Soprano Yunah Lee will sing with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra on March 10

NEWBURGH — Prize-winning soprano Yunah Lee will join Woomyung Choe and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, March 10, for an afternoon of music by Mozart and Schubert.

Lee has thrilled audiences and garnered rave reviews in the U.S., Europe and Asia in leading operatic roles and as a concert singer. Recent performances in the title role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly were met with high praise. Other roles have included Mimi in La Bohème and Micaëla in Carmen at the New York City Opera.

Her concert repertoire is vast and a few of her many appearances have been with the Pablo Picasso Orchestra in Malaga, the Beijing National Symphony and the New York Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall.

‘Two Young Men’ The orchestra’s program for the afternoon is entitled “Two Young Men: Mozart and Schubert,” two prolific composers who died young. The selections by Mozart are among his most beautiful and melodic compositions, and Schubert’s majestic Symphony No. 9 in C Major,” The Great,” is much like a satisfying epic romance novel.

The concert begins with Idomeneo Overture, K. 366 from the opera based on Homer’s tale of King Idomeneo of Crete, shipwrecked on his journey home from the Trojan Wars.

The second piece will be Mozart’s solo motet Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165, written when he was just 17. This work was not for a female singer, but for the famous Roman castrato, Venanzio Rauzzini. In modern times, the motet is usually sung by a soprano. The finale, the brilliant “Alleluja,” is a favorite of sopranos, concertgoers and worshipers the world over.

Another prolific composer who succumbed to an early death was Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era, he is one of the most frequently performed composers. He died, never having heard his masterpiece, Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 94, “The Great,” performed.

Essential information The performance takes place Saturday, March 10, at 3 p.m., in the Newburgh Free Academy High School Auditorium, 201 Fullerton Ave. in Newburgh.

The Shacklett Preview at 2 p.m. is a pre-concert introduction to the music by Gordon Shacklett.

Ticket are $25 for reserved seating, $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors, $10 for students and children under seven are admitted free of charge.

Tickets may be purchased at the door or reserved. Call 845-913-7157 or www.newburghsymphony.org.