Gordon Getty’s work featured in Festival Napa Valley vocal recital
- Dates: Friday, July 11, 2025, 12:00 PM (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Vally
- Venue: CIA at Copia Ecolab Theatre, 500 1st Street, Napa, CA
Festival Napa Valley presents soprano Alexandra Armantrading, baritone Lester Lynch, and pianist Kevin Korth in an intimate recital of song and operatic music that includes the world premiere of How Shall I Learn?—a new setting by Luna Pearl Woolf of Gordon Getty’s poem “Sonnet”—as well as the duet for Hostess and Falstaff from Getty’s opera Plump Jack. The program also includes music of Verdi, Barber, Berg, Schubert, Mahler, Poulenc and Bach.
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sings two songs by Gordon Getty at Festival Napa Valley opening
- Dates: Friday, July 11, 2025, 6:30 PM (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug, 2800 Main Street, St. Helena, CA
Festival Napa Valley presents Uytengsu Family Opening Night, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato singing songs and arias, including composer Luna Pearl Woolf’s world premiere orchestrations of two songs from Gordon Getty’s The White Election: “Beauty Crowds Me” and “The Going From a World We Know.” The program also features violinist Tessa Lark and the Festival Orchestra Napa, conducted by Clelia Cafiero.
Photo: Simon Pauly
Festival Napa Valley presents recital of Gordon Getty’s piano works by Forrest Eimold
- Dates: Monday, July 14, 2025, 11:00 AM (PST)
- Presenter: Festival Napa Valley
- Venue: CIA at Copia Ecolab Theatre, 500 1st Street, Napa, CA
Festival Napa Valley presents Festival Live! Forrest Eimold, with pianist-composer Forrest Eimold performing a program of Gordon Getty’s piano music. The program includes Four Traditional Pieces, selections from Ancestor Suite, First Adventure, Scherzo Pensieroso, the West Coast Premiere of Follow Me, and the World Premiere of Impenitent Ultima.
Screenings of “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” at Des Moines Metro Opera
- Dates: Saturday, July 12, 2025, 1:00 PM (CST) and Friday, July 18, 2025, 1:00 PM (CST)
- Presenter: Des Moines Metro Opera and Des Moines Film
- Venue: Varsity Cinema, 1207 25th Street, Des Moines, IA
Des Moines Metro Opera in partnership with Des Moines Film present two screenings of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Gordon Getty’s opera reimagined for film. Directed by Brian Staufenbiel and conducted by Nicolle Paiement, the film stars Nathan Granner, Marnie Breckenridge, Lester Lynch and Kevin Short.
View the “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” trailer here.