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.

The Sembrich’s Free Film Festival continues with an outdoor screening the 2019 documentary film Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles on Monday, August 16 at 7:30 PM. The film is the first documentary to chronicle the complete story of the international Broadway blockbuster musical Fiddler on the Roof by exploring the unexpected richness of its themes as well as its extensive reach across time and cultures. Fiddler on the Roof is the tale of Jewish immigrants coming to America, of immigrants and refugees trying to escape persecution in their homeland, of the fraying of tradition, generational tension, and the loss of roots.

The Sembrich will host the lively lakeside program Call of the Wild: Horns of The Philadelphia Orchestra on Sunday, August 15 at 6:00 PM. Jennifer Montone and Jeffrey Lang, Principal and Associate Principal horn players with The Philadelphia Orchestra, will present an outdoor concert featuring a cornucopia of musical delights. From traditional hunting calls to masterful concerti, the program will celebrate the horn in all its majesty and glory. Repertoire highlights include works of Mozart, Kalliwoda, and Haydn. Additionally, Philadelphia Orchestra violinist and Sembrich Board Member Philip Kates will join the ensemble in a performance of his own composition, Legende, written in the 1980s for legendary horn player Mason Jones.

Due to strong demand, The Sembrich has added an additional showing of Under The Greenwood Tree: Shakespeare in Nature, an immersive outdoor performance by the Adirondack Shakespeare Company, at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, August 25. Visitors will explore The Sembrich’s lakeside grounds while enjoying scenes prepared by the actors of the Adirondack Shakespeare Company in this unique outdoor experience. Specially curated for The Sembrich’s landscapes and waterscapes, these musical and dramatic selections from the plays of William Shakespeare speak to the beauty and magic of the natural world.