Bass-baritone and composer Johan Hartman, along with award-winning Edinburgh-based collaborative pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead, will present a selection of songs, arias, and original compositions in recital at Opera America’s Mark A. Scorca Hall.

This exciting new duo made their debut at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in two performances which received a glowing critical (Excellent Show) as well as a rapturous audience reception. The Fringe Review wrote: “Hartman is an exciting new voice on the opera scene, both as a dramatic performer and as a composer”.

Works to be performed include several selections from Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, opera arias by Mozart and Rossini as well as others and the New York debut of Mr. Hartman’s own song cycles, Blood and the Moon (WB Yeats) and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (R Browning).