synthesizer, and In Kharms Way, for string quartet and 2 actors.

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