Hauser & Wirth and Manuela are delighted to present the ‘Salon Series at Manuela,’ a program combining talks and performances alongside curated culinary experiences. Each salon brings together noted guest speakers, performers, artists, writers, chefs and more to explore topics spanning art, performance and food, all designed to inspire connection and raise funds in support of meaningful causes.
For the second salon in the series, join superstar countertenor and General Director of Opera Philadelphia Anthony Roth Costanzo for an intimate, tailor-made version of his genre-defying collaborative work ‘GLASS / HANDEL’ featuring music by composers Philip Glass and George Frideric Handel, and videos by Jacolby Satterwhite, Tilda Swinton, James Ivory and more, all produced in collaboration with Visionaire and Cath Brittan.
As a countertenor, Costanzo’s repertoire lies at two ends of the spectrum between baroque and contemporary. Instead of becoming a specialist in one or the other, he has established legendary status worldwide by splitting his career evenly between the two. ‘Handel defined me, and Glass changed me,’ he likes to say.
Tickets for the ‘Salon Series at Manuela’ presenting ‘GLASS / HANDEL’ with Anthony Roth Costanzo are $500 each + fees, which includes the performance of your choice as well as a three-course plant-based dinner by Manuela NY.
All proceeds raised will be donated to Opera Philadelphia.
‘GLASS / HANDEL’
Performed by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo
and Metropolitan Opera pianist Bryan Wagorn
Running Time approximately 90 minutes including food & beverage service
6 pm
Dinner & Performance
Doors open at 5.30 pm and the performance will end at ≈ 7.30 pm.
or
9 pm
Dinner & Performance
Doors open at 8.30 pm and the performance will end at ≈ 10.30 pm.
Tickets will be released on a first come, first served basis for each performance. All sales are final.
About Anthony Roth Costanzo
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia and the Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio.
He has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera National de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as the 2023 Artist in Residence), and Finnish National Opera.
In concert, he has sung with the New York Philharmonic (where he was named The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence for the 2021-22 season), The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Boston Baroque, Berlin Philharmonic, NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has been presented in recital in Vancouver, Princeton University Concerts, Duke Performances, and at the Morgan Library in New York. He has performed at a wide-ranging variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Hollywood Bowl, Versailles, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wigmore Hall, National Sawdust, Minamiza Kyoto, Joe’s Pub, The Guggenheim, The Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.
He stars in the Metropolitan Opera’s recording and DVD of Akhnaten which won him a GRAMMY Award, and his solo album ARC was nominated for a GRAMMY, as was his recording of the title role in John Corigliano’s Lord of Cries. Costanzo collaborated with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond on the album Only an Octave Apart and his future projects include a new solo album and a forthcoming book for Farrar Straus and Giroux.
Costanzo is a recipient of the Beverly Sills Award from the Metropolitan Opera and the History Maker Award from New York Historical. He is a winner of the Opera News Award, and the Musical America Vocalist of the Year. His many other awards include first place in Operalia competition, Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a George London Award, a career grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and he was the first countertenor to win First Place in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCullom competition, where he also won the audience choice prize. He also received a Sullivan Foundation Award, and has won First Place in the Opera Index Competition, the National Opera Association Vocal Competition, and the Jensen Foundation Competition.
Costanzo began performing professionally on Broadway and in Broadway National Tours including A Christmas Carol, The Sound of Music, and Falsettos. He began his operatic endeavors playing Miles in The Turn of the Screw and shortly thereafter sang alongside Luciano Pavarotti. In film, he played Francis in the Merchant Ivory film, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, Simon in Brice Cauvin’s De particulier a particulier, and made a cameo appearance in Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me. He is also the first countertenor to host Met Opera Live in HD Broadcasts. As part of Little Island’s performing arts series in New York, he created and starred in a one-man rendition of Le Nozze di Figaro and returned the to star in a revival of Charles Ludlam’s play Galas.
This season, Costanzo returns to the Opéra National de Paris for a solo concert and new production of Phillip Glass’ Satyagraha, to Opera Philadelphia for the premiere of The Seasons. He also makes his debuts at both the Gran Teatro del Liceu and the famed Royal Concertgebouw in Akhenaten, and appears in recital in New York, St. Louis, and Washington DC.
About Bryan Wagorn
Canadian-American pianist Bryan Wagorn regularly performs throughout Europe, North America and Asia with the world’s leading instrumentalists and singers, including Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nadine Sierra, Angel Blue, Joyce DiDonato, and Lise Davidsen.
Bryan has appeared at the invitation of many of the most prominent summer festivals, including Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Marlboro, and the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival in Japan, and has served on the faculties of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada’s Summer Music Institute, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra.
At the Metropolitan Opera, Bryan currently serves as Assistant Conductor. He frequently appears with the Met Chamber Ensemble in concerts at Carnegie Hall, and was the pianist for the Met’s Grammy-winning productions of Porgy and Bess, Fire Shut Up in my Bones and Champion. In 2023, Bryan performed the role of pianist Boleslao Lazinski onstage at the Met in their production of Giordano’s Fedora.
In recital, Bryan has given performances at Carnegie Hall, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro di San Carlo, the Kennedy Center, Staatsoper Hamburg, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and on tour with Jeunesses Musicales. He also sits on the advisory boards of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation and the Bagby Foundation.
