Opera soloist Anthony Roth Costanzo to join Pipino Performing Arts Series
February 26, 2021
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, a headlining Metropolitan Opera soloist and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year, will give a virtual presentation and masterclass Wednesday and Thursday, as part of the Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series.
Costanzo will give a virtual presentation Wednesday at 7:00 PM and will present a virtual masterclass Thursday at 4:00 PM. Both events are free and open to the public. The events can be accessed via the Pipino Performing Arts website.
“Anthony Roth Costanzo continues our semester of internationally acclaimed performers who have joined us this season,” Cliffe College of Creative Arts dean Phyllis Paul said. “As a countertenor, he has been called ‘vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless’ by The New York Times, ‘otherworldly’ by The Wall Street Journal, and ‘a perfect musician’ by Le Monde. Once you’ve watched his presentations, I think you’ll agree he’s all those things and more.”
Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in operas, concerts, recitals, films, and on Broadway. He has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and Teatro Real Madrid, among others. In concert, he has sung with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Costanzo’s debut album, “ARC,” was nominated for best classical solo vocal album at the 2019 Grammy Awards. He was selected as a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions and won first prize in Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. He was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his role in Merchant Ivory’s film “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries.”
Costanzo has also spent time working as a producer and curator in addition to being a performer, creating shows for National Sawdust, Opera Philadelphia, the Philharmonia Baroque, Princeton University, WQXR, The State Theater in Salzburg, Master Voices, and Kabuki-Za Tokyo.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey, a MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellow, will perform in the final event of the 2020-21 Pipino Performing Arts Series Wednesday, April 14.