Jeffrey Gall, director of the opera workshop and head of the voice faculty at Montclair, is a countertenor who is well-known in opera houses throughout the world. David Wroe, perhaps best known locally as the conductor of the Westfield Symphony Orchestra, will collaborate with Gall, conducting the Montclair State Symphony Orchestra for the December opera performances. Weill, whose centenary we are celebrating this year, scored the gritty realism of a hot summer in lower Manhattan in the 1940s to the book of Elmer Rice and the lyrics of Langston Hughes. The production will be cosponsored by the MSU Great Events Series. The preliminary schedule of concerts for the upcoming academic year is listed below, and many more performances will be added throughout the summer and the academic year.
All programs are subject to change.