15 October 2025 – Woe is Poe: A Concert Experience (Baltimore)

Explore the flirtations and dashed romances of Edgar Allan Poe through his letters, poems, and song. Featuring Really Spicy Opera and the Empressa Ensemble.
Woe is Poe: A Concert Experience at Carroll Mansion
When: October 15, 2025 at 7 PM
Where: Carroll Mansion (800 E Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21202)
Letter from Frances Sargent Osgood, March 1, 1845

   Katrina Atsinger, reader

 Frances Scott Osgood (1811-1850)
“Poe’s Song” (2024)

    David Evans, tenor         Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Music: Basil Considine (b. 1981)
“To the River” (2025)

    Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Music: Basil Considine (b. 1981)
“Israfel”, from 2 Poems, Op. 8 (1908)

    Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano 

 Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Music: Edgar Stillman Kelley (1857-1944)
“Fathom the Bowl for Poe” (2025)

      David Evans, tenor         Elissa Edwards, soprano

 Lyrics: Basil Considine (b. 1981)

Music: Traditional Sea Shanty
“Like the Gloom of Night Retiring” (c. 1815-1817)

      Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: ?

Music: Henry Rowley Bishop (1787-1856) 
“To Frances S. Osgood” (1845)
     Basil Considine, reader		 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“Valentine to Edgar Allan Poe, Saturday February 14. 1846”

     Katrina Atsinger, reader

 Virginia Clemm Poe
(1822-1847)
“A Dream Within a Dream” from Four Poems: Set to Music for Voice and Piano, op. 15 (1906)

      David Evans, tenor               Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Music: Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) 
“Beloved! Amid the Earnest Woes!” from 5 Poe Songs, Op.41 (1901)

      Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Music: Bertram Shapleigh (1871-1940) 
“Soon May Arthur Gordon Pym Come!” (2025)

      Basil Considine, baritone     Elissa Edwards, soprano

      David Evans, tenor     Junghoon Park, piano

 Lyrics: Basil Considine (b. 1981)

Music: Traditional
New Zealand Sea Shanty 
The Isle of the Fay (2025)

      Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano

      David Evans, tenor

 Libretto & Music: Jodi Goble
(b. 1974)
After Edgar Allan Poe’s last,
unfinished short story.
“Thank God, I Glory in Thy Love!” (1849/1850)

     Katrina Atsinger, reader

 Frances Scott Osgood (1811-1850) 
“Farewell to Poe” (2025)

      Elissa Edwards, soprano     Junghoon Park, piano

      David Evans, tenor

      Basil Considine, baritone

 Lyrics: Basil Considine (b. 1981)

Music: Traditional
British Sea Shanty

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Drama that burns and music that sates.