Join us for our performance on Friday evening, October 11, as part of the fourth biennial Seattle Sings Choral Festival, organized by the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium. Opus 7 is one of the featured choirs honoring Northwest composer Morten Lauridsen …
Founded in 1992, Opus 7 is a professional resident vocal ensemble at St. James Cathedral that focuses on music from Northwest composers. Click to view this short video:
This resplendent vocal ensemble performs two major works by Northwest composers, Seven Last Words by Bern Herbolsheimer, and the world premiere of Stabat Mater, by Opus 7 composer-in-residence John Muehleisen. Also on the program is choral music by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dupré, and Grechaninov. …
Opus 7 has been celebrating its 10th year of business all season, which concluded this weekend with a pair of concerts. And rightly so. Along with a handful of other vocal ensembles, Opus 7 is one of the reasons some might …
The ensemble-in-residence for the imposingly towered St. James Cathedral offers a fine reminder that whatever excesses Christians of all stripes have committed in the name of God, they’ve also made possible some lovely music.
What Seattle’s early music community also has, and has always had, is a collaborative attitude in which everyone helps each other. Today, singers such as tenor David Stutz, soprano Lisa Cardwell Pontén, baritone Vernon Nicodemus, and many others can be …
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