Lady Psyche in Princess Ida
Dame Hannah in Ruddigore
Eliza Smith in The Zoo (by Sullivan and Rowe)

BaltiQWERT (a one-day sing out of five Gilbert & Sullivan works)
May 16th, 2026 from 9:30 – 5:30

Towson Unitarian Universalist Church
1710 Dulaney Valley Rd.
Lutherville, MD  2093

Flora/Anina in La Traviata

Center Stage Opera
Dates and Venues TBA

Harrisburg, PA

For info and Tickets, visit www.csopera.org

Cantor/Choral Resident

Ely Cathedral

August 16-23, 2027
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

For service times, visit www.elycathedral.org

Thanks to All Who Attended The Lost Recital 1915

On February 13, 1915, eighteen-year-old Dorothy Leona Jewell presented a classical voice recital in downtown Philadelphia that was the culmination of her intensive musical studies. Over the next three years, the young singer would marry and have a child, before succumbing to the Spanish flu pandemic, which claimed the lives of nearly 50,000 people in the city of Philadelphia alone and 5% of the population worldwide. 110 years later, in October 2025, mezzo-soprano Pamela Butler, pianist Mark Irchai, and guest student recitalist Lilli Hoehl, re-created Dorothy’s concert,
 in honor of her grandson, Paul Muench, on his 87th birthday. The recital became a joint benefit for Loudoun Lyric Opera (an organization founded by Butler which is now led by Irchai as Artistic Director) and the Lucketts Food Pantry, with over $5000 raised for the two nonprofits.

Read the Review

Click here to read the review in Opera Today:  https://operatoday.com/2025/10/historic-philadelphia-recital-comes-to-rural-virginia-with-loudoun-lyric-opera/

Watch the Recital

View the full recital here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EivHCpi84pA

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