Juventas Opera Project 2012 wins The American Prize for best opera production in the professional category!
THREE reviews of recent Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of Stravinsky's The Nightingale praise the chorus's RUSSIAN DICTION (prepared by Lidiya Yankovskaya)
Juventas presents Opera Project 2012 with support from the Free for All Concert Fund
"vibrant performers and flavorful music..... Indeed, the orchestra’s playing was sometimes so fascinating that it was difficult to keep one’s attention on the actual stage..."
http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2012/05/the-fiddler-and-the-old-woman-of-rumelia-offers-vibrant-music-but-confused-drama/
http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2012/05/the-fiddler-and-the-old-woman-of-rumelia-offers-vibrant-music-but-confused-drama/
Snegurochka sells out all 6 performances!!!
"Run, do not walk to the Harvard ticket office... The music director, Russian-born Lidiya Yankovskaya, conducted a remarkably capable orchestra with authority and sensitivity, and the singers uniformly delivered both excellent diction and acting. Lowell’s production is beyond reproach."
-The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Juventas unMET feature video
Portrait of Lidiya Yankovskaya in The Harvard Crimson
Light and Power wins National Opera Association Award!!!
Juventas New Music Ensemble's world premiere production of Isaac Schankler's opera Light and Power (Lidiya Yankovskaya, Music Director) wins 2nd place in the category of "Production by a Professional Opera Company" in the National Opera Association's annual competition.
Opera Boston's Béatrice et Bénédict review
"The most impressive support, however, came from the chorus [prepared and conducted offstage by Lidiya Yankovskaya], a group of men and women who sang beautifully..."
http://classical-scene.com/2011/10/23/beatrice-et-benedict-in-boston/
http://classical-scene.com/2011/10/23/beatrice-et-benedict-in-boston/
