The Sembrich continues its 2022 summer festival with “Reimagining The Classics: Breaking Operatic Traditions” a studio talk and performance, on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 2:00 PM. The afternoon will feature Michael Capasso, American Opera impresario and General Director of New York City Opera, sharing his insights on favorite works by Verdi and Puccini and exploring a variety of productions and performance practices from the past 150 years. The talk will be illuminated by several popular arias from the repertoire performed by soprano Kristin Sampson with pianist Michael Clement.

With participation sponsored by The Sembrich, soprano Yihan Duan will compete in the 2022 Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw, Poland.

With participation sponsored by The Sembrich, tenor Richard Trey Smagur will compete in the 2022 Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw, Poland. Richard Trey Smagur, of Clarkesville, Georgia, has been noted for his "attractive lyric tenor" and "vivid presence" (Opera Today) and was named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2017.

The Sembrich has announced its 2022 Summer Festival Reimagining the Classics. The festival will explore reinvention - from transcriptions and arrangements of beloved classics, to rhapsodies and variations on themes of popular composers. Some events will return to the intimacy of the historic Sembrich Studio and others will be held under a lakeside performance tent. Events will begin in June and run through early September. Tickets are now on sale for all events in the 2022 summer festival.

This #GivingTuesday, we are raising funds for the restoration of 11 historic light fixtures that are original to Marcella Sembrich’s lakeside teaching studio. The fixtures are just about a century old and need to be rewired and restored to working condition. The fixtures include the two tall fixtures picture above on the mantle, the chandeliers, and the wall fixtures.

With tremendous sorrow, we mourn the passing of Charles “Charlie” O. Richards, Board Member Emeritus and long-time Sembrich Historian.

The Sembrich will celebrate world music traditions in A Journey Around the Globe, an afternoon performance featuring fiddler Mari Black and accordionist Cory Pesaturo on Wednesday, August 18 at 2:00 PM. The afternoon promises an unforgettable musical extravaganza, as the duo presents a diverse musical journey, featuring rhythmic jazz tunes, blazing klezmer horas, passionate tangos, playful American rags, driving Celtic reels, and more. Known throughout the country and around the world for their individual musical versatility and vivaciousness, Mari Black and Cory Pesaturo hold over 10 World and National championship titles between them.