Photograph by Gayle Shay
Past Performances-please visit the Home page by clicking “Jennifer Quammen McGuire” for an updated schedule. Thank you!
Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena
November 17, 6:30 PM, W. O. Smith School
This children’s opera brings the Mexican legend of the poinsettia to life. Words and music by Joshua McGuire and Evan Mack, Spanish translation by Blaz Canedo-González.
The Magic Flute (Conductor)
September 30, 2:00 PM, Richland Place
October 1, 3:00 PM, Richland Place
Come and enjoy a one-act, English-language version of W. A. Mozart’s beloved final opera. Stage direction by Gayle Shay.
Painting to the left depicting the Queen of the Night’s arrival is from an 1815 production by Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
A Fête to Remember (pianist)
July 15th, 2023, 5:30 PM
Bishop’s Lodge Auberge Resort, Santa Fe, NM
Mezzo-soprano Kate Tombaugh, accordionist Hanzhi Wang and pianist Jennifer Quammen McGuire open the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival with an evening of music by the famed chanteuse Edith Piaf. Tickets for this event also include access to an all-Chopin concert by pianist Garrick Ohlsson on July 14. Click here for more information.
(Photo to the left of Kate and Jennifer by Robyn Pizzo)
Here be Sirens (Music Director)
April 1, 2023, 7:30 PM
April 2, 2023, 7:30 PM
Music and book by Kate Soper, with additional texts by Plato, Theobaldus of Cambridge, Homer, Erasmus, Rimbaud de Vacqueiras, Tibullus, Edna St. Vincent-Millay, Thomas Campion, Michael Drayton, Iamblichus, Dante, John Milton and Sappho (translated by Anne Carson).
This work, premiered in 2014 by Morningside Opera and Dixon Place, features three sopranos as the sirens Peitho, Polyxo and Phaino, who both sing and play a prepared piano.
Staggerwing (Conductor)
A new opera by Lisa DeSpain and Rachel J. Peters that chronicles the journeys of pilots Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden to and through the 1936 Bendix Trophy Air Race. Based on a true story.
Staggerwing is the inaugural production of the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre Lab, which is devoted to workshopping and performing new works.
VOT Lab will present a performance of this work-in-progress in the Instrumental Rehearsal Hall at the Blair School of Music on February 17, 2023, at 6 PM.
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Conductor)
W.O. Smith School
December 2, 2022, 7:00 PM
December 3, 2022, 7:00 PM
The Vanderbilt Opera Theatre brings this beloved Christmas opera by Giancarlo Menotti into the Nashville community. Suitable for all, 45 minutes long.
Cendrillon (Conductor)
Vanderbilt University, Blair School of Music
Ingram Hall
Thursday, October 6, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 8, 7:30 PM
A light-hearted and romantic version of the Cinderella story composed by Pauline Viardot. Suitable for all-ages, this 70-minute opera is sung in French with dialogue in English.
Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers (Conductor/Pianist)
March 20, 2022
9:45 AM and 11 AM
A children’s opera by Kamala Sankaram that brings together stories from India, China and West Africa.
Semele (Conductor)
Friday, February 4, 2022, 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022, 7:30 PM
Enjoy an 80-minute version of Handel’s Semele, with string quartet and harpsichord. Tickets are free and required.
Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena (Conductor/Pianist)
Casa Azafran
Thursday, November 18, 2022, 6:30 PM
Friday, November 19, 2022, 6:30 PM
Cosi fan Tutte (Conductor/Continuo)
Vanderbilt University, Ingram Hall
October 7 and 9, 2021, 7:30 PM
Covers Concert Performance, October 8, 7:30 PM
Albert Herring (Conductor)
After offering online-only concerts in the fall and spring of 2020-21, the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre is offering an outdoor, in-person performance of Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring.
This free event is on Wilson Lawn at Vanderbilt University, April 16, 2021, 7:30 PM.
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Virtual Production
December 2020
Gayle Shay, Director and Sound Designer
Jennifer Quammen McGuire, Music Director and Sound Designer
Don Pasquale (Conductor)
Boston Conservatory Opera presents Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, conducted by Jennifer Quammen McGuire. Performances February 6-9, 2020.
Mansfield Park & The Ghosts of Gatsby (Conductor)
Vanderbilt Opera Theatre presents The Ghosts of Gatsby by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire & Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove and Alistair Middleton, both conducted by Jennifer Quammen McGuire. Performances at Vanderbilt University, Ingram Hall. The Ghosts of Gatsby runs October 17 and 19, 2019; Mansfield Park runs October 18 and 20, 2019.
Le nozze di Figaro (Conductor)
Seagle Music Colony presents Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. Performances at the Oscar Seagle Memorial Theatre will run July 17-20, 2019.
Opera Scenes (Conductor)
Jennifer Quammen McGuire conducts scene from operas by Mozart, Verdi, Dove, Adamo, Glück, Cimarosa, and Humperdinck at the Boston Conservatory Summer Opera Intensive in Valencia, Spain. Program runs from June 2-22, 2019.
The Atlantic Ensemble concert
Jennifer Quammen McGuire performs works by Mozart, Saint-Säens, Bolcom and Sibelius with The Atlantic Ensemble at the Église de St.-Merry and The American Church, Paris, France. Performances on May 4-5, 2019.
The Atlantic Ensemble concert
Jennifer Quammen McGuire performs works by Mozart, Saint-Säens, Bolcom and Sibelius with The Atlantic Ensemble at the TENRI Cultural Center, New York City. Performance on March 31, 2019.
Tosca (Assistant Conductor)
Opera Birmingham presents Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa. Performances at Samford University Wright Center on March 15 and 17, 2019.
Around the World: Vocal Chamber Music
Jennifer Quammen McGuire performs chamber recitals with Jeffrey William, baritone; Meghan Berindean, cellist; and Razvan Berindean, violist. Featuring works of Arensky, Brahms, Bridge, Glinka, Loeffler, Jacobs-Bond, Marx and Mercadante. Performances at Second Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN (January 29, 2019); Austin Peay State University, Mabry Concert Hall, Clarksville, TN (January 31, 2019); and Murray State University, Murray, KY (February 2, 2019).
The Ghosts of Gatsby (Music Director/Pianist)
Opera America in conjunction with Opera Birmingham presents The Ghosts of Gatsby by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire.