Dellaira: Arctic Explorations

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 28, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Michael Dellaira
    • PERFORMER
      Nuka Alice, Nicole Haslett, Michael Celentano, Erin Brittain, Colin Levin, New Amsterdam Singers, Th
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 28, 2025
    • UPC
      730099905473
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8669054
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude, "Sullualuk" (The Northwest Passage): Qaagit, Ujartigut (Chorus, Siarnaq)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Nuka Alice

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    2. Scene 1, "Maggie Fox and the spirit circle": Margaret Fox Kane (that's me, though I was mostly known as Maggie) (Maggie, Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Nicole Haslett

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    3. Scene 2, "Lady Jane": Message from the President of the United States (Chorus, President, Lady Jane)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Michael Celentano, Erin Brittain

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    4. Scene 3, "The Expedition": In the month of December, 1852 (Kane, Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    5. Scene 4, "Love Letters - Interlude 1": My dearest Maggie (Kane, Chorus, Maggie)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin, Nicole Haslett

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    6. Scene 5, "In the Ice": Bay ice, drift-ice, field-ice, floe (Chorus, Kane)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    7. Scene 6, "Love Letters - Interlude 2": My dearest Maggie (Kane, Maggie)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin, Nicole Haslett

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    8. Scene 7, "Siarnaq": In Christ there is no East or West (Chorus, Siarnaq, Kane)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Nuka Alice, Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    9. Scene 8, "Natural Laws": I am convinced (Kane, Maggie, Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin, Nicole Haslett

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    10. Scene 9, "Christmas": December 25, Christmas, Monday (Kane, Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    11. Scene 10, "Sir John: Died in Her Majesty's service": In Christ there is no East or West (Chorus, Reporter, Lady Jane, Siarnaq, Kane)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Robert Pietrzak, Erin Brittain, Nuka Alice, Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    12. Scene 11, "The Escape": The summer was wearing on (Kane, Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    13. Scene 12, "New York": October 12th, 1855 (Chorus, Siarnaq)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Nuka Alice

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    14. Scene 13, "Spirit World": He died still a young man (Chorus, Maggie, Lady Jane, Siarnaq, Kane)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Performer: Nicole Haslett, Erin Brittain, Nuka Alice, Colin Levin

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth

    15. Postlude, "Sullualuk": We are the spirit of the Northwest Passage (Chorus)

      Composer: Michael Dellaira

      Ensemble: New Amsterdam Singers, The Harlem Chamber Players

      Conductor: Clara Longstreth


Michael Dellaira has become one of America's leading opera composers, receiving acclaim and awards for compelling stage works including The Leopard (Naxos 8.669052-53). Based on Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century, Arctic Explorations is a study on the human desire to discover what lies beyond the boundaries of our experience. The effects of global warming and the plight of the Inuit in one of the most beautiful but endangered places on earth also forms part of the narrative.