Yatra: Opera Recital by Aastha Mohapatra

📅 Date: 15 May 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC Main Building
🎭 Category: Cultural Programme

An evening that feels like a musical journey across time and emotion. Yatra brings together a thoughtfully curated opera recital that moves through dreams, memories, and cultures—blending Western classical greats with notes from the East.

Featuring compositions by legends like Verdi, Mahler, Schubert, Puccini, and Rachmaninoff, the programme spans multiple languages and eras, making it a rich, layered listening experience. Leading the evening is Aastha Mohapatra, a New Delhi-based operatic soprano trained under the late Situ Singh Buehler and Prof. Jennifer Hamilton at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London. She is currently honing her craft with opera singer and voice coach Adrienne Chandok.

She is accompanied by pianist Anuvrat Choudhary, a Tata Scholar who has performed at NCPA Mumbai and received a bursary from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation for his Master’s in Music. If you’re in the mood for something slightly different from the usual Delhi evenings, this one promises a soulful detour into the world of opera.