Jarrod Lee

Colline in "Boheme" with Maryland Opera's "Morte e Vita!"
2024-11-17 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
The operas of Puccini reach our hearts and souls perhaps more than any other composer. Generations of opera lovers attest to these immortal stories of life and death that are limned with music of superlative emotional power. These three great finales represent profound tragedy and passion but also teach us about the power and indomitable resilience of our human spirit. Join us for an evening of tears, revelation, and unending beauty. – Maryland Opera
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Program:
Manon Lescaut / Act 4
Madama Butterfly / Act 3
20min Intermission
La Boheme / Act 4
Photo: Maryland Opera
*Sung in Italian with English Surtitles

In Concert with Baltimore Musicales' "Around the World in Sacred Song"
2024-10-27 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | The Inter-Faith Chapel, 3680 S Leisure World Blvd, Silver Spring, 20906, United States
This multi-faith journey includes songs, duets, and ensembles by Georges Bizet, Moses Hogan, Felix Mendelssohn, César Franck, John Harbison, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Debbie Friedman, and more performed by Min Jin, Jarrod Lee, Claire Galloway, Thea Tullman Moore, and pianist John Henderson. Hear stunning arrangements of beloved hymns and sacred texts, prayers for healing, spirituals, rousing texts by a 16th century Hindu poetess, Korean worship music, and Jewish folk songs. The program will be followed by a reception—the perfect opportunity to meet the artists and fellow music lovers in the community. – Baltimore Musicales

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Two Corners by B.E. Boykin and Jarrod Lee
2024-06-30 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-06-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Monroe Community College Theater, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd, Rochester, 14623, United States
Synopsis: Florine Boykin leads her childhood friend Sarah down memory lane by the nostalgic power of a radio to examine and review their friendship in the midst of racial tension surrounding them in the segregated and rural town of Wedowee, Alabama. Their bond is tested as they revisit memories and confront their shared past from different perspectives. Can their friendship survive the mid-twentieth century racial disparities, or was their friendship a part of their imagination?

Performances: June 28th and June 30th / Tickets range $45 to $65.
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Link to Creative Team, Cast, and Production for Two Corners

Atlanta Opera's 96 Hour Opera Project / Opera TBA by Timothy Amukele and Jarrod Lee
2024-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Ray Charles Performing Arts Center, 900 West End Ave, Atlanta, 30310, United States
Now in its third season, the 96-Hour Opera Festival celebrates emerging creative talents from historically under-recognized communities and offers a path into the art of opera. After two years in development, we proudly present the first world premiere emerging from this program with Norris & Ebo’s Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier). The 96-Hour Opera Project Showcase is open to the public, and five more world-premiere mini-operas are presented to the judging panel in an exciting race for the Antinori Foundation Grand prize. — Atlanta Opera
In this competition, Jarrod Lee (librettist) and Timothy Amukele (composer) will present a 10min opera to Atlanta with for the opportunity to win the grand prize.
Link to tickets for the ATL Opera 96 Hour Opera Festival June 17th at 7pm

Behind the Curtain: Two Corners Panel Discussion
2024-05-22 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Kilbourn Hall The Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street, Rochester, NY, 14604, United States
Finger Lakes Opera (FLO) commissioned B.E. Boykin and Jarrod Lee to create the company’s first opera in 2022. Over the past two years, this one-act opera has had two weeklong workshops; one in Rochester during FLO’s 2023 Summer Festival and the second in Cincinnati when the company was invited to participate in The Cincinnati Opera’s Opera Fusion: New Works initiative.
This free Behind the Curtain event, sponsored by the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music, will give audience members the opportunity to learn how this new work has come to life.
Moderator Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, Eastman School of Music’s Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion, will lead a discussion on the Two Corners creative process and the themes explored therein.
Panelists include Composer B.E. Boykin, Librettist Jarrod Lee, Soprano Kearstin Piper Brown, and FLO Artistic Director, Conductor, and Founder Gerard Floriano.
Dessert reception to follow at Cominsky Promenade. – Finger Lakes Opera
Link to register for free ticket to Behind the Curtain: Two Corners Panel Discussion
Link to tickets for June 28th / 7pm Premiere Performance of Two Corners

Link to tickets for June 30th / 2pm Performance of Two Corners

Baltimore Musicales: Our Favorite Things
2024-05-19 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Woodbrook Baptist Church, 25 Stevenson Lane, Towson, MD, 21212, United States
Join us for our 10th birthday celebration and a Greatest Hits program of musical theater tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, and Kurt Weill; art songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, Libby Larsen, Jean Sibelius, and more, plus favorite operatic moments from Verdi’s La traviata and Bizet’s Carmen. Featured artists include Thea Tullman Moore, Annie Gill, Claire Galloway, Min Jin, Michael Manganiello, Jason Widney, Ellie Yeonjung Kim, Jarrod Lee, Ka Nyoung Yoo, and Patricia McKewen Amato. Come dressed in festive attire from your favorite decade and enjoy an afternoon of music, poetry, raffles, sing-alongs, Musicales trivia, and more! – Baltimore Musicales

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Two Corners: workshop
2023-07-23 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Theater at Innovation Square, 131 Chestnut St, Rochester, NY, 14604
Two Corners
Composer: B.E. Boykin
Librettist: Jarrod Lee
Commissioned by Finger Lakes Opera
Premiere: Summer 2024
Link to Two Corners‘ Workshop with Finger Lakes Opera in July 2023
Don’t miss your first glimpse at a brand new opera.
After premiering B.E. Boykin’s song cycle Moments In Sonder, FLO commissioned the up-and-coming composer to write her first opera: Two Corners. Kearstin Piper Brown, a Rochester-based artist quickly gaining national attention for her work in traditional and contemporary opera, will sing the lead role of Florine with 2023 young artists rounding out the workshop cast.
Two Corners, composed by B.E. Boykin with libretto by Jarrod Lee, explores the evolving friendship of a Black woman, Florine, and a white woman, Sarah, during the unrest of the Civil Rights movement. Told through a series of flashbacks, Florine and Sarah reflect on their different perspectives of race, friendship, and the status quo. – Finger Lakes Opera

American Opera Initiative (AOI) 20min Operas / Jan. 21
2023-01-21 19:00 - 21:45 (America/Chicago) | Terrace Theater / Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F. Street NW, Washington D.C., 20566, United States
AOI / 20min opera / OSHUN
Composer: B. E. Boykin
Librettist: Jarrod Lee

Commissioned by the Washington National Opera for the 2022-2023
American Opera Initiative (AOI)

WNO’s acclaimed commissioning program for contemporary American opera enters its tenth exciting season.
This season, three talented composer-librettist teams—B.E. Boykin and Jarrod Lee, Jens Ibsen and Cecelia Raker, and Silen Wellington and Walken Schweigert—showcase their three new one-act operas.
American Opera Initiative (AOI) mentorship is led by newly appointed AOI Artistic Advisor and librettist Kelley Rourke, librettist and filmmaker Kimberly Reed, composer Carlos Simon, and WNO Principal Conductor Evan Rogister, who will lead a chamber orchestra of WNO Orchestra members. The concert staging will be directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.
– Kennedy Center

Requiem / Nov. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20
2022-11-04 19:00 - 2022-11-20 21:00 (America/New_York) | MD
Bass / Ensemble in Requiem produced by In Series….more information coming soon.

Spirit Moves / Sept. 22nd & 23rd
2022-09-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | James E. Bunn Amphitheater, 1200 Mississippi Ave, Washington D.C., 20032, United States
Spirit Moves examines the power of story and storytelling in guiding our lives and counseling us through life’s challenges. Spirit Moves brings stories to life through spoken word, song, and dance. We all have stories that are special to us, stories that we share, stories that we hold dear, that made us who we are today. In this story, Gladys wants to leave her family something to remember and keep with them through life’s trials. Before she dies, she teaches her grandchild a valuable lesson in hopes that lesson will reveal itself to her son. Spirit Moves is a community opera. Made with and partnering with a local community. – In Series
Composer: Dr. Timothy Amukele
Librettist: Jarrod Lee
Choreographer/Movement Director: Shawna Williams
Music Director: Dr. Elizabeth Hill
Cast: Gladys/Jihanna Davis (mezzo), Freddie/Dustin Praylow (dancer), Jerry/Daniel Smith (baritone), Lisa/Shawna Williams (dancer), Baby Girl/Darryl Lillian Johnson (actor/singer/dancer)
Commissioned by In Series in partnership with Friends of Oxon Run and DC Department of Parks and Recreation
In Series / Associate Artistic Producer: Corinne Hayes

Undertaker in Porgy and Bess with Atlanta Opera
2020-03-07 20:00 - 2020-03-15 15:00 (America/New_York) | Atlanta Opera, 1575 Northside Drive, N.W., Atlanta, GA, 30318, United States
“From the extraordinary writing duo of George and Ira Gershwin comes a Depression-era masterpiece rich in timeless tunes, including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” and “Bess, You Is My Woman Now.” Considered the great American opera, Porgy and Bess was inspired by Charleston’s Cabbage Row, a 1920s community bound by faith, tears, music, and laughter. In a tender love story, Porgy and Bess seek harmony in the face of addiction and social injustice.
Scenery produced by The Glimmerglass Festival; Costumes by The Glimmerglass Festival and Washington National Opera
Performed in English with English supertitles” – Atlanta Opera
March 7th / 8:00pm Sat.
March 8th / 6:30pm Sun.
March 10th / 7:30pm Tues.
March 13th / 8:00pm Fri.
March 15th / 3:00pm Sun.
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Figaro meets Fredrick Douglass
2020-02-09 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Millennium Stage, 2700 F St., NW, Washington, DC, 20566, United States
“…In this moving ‘fictional’ musical narrative produced by the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) and featuring Jarrod Lee, baritone; Wayne Jennings, tenor; Neal Burks, narrator (voice of Douglass); JoNay Aiken, dancer, and Dr. Lester Green, pianist; journey with the Statesman, ‘Frederick Douglass,’ as he discovers and finds himself. FREE”
– Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts

Ensemble in Porgy and Bess Ensemble at the Met (multiple dates below)
2020-01-08 19:30 - 2020-02-01 22:30 (America/Chicago) | Metropolitan Opera, 30 Lincoln City Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
I’ll be one of the featured soloists in the fabulous ensemble of artists in “…one of America’s favorite operas returns to the Met for the first time in nearly 30 years. James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront, vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. “If you’re going to stage Gershwin’s opera, this is how,” raved the Guardian when the new production premiered in London in 2018. David Robertson conducts a dynamic cast, featuring the sympathetic duo of Eric Owens and Angel Blue in the title roles and an all-star ensemble that includes Golda Schultz, Latonia Moore, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine, Alfred Walker, and Ryan Speedo Green.” – The Metropolitan Opera
January 8th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 24th, 28th
February 1st (also HD broadcast day in some movie theaters)
