Schedule

A Baroque New Year’s Eve at the Opera

Messiah

G.F. Handel

A Baroque Christmas

Messiah

G.F. Handel

UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Scott Hanoian, conductor

Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Eric Jurenas, countertenor
Lunga Eric Hallam, tenor
Christian Simmons, bass-baritone

Hill Auditorium

825 North University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Eric will be leading the solo vocal curriculum for The Governor’s School for Visual and Performing Arts at Radford University.

The Governor’s School for Visual & Performing Arts and Humanities serves rising junior and senior high school students by providing impactful and dynamic college learning experiences.

Since their inception in 1973, the Virginia Governor’s Schools have been providing some of the state’s most able students with academically challenging and enriching programs that reach far beyond what is offered in their public school. With the support of the General Assembly and the Board of Education, the Governor’s Schools include summer residential, summer regional, and academic-year programs. Educational opportunities are available in science, mathematics, technology, the arts, and humanities. Participants’ experiences are consistent with Virginia’s Standards of Learning as identified by the Virginia Department of Education.

Learn more here.

The Comet / Poppea

COMPOSED BY GEORGE LEWIS
LIBRETTO BY DOUGLAS KEARNEY
CONCEPT & DIRECTION BY YUVAL SHARON

Please check website for confirmation of Eric’s specific performance dates/times.

The Comet / Poppea brings together seemingly disparate worlds connected by stories of cultural transformation. The work juxtaposes Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea), an Italian opera from 1643 unfolding among the social divisions of ancient Rome; and the world premiere of The Comet, based on the 1924 science-fiction short story by sociologist and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Set in 1920s New York City, “The Comet” depicts a Black man and white woman as the only survivors after a comet hits Earth.

More information and tickets can be found here.

The Hours

Composer: Kevin Puts
Librettist: Greg Pierce

Eric sings the role of Man Under Arch/Hotel Clerk.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s hit new opera, which played to sold-out audiences during its world-premiere production last season, triumphantly returns. The original trio of legendary divas—sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato—reprise their celebrated portrayals of three women from different eras whose lives are connected through Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway. Bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen also returns as the dying author Richard, and Kensho Watanabe conducts Phelim McDermott’s gripping staging of this heart-wrenching drama, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel and the Oscar-winning film it inspired.

More information and tickets here.

El Niño

Composer: John Adams
Conductor: Marin Alsop
Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz

Eric will sing the third countertenor role in the Male Ensemble.

Eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met after a decade-long hiatus for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio, which incorporates sacred and secular texts in English, Spanish, and Latin, from biblical times to the present day, in an extraordinarily dramatic retelling of the Nativity.

More information and tickets here.

Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss

Eric sings the role of Prince Orlofsky in Barrie Kosky’s new production in Munich.

Barrie Kosky affords the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and focuses on its morbid side. The scene is Vienna, city of the golden operetta era, where Die Fledermaus celebrated its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in 1874. The revenge of the bat becomes a nightmare for Gabriel von Eisenstein and many others. A society, an entire city dances towards the abyss. To take revenge on his friend Eisenstein, Dr Falke, alias the bat, orchestrates a misunderstanding with Prince Orlofsky. A marquis and a chevalier, a countess and budding artists meet here for a raucous party. Glasses clink, relationships are strained, there is loving, lying and dancing. They party ‘til the cows come home, always believing: “Happy are those who forget …”

More information and tickets here.

Messiah

GF Handel

Alto Soloist

A Bay Area holiday tradition now in its 25th year, ABS’s performances of Handel’s timeless work have become an essential part of the musical year for many music lovers and have attracted audiences of more than 50,000 from around the world.

More information here.