Teatro Grattacielo
2 Riverside Drive
2C
New York, NY
10023
212-595-7127

Our Intrepid Baritones

Aftermath of "Marat:" Grattacielo Baritones Take on the World!

After a wonderful full-page article in the New York Times and positive reviews from around the globe, we can easily say that our groundbreaking North American performance of Mascagni's 1921 masterpiece, Il Piccolo Marat was not only an unqualified success, but continues to cause a stir among our extraordinary audience. A well-deserved focus of many reviews was the masterly job of Maestro David Wroe, whose command of the assembled enormous musical forces was akin to marshaling an army.

Baritone Josh Benaim

Josh Benaim, the baritone who so movingly played The Soldier in Il Piccolo Marat will be making his Metropolitan Opera début in May 2010 as The Journalist in Alban Berg's complex, deeply moving opera, Lulu.  (...a different sort of verismo!)

Both Josh and Daniel Ihn-Kyu Lee (who played no less than three roles in Il Piccolo Marat), have been invited to audition at New York City Opera. Daniel Lee was offered an audition with Sarasota Opera and furthermore won the Connecticut Opera competition last week!

Baritone Daniel Ihn-Kyu Lee

Daniel will be going to Italy next week to sing in the Concorso Zandonai--he'll be singing arias from past Teatro Grattacielo productions: the Carpenter's aria from Piccolo Marat as well as Simonson's aria from Alfano's Risurrezione, and also Don Ferrante from Zandonai's La Farsa Amorosa (--something they will probably have never heard there before). Congratulations to our baritones, and we wish their professional trajectories a long rise.

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