Ailyn Perez and More Set for Richard Tucker Music Foundation 37th Annual Gala at Avery Fisher Hall, 11/11

Barry Tucker, President of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation and son of the great American tenor for whom it is named, stated:

"We are thrilled to be back on television this year and to be able to share our wonderful concert with viewers throughout America thanks to PBS's 'Live From Lincoln Center.' We've got a great lineup of singers and are delighted to introduce 2012 Richard Tucker Award-winner Ailyn Pérez, a wonderful young soprano who sings with incredible beauty and heart and is sure to light up the show."

The complete list of singers featured on the 37th annual gala program includes Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov, who sings the title roles in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni this season at the Metropolitan Opera; mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, a 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant recipient; Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, who sings Amneris in the Met's upcoming revival of Aida; tenor Stephen Costello, the 2009 Richard Tucker Award-winner and husband of Pérez; Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, in her American debut; Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti, who appears in both La clemenza di Tito and La rondine at the Met this season; Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who sings Count Almaviva opposite Abdrazakov's Figaro later this month; Italian tenor Marcello Giordani, who sings Calàf in the Met's Turandot this fall; Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who stars in the Met's new production of Un ballo in maschera and later in its revival of Don Carlo; baritone Quinn Kelsey, a 2006 Richard Tucker Career Grant recipient and 2004 Sara Tucker Study Grant winner; Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, who sings the title role opposite Borodina in Aida; and Uruguayan bass-baritone Erwin Schrott, who at the Met this season sings Leporello to Abdrazakov's Don Giovanni and Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore opposite his real-life partner, Anna Netrebko.

Further information about the 2012 gala and the work of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation is available at www.richardtucker.org.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation presents:
2012 Richard Tucker GALA
November 11 at 6:30pm
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City

2012 Richard Tucker Award winner Ailyn Pérez, soprano

Winners of Richard Tucker Music Foundation grants and special guests

Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano
Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Costello, tenor
Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Filianoti, tenor
Gerald Finley, baritone
Marcello Giordani, tenor
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Quinn Kelsey, baritone
Liudmyla Monastyrska, soprano
Erwin Schrott, bass-baritone

Patrick Summers, conductor
Members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
New York Choral Society

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