Events

Husband and Wife Duo, Forrópera, share their genre bending musical ingenuity and joy with surrounding communities.

Kaufman Music Center brought live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with 107 performances featuring 202 of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists from the Merkin Hall stage. More than 30K passers-by enjoyed the performances. Presented in partnership […]

Welcome to Forrópera, the wonderful world of husband/wife duo Chrystal E. Williams (mezzo- soprano) and Felipe Hostins (accordionist), where opera, Broadway, and Brazilian folk music exuberantly collide, bringing you a musical experience like no other—all with the couple’s genre-bending style to “foster unity, understanding, and peace through music”. Join us for an exciting musical tour […]

Esperanza Arts Center presents a special live-streamed staged world premiere in partnership with Astral Artists featuring Brazilian forró music, opera, dance, and storytelling traditions, as part of Voces 2021. Building on the sound of Forrópera, co-created by Chrystal E. Williams (mezzo- soprano) and Felipe Hostins (accordion), Forrópera Experiência combines Brazilian Forró music, Opera, Dance, and […]

The Chrystal E. Williams Scholarship was founded in 2004 because it was realized that there was a need to help students wishing to pursue a career in the performing arts. It is my hope and dream that in the future young performers will not have to concern themselves with funding for school but will only […]