Join Marcello Giordani at UPO Gala

Annual Gala Performance and Reception

Friday, December 7, 2012
6 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'
24 W. 12th Street
New York City

Meet our reception Guest of Honor 

Met Opera Star Marcello Giordani

We are excited to celebrate another year with our friends and supporters!

Hear the Sounds of the Season

A sneak preview of Scarlatti's Il Trionfo dell'Onore, festive Handel duets, 
favorite arias by Mozart, Gounod, Puccini, and more.

Performers include Guests and Resident Artists 

Guests: Isaac Grier, Stephanie McGuire, Alison McConekey
Residents: Danielle Bendjy, Aditi Chakravarty, Elise Jablow, Radoslav Lesay,
 Alicia Williams; Elizabeth Rodgers, piano

Tickets include wine reception with Marcello Giordani

$35 ($10 tax deductible) 

$75 donor ticket ($50 tax deductible) 

$125 supporter ticket ($100 tax deductible)

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Exclusive Live Auction

Bid for Opera online beginning November 7

Bid live at the Gala, where winners will be announced!

www.32auctions.com/bidforopera2012

Escape to beautiful Santorini Greece. Take a backstage tour. 
Go for a night on the town to Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera. 
Discover fine dining and rare wines, personal French lessons, 
photography sessions, and travel advice.

Get bargains and gift ideas as you help UPO! 

Join us for a wonderful evening!

Commedia dell'Arte Workshop

Rescheduled for Friday, November 9. Join us! Discover Commedia masks and new ways to animate your characters with UPO's Commedia dell'Arte Skills Workshop led by Lydia Biondi (read more about Lydia below...) UPO is proud to offer this internationally praised Commedia workshop to New York.  Lydia Biondi, an actor on stage and screen ("Eat Pray Love") as well as a director and choreographer for film and opera, comes to us from Rome. In this workshop she will show you how to: Analyze character through Commedia archetypes Move like a Commedia player Reveal yourself through Mask  Hone your skills in Commedia scenes Rescheduled:  Friday, November 9, 2012 6:30 - 9:00 pm Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo 24 W. 12th Street Guests by special arrangement Email us at underworldprod@gmail.com Free for current UPO Resident Artists "Commedia is the soul of the Italian language."  Lydia Biondi was featured in Miracle at St. Anna (2008) directed by Spike Lee; she can also be seen in Casanova (2005) directed by L. Hallstrom, in Letters to Juliette, directed by G. Winick with Vanessa Redgrave, and in Eat, Pray, Love directed by R. Murphy, with Julia Roberts. She works as a stage director and choreographer and as an assistant director and casting director in film and opera. She also teaches Commedia dell’Arte workshops around the world. Born in Tuscany, Lydia Biondi founded the non-profit MTM (Mimoteatromovimento), a theater school and company that became one of the most important private theater schools in Rome. In 1981, she joined Mummenschanz and toured with them around the world. Since returning to Rome in the 90s she has resumed direction of MTM, working as actress, choreographer, teacher and director.