UPCOMING EVENTS
June 17 - August 23, 2019
SANTA FE OPERA
Cover Conductor/Continuo
COSI FAN TUTTE
by W.A. Mozart
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Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s final collaboration has delighted, confounded, and rewarded viewers ever since its 1790 premiere in Vienna. Their “School for Lovers” sports a highly experienced faculty and a progressive curriculum—required reading and written papers have all been replaced by experiential learning. Mesmerizingly beautiful music and a profound understanding of the heart illuminate this all-too-human situation, in which we can see ourselves onstage, to our discomfort and our delight.
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Musical preparation for
Renée Fleming & Harry Bicket
Letters from Georgia
by Kevin Puts
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Renowned American soprano Renée Fleming makes her Santa Fe Opera debut on Saturday, August 10, 2019. The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, under the baton of music director Harry Bicket, collaborates with Ms. Fleming on Kevin Puts' Letters from Georgia and Richard Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs).
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October 14 - November 3, 2019
TACOMA OPERA
Conductor
L'ELISIR D'AMORE
by Gaetano Donizetti
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A simple farmhand falls in love with a rich farmer's daughter. He buys a bottle of wine from a traveling sales man thinking it's a magic love potion. Calamity, confusion, and comic misadventures follow, but love wins in the end.
September 23 - October 13, 2019
FLORENTINE OPERA
Conductor
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
by Wolfgang Mozart
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Figaro and Susanna thwart the amorous tendencies of the count, and Mozart lays bare the struggles between the classes. Presented in the Marcus Center with the Milwaukee Symphony in the pit.
February 10 - March 1, 2020
DAYTON OPERA
Conductor
LA CENERENTOLA
by Gioachino Rossini
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Featuring MET winners Ashley Dixon and Carlos Santelli, with Kathleen Clawson directing. Performances will be in the magnificent Schuster Center, with the Dayton Philharmonic in the pit.
February 29 - March 22, 2020
OPERA BIRMINGHAM
Conductor
CENDRILLON
by Jules Massenet
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For the first time ever, Opera Birmingham brings to life Massenet's enchanting French opera, Cinderella! Featuring the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Birmingham Chorus in the Wright Center.
May 4 - May 24, 2020
ATLANTA OPERA
Music staff
GLORY DENIED
by Tom Cipullo
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America's longest held prisoner of war dreams of coming home. But home is not a place he will recognize. Tom Cipullo's Glory Denied explores the gut-wrenching saga of Col. Jim Thompson as he transitions from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the tree-lined streets of suburban America. Based on interviews collected for the 2001 chronicle by Tom Philpott, the opera pays witness to one soldier's journey, and to the war raging within the hearts and minds of countless returning veterans.