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Great Artists Series, Faculty & Guest Performances, Ticketed

Great Artists Series '26: Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor and Bryan Wagorn, piano

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$35-40 General Admission
$32-37 WashU Faculty/Staff
$15 Students/Youth

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Program

Quella Fiamma by G.F. Handel
Gelido in Ogni Vena by Antonio Vivaldi

Supplication and Compensation by Joel Thompson

Works by Franz Liszt:
Im Rhein in Schone Strome
Uber Allen Gipfeln ist Ruh
Hohe Liebe
Ihr Glocken von Marling

INTERMISSION

Villanelle by Hector Berlioz
L’Invitation Au Voyage by Henri Duparc
Non T’accostare A L’urna by Giuseppe Verdi

Works by Philip Glass:
Liquid Days
In the Arc of Your Mallet
The Encounter

Works by George Gershwin:
The Man I Love 
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm 

**All programs subject to change
 

“Vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless”
- The New York Times

“A bona-fide star” - The New Yorker“A perfect musician” - Le Monde

Biographies

Anthony Roth Costanzo

GRAMMY-winning Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia, and the Artistic Director of SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. He has with appeared many of the world’s leading opera companies and orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, and NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, among others. He has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Kabuki-Za Tokyo, The Guggenheim, The Park Avenue Armory, and Little Island. As a producer, he has created projects for The Paris Opera, The New York Philharmonic, The BBC Proms, WQXR, and St. Ann’s Warehouse among others. Costanzo graduated with honors from Princeton University, and Manhattan School of Music, where he is now on the board of trustees along with being on the board of National Black Theater. A winner of the Met Opera Competition and Operalia, Costanzo also has an Honorary Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a History Makers Award from the New York Historical, has been a visiting fellow Oxford University, and a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard. He has been in a Merchant Ivory film and has a forthcoming book for Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.  

Bryan Wagorn

Canadian-American pianist Bryan Wagorn serves as Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera. He has appeared on such television and radio stations as Good Morning America, WQXR and CBC Radio. He regularly performs with the Met Chamber Ensemble in concerts at Carnegie Hall and performed as pianist in the Met’s Grammy-winning productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in my Bones and Champion. He recently performed the role of pianist Boleslao Lazinski onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in their 2023 production of Giordano’s Fedora directed by David McVicar, the role having been last performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. As a conductor he collaborated with Angel Blue and the LA Opera on a digital short film with music by David Lang directed by Bill Morrison. He also performed and recorded on the Met Museum’s Cristofori fortepiano, the oldest such instrument in existence. In 2022 he performed in Carnegie Hall’s gala fundraiser for Ukraine in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium along such artists as Angel Blue, Denyce Graves, Isabel Leonard, Midori, and Evgeny Kissin. 

Mr. Wagorn has been engaged by summer festivals including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Marlboro, Seiji Ozawa’s Matsumoto festival, and has served on the faculties of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada’s Summer Music Institute, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. He has performed with internationally acclaimed artists including Angel Blue, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Midori, Nadine Sierra, and Pinchas Zukerman. He has been a guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto, the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Glynebourne’s Jerwood Young Artist Program, and the McGill Schulich School of Music. 

He made his solo recital debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2009 and has also appeared at the Library of Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hamburg Opera, Summer Stage in New York’s Central Park, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and he has also toured extensively with Jeunesses Musicales. He has also performed recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Richard Tucker Foundation, and George London Foundation. Mr. Wagorn is on the advisory boards of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation and the Bagby Foundation, and serves on faculty at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, the Mannes College of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. 

Mr. Wagorn is a Steinway artist.
 

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