Opera Alfresco
“Opera Alfresco,” a concert featuring Eve Queler, a renowned conductor and the emerita artistic director of the Opera Orchestra of New York, will be performed at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton tomorrow evening starting with cocktails at 6. The performance will follow at 7.
Ms. Queler will lead Teresa Castillo, a soprano who has appeared at Carnegie Hall, with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, and with Bel Canto at Caramoor, and Matthew White, a tenor who recently performed in “La Traviata,” “Die Zauberflote,” and “Romeo and Juliet” at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.
The program will include music by Delibes, Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Meyerbeer. Tickets are $100 for the reception and performance, $75 for members, and $300 with the addition of dinner at 8:30. Tickets are available at longhouse.org.
Patrician History
“New Life in Old Houses: Architecture and Desire in East Hampton,” a talk by David Netto, an author and designer, will take place next Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton. The lecture will be followed by lunch.
Mr. Netto is a contributing design editor for Town & Country magazine, his work as a decorator has been published in Vogue, AD, and Elle Decor, among others, and he is the author of a monograph on the interior designer Francois Catroux.
Tickets are $250, $150 for those 40 and under. The program will benefit the collections, exhibitions, and restoration projects of the East Hampton Historical Society.
Global Trio
Jordan Shapiro’s International Express Trio, which plays everything from Brazilian music to Appalachian mountain tunes, will give a free concert at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Classically trained, Mr. Shapiro has been playing various styles of music for more than 20 years. He leads Choban Elektrik, a jazz-fusion Balkan folk project, and Astrograss, a bluegrass band, among others. Tim Kiah, a singer, composer, and bassist, and Phil Kester, a percussionist, round out the trio. The program will include music from the Balkans, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, the Middle East, and Louisiana.
Call for Plays
The Neo-Political Cowgirls, a nonprofit dance theater company dedicated to celebrating the female voice, has issued a call for submissions of new or unproduced plays in three categories: three-to-five-minute one acts with two or more characters, 10-to-30-minute one acts, and full-length plays. The playwrights must be female-identifying writers.
Selected works will be presented in a three-part play-dinner series that will take place in the fall at a private loft in TriBeCa for an invited audience of industry members and the general public. Submissions are by email to both [email protected] and [email protected] with a cover letter and “submission” in the subject line.
Music Times Two
Mitch Frohman and the Bronx Horns will give a free outdoor Latin Jazz concert on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center. The band is made up of Mr. Frohman, who spent 25 years with the Tito Puente Orchestra, on saxophone and flute, Pete Nater on trumpet, Bobby Porcelli on alto saxophone, Frankie Vazquez on vocals, and a rhythm section.
The Bronx Horns have performed at the San Jose Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Festival, J.V.C. Jazz Festival, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, and top clubs such as Birdland and the Blue Note. Chairs and blankets have been recommended, and food and beverages will be available for purchase.
The center is launching a new series, Theater and Opera Mondays, which will offer audiences a view into the process behind creating new musicals or operas before full staging. Monday’s program will feature an original show by Marcy Heisler, a writer and lyricist, and Zina Goldrich, a composer, who have collaborated on musical theater projects since 1993.
They have been nominated for Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Helen Hayes awards and, as performers, have toured domestically and internationally as the Marcy and Zina Show. Tickets to the 7 p.m. program are $20, $15 for members.