Bay Atlantic Symphony to Perform Extraordinary Contrasts March 21 Featuring Barbara Dever

The Bay Atlantic Symphony will present "Extraordinary Contrasts" on Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. at the Guaracini Performing Arts Center on the Rowan College of South Jersey - Cumberland campus, 3322 College Drive, Vineland, featuring Met Opera mezzo-soprano Barbara Dever and flamenco dancer Liliana Ruiz under Music Director Jed Gaylin.

The program pairs three clearly divergent scores: Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyl, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (Love the magician). Bay Atlantic’s promotional copy describes Appalachian Spring as “speaks to freshness, simplicity and hope,” calls Falla’s score a “ferociously passionate ballet,” and frames Wagner’s work as “an exquisite poem written for his wife” that “opens up worlds of expression for this program of so many moods and colors.”

Artist billing for the March 21 performance lists Barbara Dever as “Barbara Dever Mezzo Soprano” and identifies Liliana Ruiz as a flamenco dancer, with Jed Gaylin serving as music director and conductor. Hammonton Gazette notes that “Jed Gaylin who was recently honored as one of the Top 30 Performing Arts Professionals in America,” underscoring the profile Gaylin brings to the 2025–2026 season.

The performance is presented as part of Bay Atlantic Symphony’s 2025–2026 season, which also included “Swinging Into a New Year” (Jan. 17 & 18 at the Guaracini center) and lists an upcoming May program, “Exhilarating Rhythms,” on May 2 & 3, 2026. Bay Atlantic’s season page and social posts show “MARCH 21/22” for Extraordinary Contrasts, and Hammonton Gazette lists “March 21 & 22 - Extraordinary •Contrasts: Opera to Flamenco,” but ticketing and the Thundertix event page explicitly schedule Saturday, March 21 at 3:00 p.m.; a start time for March 22 has not been published and should be confirmed with the orchestra or box office.

Tickets are available online or at the door and box office information lists a contact phone number, (609) 449-8873, for purchases and inquiries; Thundertix carries the event with a “Buy tickets” option and Bay Atlantic’s event materials repeat the same ticketing routes. The Hammonton Gazette is running a season ticket giveaway and states, “The Gazette is giving away tickets to each of the Symphony performances this season. Those interested can visit The Gazette Facebook page to enter.”

Vineland audiences will see a program explicitly marketed as “Extraordinary Contrasts: Opera to Flamenco!” that brings a nationally known opera artist and flamenco choreography to the local stage; March 21 at 3 p.m. is the confirmed engagement, with any March 22 start time pending confirmation from Bay Atlantic Symphony or the Guaracini box office.