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Benjamin Sosland

Benjamin Sosland (MM ’03, DMA ’08, voice) is the assistant dean for the Kovner Fellowships, administrative director of Juilliard Historical Performance, and a member of the college faculty.

Articles by Benjamin Sosland

The Omnipresence of the Sea

An opera double bill where the sea, and family tragedy, are primary themes.

Emotional Depth in 17th-Century Opera

Using a libretto by Nahum Tate, itself based in part on Virgil’s Aeneid, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is a masterpiece of sophisticated musical concision ...

New York Festival of Song Unveils a Musical Travelogue

The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), now in its 23rd season, is well known among concertgoers for its uniquely ecumenical approach to recital programming. ...

Facing the Guillotine, Poulenc’s Nuns Explore the Nature of Faith

Dialogues des Carmélites contains no scintillating love stories, cases of mistaken identities, or high-flying arias. Yet Poulenc’s opera, which centers on the martyrdom of 16 ...

NYFOS Celebrates American Composers

Featuring singers from the School for the fifth time, the New York Festival of Song (Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, co-artistic directors, pictured) hits the ...

Renée Fleming: A Class Act

Soprano Renée Fleming, who graduated from Juilliard in 1987, held court at a master class in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on October 20. Fleming ...

Introducing Juilliard Baroque

Among the many activities planned during the inaugural year of Juilliard’s newest graduate degree program, Juilliard Historical Performance, the debut of a faculty ensemble will ...

Christie Residency Culminates in Workshop on Handel

As the Historical Performance program gets set to debut in the fall, Juilliard gets a taste of what’s in store, when William Christie (photo) and ...

A Life Devoted to the Arts

In a robust and wide-ranging career, Ara Guzelimian has worn many hats: concert producer, writer and critic, lecturer, impresario, and artistic administrator for prestigious organizations ...

The Dating Game, in Song

Song series looks at dating in all of its guises in a program titled “A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up.”

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Current Issue: May-August 2017