The Ithaca College Opera Workshop will present a free evening of scenes involving characters who appear in various operas on Tuesday, November 17 at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  Brian DeMaris will direct the evening.  He noted:  “We'll be presenting scenes from operas based on Beaumarchais' "Figaro" trilogy (“Barber of Seville,” “Marriage of Figaro,”  “La Mere Coupable”),  and including scenes from John Corigliano's "Ghosts of Versailles" and Massenet's "Cherubin," all sung in the original languages.  Students will guide the audience through the complete story of Figaro, Susannah, Cherubino, Countess Rosina, and Count Almaviva from the countess’s first music lessons in “Barber of Seville” to the moment they find themselves facing the guillotine of the French Revolution in a cell alongside Marie Antoinette in “Ghosts of Versailles.””

With a program encompassing Haydn Sonatas and Beethoven’s “Appassionata,” Charis Dimaras will give a free piano recital on Monday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College.

Alex Shuhan will give a free French horn recital on Tuesday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall at Ithaca College.  He will be joined by flutist Elizabeth Shuhan and pianist Jennifer Hayghe in a program of music by Dana Wilson, Steven Winteregg, Paul Hindemith and Lowell Liebermann. 

Cellist Elizabeth Simkin will present a free recital on Sunday, November 15 at 4:00 in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.  Jennifer Hayghe will collaborate as pianist.  The program will include Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, "Aerialism" by Sebastian Currier, the "Fantasiestueke" by Robert Schumann, and the Debussy sonata.