Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Arias in the Area

With both the Green Mountain Opera Festival and the Opera Company of Middlebury in full swing, there’s no doubt about it: Opera season in the Green Mountain State has arrived. And so has opera soprano Jennifer Black (pictured). She’s a Texas native, but comes to Shelburne with concert harpist Grace Cloutier for an evening of soaring works by Britten and Fauré. Black, who finished the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 2008, has gone on to sing in numerous big-stage roles, such as the New York City Opera’s Carmen and the Santa Fe Opera’s La Bohème. Cloutier is similarly renowned, heralded by the New York Concert Review for her “dreamy, poetic and colorful” technique. The two paired up at Carnegie Hall in 2008, so don’t miss this local encore.