Operatic baritone Will Liverman performs this Thursday 3/21

By Molly Windover, March 17, 2024

The Manley and Doriseve Thaler Vocal Concert Series presents

Will Liverman, baritone
Madeline Slettedahl, piano

Thursday, March 21, 2024
8:15 p.m.
Hockett Family Recital Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music

A man in a velvet suit jacket

Called “a voice for this historic moment” (Washington Post), GRAMMY Award winning baritone Will Liverman is the recipient of the 2022 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the co-creator of The Factotum – “mic-drop fabulous good” (Opera News) – which premiered at the Lyric Opera Chicago in 2023.

This season Liverman returns to the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. He was previously seen at the Met opening its 21-22 season in a celebrated “breakout performance” (New York Times) as Charles in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, which won the 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording.

At Ithaca College on Thursday, March 21, Liverman will perform with pianist Madeline Slettedahl, in a concert of works by Florence Price, Francis Poulenc, Libby Larsen, Shawn Okpebholo, and more.

Slettedahl will give a piano masterclass at 4:00 p.m. the same day, and Liverman will hold a Q&A session at 6:00 p.m. Both pre-concert events will also be in Hockett Family Recital Hall.

Concert, masterclass, and Q&A are, as always, FREE and open to the public.

Will Liverman appears courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera.

Click here for more information about the Thaler Vocal Concert Series, the artist bios, and the full concert program

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