61 N. Pineapple Ave.
Sarasota
FL 34236
“Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative: Opera and Theater”
with 2024 Hermitage Cross Arts Recipients Anthony Barrese (Opera) and Raleigh Mosely II (WBTT)
Presented in partnership with Sarasota Opera and Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
The Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative is made possible with generous support from The Koski Family Foundation.
Friday, December 13 at 5pm
Sarasota Opera House (entrance at 61 N. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
The Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative is an annual residency program focused on supporting the incredible talent of artists frequently featured on Sarasota stages. Now in its third year, we celebrate two artists who are injecting life into every note on the page. Anthony Barrese (Sarasota Opera) is a celebrated conductor who has worked at concert halls around the world. In his Cross Arts Residency at the Hermitage, he is pursuing his passion to meticulously transcribe lost operas so that they can be performed by today’s leading companies with new life. He is joined by a star of the Sarasota theater scene, Raleigh Mosely II (WBTT), a gifted singer and actor who is making a name for himself as a recording artist, writing and performing his own work. From very different angles, each of these artists makes music with a unique creative force. Hear selections and perceptions from these two talented musical artists.
Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative recipient Anthony Barrese has earned accolades as both a composer and a conductor in North America and Italy. Mr. Barrese is the recipient of numerous composition awards including a N.E.C. Contemporary Ensemble Composition Competition Award for his madrigale “a 3 voci femminili,” and two B.M.I. Student Composers Awards. As a musicologist, Mr. Barrese rediscovered, prepared, and edited the critical edition of Franco Faccio’s opera Amleto, in conjunction with Casa Ricordi. As Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Southwest, he has performed Rossini’s Otello with the American staged premiere of the finale lieto, and in 2014 he led the new world premiere of Amleto, not heard anywhere since 1871. He also notably led productions of Wagner’s Lohengrin (2019), a new world premiere of Bottesini’s Alì Babà (2019), and a company premiere of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (2021). As Music Director of Opera Delaware, he conducted the West Coast premiere of Amleto and the company premiere of Rossini’s Semiramide. Recently, he conducted new productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia and Le nozze di Figaro. In the 2023-24 season he will conduct new productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Florida Grand Opera) L’occasione fa il ladro and Bluebeard’s Castle (OSW), Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa (Sarasota), Turandot (Opera Delware), and make a company debut with Opera Santa Barbara (Armienta’s Zorro).
Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative artist Raleigh Mosely II has performed at various Hermitage programs and benefits. He made his Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe debut in the Summer 2017 production of Broadway in Black. Originally from Miami, he earned his BFA in musical theater from the University of Central Florida. His theater credits include Dreamgirls, In the Heights, HAIR, Ragtime, Broadbend, Arkansas, and The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee.