The Metropolitan Opera
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Grounded
Also Jess
September 24, 27 2024
October 2, 5, 9, 12, 16 & 19, 2024
Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, has its awaited company premiere. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, headlines in the tour-de-force role of Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she adjusts to this new way of doing battle, she struggles under the pressure to be the perfect soldier, the perfect wife, and the perfect mother all at the same time. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, leading a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who sweeps Jess off her feet. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.
houston Symphony
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beethoven Symphony No. 9
Nov 14th, 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas—one of the world’s most highly acclaimed conductors, and longtime Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony—leads the Houston Symphony and Chorus in a one-night-only performance of Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony.
A Prairie Home Companion Christmas
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Special Guest
December 13th, 14th, 2024
A Prairie Home Companion Christmas comes to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul – Songs, Stories, Sketches, and our Same Old Sponsors.
Oregon Symphony
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Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2
February 22, 23, 24th 2025
Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur
Adored for centuries for its heartwarming "Air on the G String," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to "cast off the works of darkness and take up the armor of light."
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (Hymn of Praise)
G.F. Handel - Israel in Egypt
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New Choral Society
Sunday, May 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hitchcock Presbyterian Church
John T. King, Conductor
Kathryn Lewek, Soprano
Ellie Dehn, Soprano
Alex McKissick, Tenor
Daniel Rich, Baritone
Dallas Symphony
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Das Rheingold
Freia
May 1st and 4th, 2024
Tonight, the “Prologue” of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung sets the mighty saga in motion and prepares you for what is to come: the conflict between love and power, and, ultimately, redemption through love. You’ll be plunged into the depths of the Rhine and hear the seductive siren song of the Rhine maidens; shudder at the curse placed on the possessor of all-power-giving ring of gold; fear for the folly of the gods as they traverse the rainbow bridge to enter their Valhalla palace — not knowing the doom that awaits them. With English supertitles.
Opera Colorado
Don Giovanni -
Donna Elvira
November 4, 7, 10, 12 | 2023
Be seduced by Mozart’s classic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, a tale about a serial womanizer who cares for nothing but fulfilling his own desires. This opera will sweep you away with its fine balance of comedy and tragedy, showing us the road to hell is paved with bad intentions. Will Don Giovanni stop playing fast and loose, or will he follow his passion to a fiery demise?
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at Denver Performing Arts Complex
Performed in Italian, with English and Spanish subtitles at every seat.
Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Opera Project XVIII
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Die Fledermaus
Rosalinde
March 18, 20, 24 & 27, 2022
Performances will be in three cities—Kyoto, which is also the center of production, Tokyo, and Yokosuka. Due to the impact of COVID-19, this will be the first time in three years that Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Opera Project performances will be held. The program will be Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, an operetta that was performed to great accolades in 2016 also at the ROHM Theatre Kyoto, which had just been reopened after renovations. We will deliver this cheery, light-hearted operetta masterpiece that can sweep away the dark mood of the era.
A Prairie Home Companion Revival
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Guest Artist
May 2nd, 7:30 PM
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado
Garrison Keillor captivates with his signature blend of humor, charisma and wisdom as he shares his journey to becoming one of America’s greatest storytellers. Crowds are instantly drawn in by his soothing, hypnotic voice, whimsical vignettes, and homespun brand of humor. Sharing his passion for everything from creativity and literacy to the great journey of life, Garrison entertains with a sage yet wry perspective, inspiring with kernels of wisdom audiences carry long after he has left the stage.
Guests include: Brad Paisley, Elvin Bishop Big Fun Trio, Ellie Dehn, Laurent Philippe, Heather Masse, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (Pat Donohue, Stuart Duncan, Gary Raynor)
Grant Park Music Festival
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Britten- Spring Symphony
Soprano Soloist
June 29/ July 1, 2022
Chicago, Illinois
The festival will open June 15 and run through August 20 for its standard span of ten weeks —after last summer’s slightly abridged season—- and offer the usual deftly balanced lineup of offbeat and rarely heard works alongside beloved orchestral favorites. The concert will take place at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.