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Opera Company of Philadelphia surprises Macy’s Shoppers with 650 Singers Pop-Up-Hallelujah

Shoppers Crowd Macy’s, like Opera Company of Philadelphia pop-up Opera Unfolds

Philadelphia, PA (Vocus) 5 November 2010

On Saturday 30 October 2010, joined the Opera Company of Philadelphia from National Opera week by a partnership with Macy’s and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight Foundation to produce one of the “Random Acts of Culture” in a big way in Philadelphia.

The Opera Company of Philadelphia choir as a core, more than 650 singers from choirs area, accompanied by the famous Wanamaker organ – the world’s largest organ – Shopper surprised at the downtown Philadelphia Macy’s from the spontaneous reproduction of the Hallelujah Chorus Handel’s Messiah.

Click here to view this YouTube video! http://bit.ly/9UV5Pc.

contribution builds on the success of the Opera Company April 2010 performance of a pop-up Brindisi chorus of 35 singers from La Traviata at the Reading Terminal Market presented and which has received almost 3 million hits worldwide on YouTube since its posting.

Opera Company is deeply grateful for the generous funding of the Knight Foundation Hallelujah performance as one of the 1,000 “Random Acts of Culture” that they make possible in the next three years. The “Random Acts of Culture” program consists artist brings out the performance halls and in the streets as a reminder of how the classical arts enrich life.

Opera Company promotes the personal practice of singing in the fun and the web means, and is honored to perform with the revered Wanamaker organ. Macy’s is to protect this valuable and historic instrument as one of the many investments in the local – which made possible their – as their annual fireworks display their famous Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Macy’s Christmas Light Show and Dickens Village in Center City Philadelphia support.

“Random Act of Culture” is given to the introduction of the National Opera week by Opera America and the National Endowment for the Arts as a way of exciting opera activity in the United States celebrate together every year by offering Internet Fun, free activities to promote opera appreciation.

our most sincere thanks to all the people who joined us in song and in the spirit of 30 October!

For more on Random Acts of Culture and access many other examples of these events, please visit http://www.randomactsofculture.org.

more about Opera Company of Philadelphia 35th Anniversary 2010-2011 season, visit http://www.operaphila.org learn.

In support of the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s, please visit http://www.wanamakerorgan.com.

For more information about National Opera visit http://www.operaamerica.org/now weeks.

April 2010 Brindisi performance is on YouTube to OperaPhila:

http://www.youtube.com/user/operaphila # p/u/0/_zmwRitYO3w

For further information please contact:

Tracy Galligher

Opera Company of Philadelphia Communications

215-893-5903

galligher (at) operaphila (dot) org

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