The Richard Tucker Music Foundation will present the gala concert “Opera Across the Atlantic” on 28 May at the Manoel Theatre.

The line up features Neil Shicoff, Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armilato, Maureen O’Flynn, Angela Marambio, Kate Aldrich, Quinn Kelsey and Patrick Carfizzi under the baton of Eugene Kohn.

The concert, a benefit for Community Chest Fund of Malta (under the patronage of President Fenech-Adami) represents the third time the Tucker Music Foundation has held events abroad; the previous two events were in Florence and London.

“Opera Across the Atlantic” is the brainchild of Michael Sonnenreich, a Tucker Foundation board member and former president of the Washington National Opera, and his friend John Lowell, Malta’s former ambassador to the United States.

The concert will be simulcast live to George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

Dedicated to maintaining the legacy of the great American tenor through grants and awards to promising American opera singers, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has given away more than $2 million in the past 32 years to further the careers of young American singers. Last month the Foundation presented its annual Richard Tucker Award, worth $30,000. to 36-year-old tenor Brandon Jovanovich.