The Ocean City Pops Presents Our Three Tenors II

OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Pops Orchestra, William Scheible, artistic director, presents Our Three Tenors II on Sunday, Aug. 28 at 8:00 p.m. The concert takes place at the POPS’ historic performance venue, The Music Pier, located at Moorlyn Terrace and the Boardwalk. Hear tenors John Viscardi, Luigi Boccia, and Jonathon Boyd in a variety of favorite arias and songs. Tickets are available for $20 by ordering online at http://ocnj.tix.com or calling the box office at 609-525-9248. Full information an all POPS concerts and events is available at www.oceancitypops.org and please visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/OceanCityPops.
John Viscardi is a third year resident at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. He hails from Manhasset, New York and received both a Masters and Bachelors degree from New York University. While at AVA he has performed roles such as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Fenton in Falstaff.
Tenor Luigi Boccia, a first-year Resident Artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, hails from Serino, Italy. While studying musicology at the University of Pavia, Mr. Boccia began voice lessons with legendary tenor Gianni Raimondi. His academic studies included a year at the Freie Universität in Berlin, which he capped with a complete performance of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin. He graduated cum laude with a Master’s Degree in Musicology and was awarded the Premio Cariplo (National Valedictorian of Musicology). Boccia has garnered numerous awards and recognitions, including Third Prize in the 2008 Giulio Gari Competition, Grant Winner in the 2008 and 2009 Licia Albanese Puccini/Foundation Competitions, First Prize in the 2008 Gerda Lissner International Singing Competition in New York, First Prize in 2011 the Violetta DuPont Competition and 2011 Winner/Finalist of the L. Zachary National Vocal Competition.
Tenor Jonathan Boyd continually performs throughout Europe, North America and South America. Mr. Boyd has appeared in concert with the New York Philharmonic in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion conducted by Maestro Kurt Masur, the Philadelphia Orchestra in a recording of I Pagliacci with Maestro Riccardo Muti, the Choral Arts Society as Tenor Soloist in Haydn’s Creation at the Kennedy Center, at Carnegie Hall in Mozart’s Requiem, the Baltimore Symphony in Handel’s Messiah, as well as with Maestro Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque, and returned for a Bach’s E flat Magnificat and Cantata 110.
Additionally, Mr. Boyd was the tenor soloist for Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, tenor soloist in Finzi’s Dies Natalis and Britten’s Les Illuminations with with I Musici de Montréal, and made his debut with Virginia Symphony in the live television broadcast of Rimsky Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri in the role of Mozart.