Artist Lounge with Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor & Zack Winokur, director

Tuesday, August 16 · 1-2 PM

THE ATKINSON ROOM

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is a 2022 GRAMMY® winner, a recipient of the 2020 Beverly Sills Award from the Metropolitan Opera, a winner of the 2020 Opera News Award, and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year, among many others. This season, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera in his acclaimed performance of the title role in Akhnaten, as well as in Rodelinda. He will be the New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence and will make his debut at the Santa Fe Opera in the title role of the world première of John Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries. His second album, a collaboration with Justin Vivian Bond, will be released this winter on Decca Gold.

Stage director, choreographer, and dancer Zack Winokur frequently collaborates on opera productions across the US and Europe. This season he directs Tristan und Isolde, the centerpiece of Santa Fe Opera’s 2022 season, and a new production of Messiaen’s Harawi at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Winokur is Artistic Director of AMOC, a collective of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists he co-founded with composer Matthew Aucoin. The group will serve as Music Director of the Ojai Festival this year. Winokur has collaborated with a diverse group of artists in a wide range of media, including Academy Award-nominated director Mike Figgis, pianist Rosey Chan, fashion house Boudicca, grime artist Pepstar, DJ crew A Tribe Called Red, and artists Gerard & Kelly in venues from David Lynch’s Club Silencio, the Centre Pompidou, the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House, the Royal Opera House, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

SUMMERFEST 2022 PERFORMANCES

SYNERGY: An Evening of Kurt Weill
Thursday, August 18, 2022 · 7:30 PM
THE BAKER-BAUM CONCERT HALL

Audiences will be captivated by a newly conceived, semi-staged celebration of Kurt Weill’s extraordinary body of work. Directed by Zack Winokur, one of the most innovative and exciting talents working today, the program features two of the world’s most in-demand vocalists—countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, who became an international sensation and won a GRAMMY for his portrayal of the pharaoh in Philip Glass’s opera Akhnaten, and GRAMMY® Award-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant—alongside an ensemble of SummerFest musicians creating an incomparable evening you will not want to miss.

Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego

Judith Bachner and Eric Lasley

Brenda Baker and Steve Baum

Raffaella and John Belanich

Gordon Brodfuehrer

Sue and Chris Fan

Catherine Rivier

Clara Wu Tsai