Excerpts From 'The Shining' Opera Among Offerings at Vocal Music Festival — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

The New York Festival of Song is reconfiguring its important NYFOS Next series this year, presenting it as a compact festival of contemporary vocal music rather than a series with concerts spread throughout the season. This year’s installment will run Feb. 3 to 17 at Opera America’s National Opera Center. The festival’s opening concert will include songs from musicals in progress by Adam Guettel and George Steel – the general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera in its last days – as well as recent works by Gabriel Kahane, Jonathan Dove and Juantio Becenti (Feb. 3).

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