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A
native of Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Everett McCorvey received a Doctorate
of Music Arts from the University of Alabama. He has performed in theaters
around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Kennedy Center,
Aspen Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Whitewater Opera Company,
RadioCity Music Hall, Birmingham Opera Theater, The Teatro Comunale in
Florence, Italy, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, and performances
in Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. He has peformed with
the Bohuslava Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra as tenor soloist on a CD
recording conducted by Maestro Julius Williams featuring the symphonic
works of African-American Composers and under the baton of Maestro Kirk
Trevor. He has also appeared in television movies and feature films including
The Long Walk Home.
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Mr. McCorvey's operatic roles include Don Jose in Carmen, Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovani, Fenton in Falstaff, Eisenstein in Die Fledermsaus, Puck in La Grande Duchess De Gerolstein, and many others. Orchestral and Ortorio works include the Beethoven Symphony number 9, Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Mozart Requiem, the Verdi Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor and the St. Mathew Passion. As a recitalist, Mr. McCorvey has given concerts, masterclasses and workshops throughout the United States and Europe, both solo and with his wife, soprano Alicia Helm. Mr. McCorvey is the Founder and Music Director of the American Spiritual Ensemble, a group of professional singers performing spirituals and other compositions of African-American composers. |
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The
American Spiritual Ensemble is composed of some of the finest singers
in the United States. It's members have sung at theatres and opera houses
around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera,
Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Boston Opera, Atlanta Civic
Opera, and abroad in Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, Spain and Japan.
The repertoire ranges from opera to spirituals on Broadway. The concert
programs presented by The American Spiritual Ensemble consist of performing
Spirituals of the past and present in both the choral and solo settings
in the style of the great Fisk Jubilee Singers. The American Spiritual
Ensemble also presents programs of Spirituals highlighting the Black experience
with a combination of spirituals, opera and Broadway.
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One
of literature's oldest archetypes, the character of Don Juan first appears
in a morality play created to warn man of the dangers of unchecked sensuality.
Although he shares the same fate, Mozart's Don Giovanni is much less easy
to define. By turns heroic, seductive, condescending, and even comic,
the Don is an enigma, able to seduce not only his operatic counterparts,
but the audience as well.
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Even
the music Mozart composed for him has no permanent imprimatur, instead
changing from scene to scene to mimic the rhythm and musical style of
his intended prey. As envisioned by Mozart, he is a character that both
fascinates and repels, leaving most modern audiences unsure whether to
love or hate him.
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"One of my goals is to make sure that the productions we produce here are almost on a profesisonal regional opera company level, so that when the students get into a regional opera company, a professional experience, they will have already been there." - Everett McCorvey |
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Impresario airs on Kentucky Educational Television |
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Impresario showcases the talents of Dr. Everett McCorvey, Kentucky's famous opera showman. From the conquest of Mozart's masterwork Don Giovanni, to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Everett brings the glorious sound of the operatic voice and the Negro Spiritual to the world.
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