Jan
27
7:00 PM19:00
Verdi's La Traviata
Christina will perform the role of Flora in NJ Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata.
Dec
10
4:00 PM16:00
Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church’s 83rd Annual Candlelight Vespers Service
Christina will be a featured soloist for Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church’s 83rd Annual Candlelight Vespers Service
Nov
12
5:00 PM17:00
Rigoletto with NJ Lyric Opera
Christina will perform the role of Countess Ceprano and cover the role of Maddalena in NJ Lyric Opera’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Oct
28
7:30 PM19:30
Oral History Project Concert with Marshall Opera
Christina will be a featured singer in Marshall Opera’s inaugural concert, Oral History Project Concert at the Cell Theater. She will be collaborating with composer Alice Shields and will perform her composition Apocalypse Song from the Opera Apocalypse.
Mar
26
5:00 PM17:00
Nov
15
5:00 PM17:00
"Into the Night"
http://dellarteopera.org/2020/11/into-the-night-christina-esser-mezzo-soprano/
Aug
29
8:00 PM20:00
Anna Bolena- CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Christina will be performing as Giovanna Seymour with Dell’arte Opera Ensemble in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.
Aug
26
8:00 PM20:00
Anna Bolena- CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Christina will be performing as Giovanna Seymour with Dell’arte Opera Ensemble in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.
Aug
22
8:00 PM20:00
Anna Bolena- CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Christina will be performing as Giovanna Seymour with Dell’arte Opera Ensemble in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.
Aug
22
6:00 PM18:00
Silent Voices
Silent Voices,
A multimedia recital
This recital will be a multimedia journey featuring works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gaetano Donizetti, W.A Mozart, and Franz Schubert. Produced by Christina Esser (mezzo-soprano, piano, digital art, videography, and editing), with special guests, soprano Angel Riley, and Da Yoon Kang, cello. The link will be posted closer to the date of the recital. To RSVP to the event page, click Here.
Suggested donation is $10. I would like all donations to go to Dell'arte Opera Ensemble in New York. This company has been extremely generous to its young artists, providing intensive zoom coachings and workshops this summer. They honored their young artists contracts despite Covid-19 cancellations, and provided relief funds to their alumni. Click this link to donate. https://www.facebook.com/dellarteopera
Click here for program notes and translations
Aug
15
6:00 PM18:00
Lily Sassoon "A New Direction for Opera"
“ A New Direction for Opera”, hosted by MidAdlantic Opera Company and Music Matters 2020 with Jason Tramm.
Christina Esser will be one of the featured artists from the Sassoon Artists Management roster.
To View this lecture and hear the Sassoon Artists, click here.
May
18
to May 29
Opera in the Schools- CANCELED DUE TO COVID
Christina will join Bernardo Bermudez (Tenor), Ben Lowe (Baritone), and Katy Tang (soprano) in the Palm Springs Opera Guild’s outreach program, “Opera in the Schools” for a 11 day outreach tour.
May
15
1:00 PM13:00
Palm Springs Opera Guild Artist Virtual Concert Fundraiser
Christina will be a featured young artist for a virtual concert fundraiser with the Palm Springs Opera Guild. Click here to view the trailer.
May
11
to May 12
Ginger Costa-Jackson Zoom Masterclass
Christina will perform one of Giovanna Seymour’s excerpts, “Ella di me sollecita”, from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena.
Mar
9
8:00 PM20:00
Love Encrypted- An MM Recital
Christina Esser will perform selections from Jake Heggie, Hector Berlioz, Manuel De Falla, MIkhail, and Ippolitov Ivanov
Feb
22
7:30 PM19:30
Jan
12
4:00 PM16:00
Societé d'Allegro Gala
Christina will be a featured young artist along with soprano Anastasia Malliaras. They will both be performing a selection of arias and a duet.
Click Here for more information
Sep
11
11:00 AM11:00
Jul
12
to Jul 13
Hawaii Performing Arts Festival: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Christina will perform the role of Hermia in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
For tickets and information click Here
Jul
3
4:00 PM16:00
Hawaii Performing Arts Festival: Red, White, and Blues
Christina will perform selections from the Great American Song Book such as “Moon River” by Henry Mancini and “Something Wonderful” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I.
For tickets click Here
May
21
8:00 PM20:00
Opera UCLA: Lost Childhood World Premier
Christina will perform the role of Mrs. Krawczyck
For more Information click here
May
17
8:00 PM20:00
Opera UCLA: Lost Childhood World Premier
Christina will perform the role of Mrs. Krawczyck
For more Information click here
Apr
6
8:00 PM20:00
Opera UCLA: Juana- World premier workshop reading
Christina will sing the title role in the world premier workshop reading of Juana with Opera UCLA
For more information click here
Feb
26
11:00 AM11:00
Masterclass with Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung
Christina will perform the aria “All’afflitto è dolce il pianto” from Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux
For more information click Here
Jan
2
12:00 PM12:00
Repertory Opera Company: Music at Noon
Christina will be performing arias by Rossini, Mozart, and Heggie
Dec
16
1:30 PM13:30
Idyllwild Master Chorale and Orchestra Winter Concert
ADULTS $25 STUDENTS $10
Gloria ~ Antonio Vivaldi
Highlights from The Messiah ~ George Frideric Handel
French & Spanish Carols
Contemporary Selections
Christmas Jazz with John Rodby, Sherry Williams, John Fleming, Charles Owen, Marshall Hawkins Quintet
Christina Esser, mezzo-soprano soloist
For more information click here
Dec
15
7:30 PM19:30
Idyllwild Master Chorale and Orchestra Winter Concert
ADULTS $25 STUDENTS $10
Gloria ~ Antonio Vivaldi
Highlights from The Messiah ~ George Frideric Handel
French & Spanish Carols
Contemporary Selections
Christmas Jazz with John Rodby, Sherry Williams, John Fleming, Charles Owen, Marshall Hawkins Quintet
Christina Esser: Mezzo-soprano soloist
For more info click here
Nov
17
8:00 PM20:00
Opera UCLA: Bernstein's Songfest
Overview
For two mezzo-sopranos, tenor, baritone, bass, and orchestra
I. "To the Poem" (Frank O'Hara)
II. "The Pennycandystore Beyond the El" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
III. "A Julia de Burgos" (Julia de Burgos)
IV. "To What You Said" (Walt Whitman)
V. "I, Too, Sing America" (Langston Hughes) / "Okay 'Negroes' " (June Jordan)
VI. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (Anne Bradstreet)
VII. "Storyette H. M." (Gertrude Stein)
VIII. "If you can't eat you got to" (e.e. cummings)
IX. "Music I Heard With You" (Conrad Aiken)
X. "Zizi's Lament" (Gregory Corso)
XI. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
XII. "Israfel" (Edgar Allan Poe)
Christina Esser will perform one of the mezzo-soprano solos and other ensemble pieces.
Source: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/opera-ucla-bernsteins-songfest/
Nov
13
3:00 PM15:00
Sacha Cooke Masterclass
Mezzo-soprano, Sasha Cooke comes to UCLA to teach a masterclass to Opera UCLA students. Cooke is currently singing the role of Hänsel in Hänsel and Gretel at LA Opera. Don’t miss Sasha Cooke as she shares her wisdom with young singers on Tuesday, November 20 from 3-6pm at the Ensemble Room in the Evelyn & Mo Ostin Music Center, followed by a Q&A.
Christina will perform the aria “This Journey” from Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking .
Sep
19
12:00 PM12:00