CANCELLED - Coffee and Conversation with Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Due to expected severe weather, the Coffee and Conversation with Anthony Roth Costanzo is cancelled.
Join us for a conversation, coffee, and donuts with Anthony Roth Costanzo.
We are excited to kick off this amazing Great Artists Series with the one and only Anthony Roth Costanzo—internationally acclaimed countertenor and General Director & President of Opera Philadelphia. Following his performance on Sunday, January 25th, join us that Monday at 10 AM for an intimate and engaging morning with Anthony for Coffee & Conversation.
In addition to his celebrated performing career, Anthony is redefining what opera leadership can look like today. Since stepping into his role at Opera Philadelphia, he is considered "now the most innovative impresario in the USA" (STL Today). He has championed bold initiatives focused on accessibility, audience growth, and reimagining how opera connects with communities, bringing the perspective of an active artist directly into the executive suite.
Over coffee, Anthony will share insights into his dual life as performer and arts leader, his creative process, and his vision for the future of opera, moderated by WashU's Professor Tod Decker. This informal conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear from an artist who is shaping the art form both onstage and behind the scenes, with an electric energy.
“Vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless”
- The New York Times“A bona-fide star” - The New Yorker“A perfect musician” - Le Monde
Biography
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.
Todd Decker
Todd Decker is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music and a member of the faculty of the Program in Film and Media Studies. He has published five books (most recently Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer) and over thirty articles and book chapters on popular music and media in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Decker regularly introduces film screenings at the Hi-Pointe Theatre.