In this first installment of Young Opera for SundayArts, meet Neera Islam a Bangladeshi singer and learn about her experience growing up in the performaning arts. See her perform “Dove sei, amato bene!” from Handel’s RODELINDA.
[…] The high school students in the LaGuardia chorus who sang in this Dido and Aeneas, says choir director John Russell, are the role models for the younger kids in the audience. When a performance like this is done for public school children, Russell feels that they’ve succeeded “if there’s one kids that we turn on to this music, whether it’s to downloading something different from iTunes, going to a concert, or trying an instrument.” His students include Neera Islam, the senior who is heard singing “Dove sei, amato bene” from Handel’s Rodelind…. […]
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[…] The high school students in the LaGuardia chorus who sang in this Dido and Aeneas, says choir director John Russell, are the role models for the younger kids in the audience. When a performance like this is done for public school children, Russell feels that they’ve succeeded “if there’s one kids that we turn on to this music, whether it’s to downloading something different from iTunes, going to a concert, or trying an instrument.” His students include Neera Islam, the senior who is heard singing “Dove sei, amato bene” from Handel’s Rodelind…. […]