National Opera Week Calendar of Events 11-06-2009 Click here to return to the main Opera Week page. Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00 pmWagner’s Die Walküre at the Bryn Mawr Film InstituteConducted by Zubin Mehta. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. Cirque du Soleil meets classical opera in this production of Die Walküre, the second opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle. An innovative visual fantasy that employs dazzling 3-D computer projections along with a group of athletic performers who seamlessly shape shift from one organic form to the next. Before the screening, BMFI will show clips from Opera Company of Philadelphia performances and soprano Helen Huse-Ralston, who sings the role of Ortlinde in the film, will talk about the production. Visit www.brynmawrfilm.org. Thursday, November 12th at 7:30pmPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society at the Independence Seaport Museum:Thomas Hampson, baritone and Craig Rutenberg, pianoIn a year which saw him named as New York Philharmonic’s first Artist in Residence, famed classical artist Thomas Hampson is devoting much of his 2009-2010 season to the “Song of America” project, celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the first song written by an American. Visit www.philadelphiachambermusic.org/ Friday, November 13th at 10:00 amOpera Company of Philadelphia Spring 2010 Tickets Go On SaleGet 10% off your purchase by using the code OPERAWEEK between November 13th and 22nd at www.operaphila.org or Ticket Philadelphia, 215-893-1018. Friday, November 13 at 11:00 amCurtis Institute of Music Master Class with Thomas HampsonField Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust StreetThomas Hampson, one of today’s most respected and sought-after baritones, shares his expertise with students from the Curtis Vocal Studies Department in a two-hour master class. Admission is free, but due to limited seating, reservations are required. To RSVP, visit http://hampsonmasterclass.eventbrite.com. Friday, November 13th at 6:00 pmOpera Company of Philadelphia “Greatest Hits” broadcast at the Piazza at Schmidt’sThe Piazza at Schmidt's (2nd and Germantown Avenue) will show a "Best of Opera Company of Philadelphia" highlights video on the big screen as Philadelphia starts its weekend at this popular after-work destination.http://www.atthepiazza.com/ Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s Falstaff – Opening Night!Academy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce StreetVerdi's retelling of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor features a lighthearted, slapstick plot and a brilliant score. Fully staged with orchestra, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Conductor: Christopher Macatsoris. Stage Director: Tito Capobianco. November 13, 17, 19, 21 & 23, 2009.Visit www.avaopera.org or call 215-735-1685 Sunday, November 15th at 1:00 pmWagner’s Die Walküre at the Bryn Mawr Film InstituteBefore the screening begins, BMFI will show clips from Opera Company of Philadelphia performances and a pre-screening discussion of the opera will be led by Opera Company Director of Community Programs Michael Bolton. Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffAcademy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce Street November 17th, 18th & 19th at 11:30 a.m.Academy of Music Public Tours – FREE!Learn all of the beautiful secrets of America’s oldest, continuously-running opera, the Academy of Music. Built in 1857, an experienced Kimmel Center Guide leads this free, one-hour guided tour of the opera house where some of the greatest voices of all-time have performed! Advance registration required: Please call 215-790-5886 to pre-register. November 18th, 2009 at 1:15 p.m.Opera Company of Philadelphia brings opera to the HMS School for Children with Cerebral PalsySoprano Veronica Chapman-Smith sings popular opera arias and speaks to students at the HMS School for Cerebral Palsy. She will also reads to the students as part of the school’s Guest Reader Program. Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – Opening Night!The Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut StreetBeware of temptation: The devil's twisted way with a young man's idle wish triggers a wild journey to Bedlam in Stravinsky's dark moral tale. Fully staged production with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, sung in the original English. November 19, 20, 21 & 22m, 2009. Ari Pelto, conductor. Emma Griffin, stage director. Visit www.curtis.edu or call 215-893-7902 Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffAcademy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce Street Friday, November 20th at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut StreetFree pre-concert conversation at 6:30 p.m. at the Prince Music Theater with Emma Griffin, stage director for The Rake’s Progress, and Mikael Eliasen, artistic director of the Curtis Opera Theatre. This event is sponsored by the Crescendo Club, a group of young friends of the Curtis Institute of Music. Tickets for the conversation are not required; cash bar; visit: http://crescendoclubandtherake.eventbrite.com to RSVP. For tickets to the performance at 7:30 p.m., visit www.curtis.edu or call 215-893-7902. Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentral Bucks South High School, 1100 Folly Road, Warrington, PA Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street Sunday, November 22nd , 2009 at 2:30pmFREE RECITAL: OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIATenor William Burden and Baritone Troy CookOld Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine StreetThis recital features two Opera Company of Philadelphia favorites and is free to the public! Reservations are required, visit http://operaweekfreerecital.eventbrite.com Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 2:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street Monday, November 23rd , 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentennial Hall, The Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 10:00 am Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentennial Hall, The Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA Over 500 students participating in the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s Sounds of Learning™ program will study Falstaff in their classrooms and then attend AVA’s student performance of the opera. The performance includes a talkback session with AVA’s resident artists. WHYY Programming During Opera Week on Digital Y Arts Channel Y Arts can be found over the air at 12.2 (Comcast 257, FiOS 474) RICHARD TUCKER GALA: An Opera Celebration Friday, November 20 at 10:00 PMThe Richard Tucker Opera Gala concert from New York’s Lincoln Center features celebrated stars such as Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau and others singing popular pieces by Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner and Bernstein. Maestro Asher Fisch conducts members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Choral Society. GREAT PERFORMANCES "BEVERLY SILLS IN AMERICA"Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 pm Please click here to view the Opera Company of Philadelphia Calendar. Click here to return to the main Opera Week page.
Click here to return to the main Opera Week page.
Wednesday, November 11th at 7:00 pmWagner’s Die Walküre at the Bryn Mawr Film InstituteConducted by Zubin Mehta. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. Cirque du Soleil meets classical opera in this production of Die Walküre, the second opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle. An innovative visual fantasy that employs dazzling 3-D computer projections along with a group of athletic performers who seamlessly shape shift from one organic form to the next. Before the screening, BMFI will show clips from Opera Company of Philadelphia performances and soprano Helen Huse-Ralston, who sings the role of Ortlinde in the film, will talk about the production. Visit www.brynmawrfilm.org.
Thursday, November 12th at 7:30pmPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society at the Independence Seaport Museum:Thomas Hampson, baritone and Craig Rutenberg, pianoIn a year which saw him named as New York Philharmonic’s first Artist in Residence, famed classical artist Thomas Hampson is devoting much of his 2009-2010 season to the “Song of America” project, celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the first song written by an American. Visit www.philadelphiachambermusic.org/
Friday, November 13th at 10:00 amOpera Company of Philadelphia Spring 2010 Tickets Go On SaleGet 10% off your purchase by using the code OPERAWEEK between November 13th and 22nd at www.operaphila.org or Ticket Philadelphia, 215-893-1018.
Friday, November 13 at 11:00 amCurtis Institute of Music Master Class with Thomas HampsonField Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust StreetThomas Hampson, one of today’s most respected and sought-after baritones, shares his expertise with students from the Curtis Vocal Studies Department in a two-hour master class. Admission is free, but due to limited seating, reservations are required. To RSVP, visit http://hampsonmasterclass.eventbrite.com.
Friday, November 13th at 6:00 pmOpera Company of Philadelphia “Greatest Hits” broadcast at the Piazza at Schmidt’sThe Piazza at Schmidt's (2nd and Germantown Avenue) will show a "Best of Opera Company of Philadelphia" highlights video on the big screen as Philadelphia starts its weekend at this popular after-work destination.http://www.atthepiazza.com/
Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s Falstaff – Opening Night!Academy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce StreetVerdi's retelling of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor features a lighthearted, slapstick plot and a brilliant score. Fully staged with orchestra, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Conductor: Christopher Macatsoris. Stage Director: Tito Capobianco. November 13, 17, 19, 21 & 23, 2009.Visit www.avaopera.org or call 215-735-1685
Sunday, November 15th at 1:00 pmWagner’s Die Walküre at the Bryn Mawr Film InstituteBefore the screening begins, BMFI will show clips from Opera Company of Philadelphia performances and a pre-screening discussion of the opera will be led by Opera Company Director of Community Programs Michael Bolton.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffAcademy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce Street
November 17th, 18th & 19th at 11:30 a.m.Academy of Music Public Tours – FREE!Learn all of the beautiful secrets of America’s oldest, continuously-running opera, the Academy of Music. Built in 1857, an experienced Kimmel Center Guide leads this free, one-hour guided tour of the opera house where some of the greatest voices of all-time have performed! Advance registration required: Please call 215-790-5886 to pre-register.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:15 p.m.Opera Company of Philadelphia brings opera to the HMS School for Children with Cerebral PalsySoprano Veronica Chapman-Smith sings popular opera arias and speaks to students at the HMS School for Cerebral Palsy. She will also reads to the students as part of the school’s Guest Reader Program.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – Opening Night!The Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut StreetBeware of temptation: The devil's twisted way with a young man's idle wish triggers a wild journey to Bedlam in Stravinsky's dark moral tale. Fully staged production with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, sung in the original English. November 19, 20, 21 & 22m, 2009. Ari Pelto, conductor. Emma Griffin, stage director. Visit www.curtis.edu or call 215-893-7902
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffAcademy of Vocal Arts Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce Street
Friday, November 20th at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut StreetFree pre-concert conversation at 6:30 p.m. at the Prince Music Theater with Emma Griffin, stage director for The Rake’s Progress, and Mikael Eliasen, artistic director of the Curtis Opera Theatre. This event is sponsored by the Crescendo Club, a group of young friends of the Curtis Institute of Music. Tickets for the conversation are not required; cash bar; visit: http://crescendoclubandtherake.eventbrite.com to RSVP. For tickets to the performance at 7:30 p.m., visit www.curtis.edu or call 215-893-7902.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentral Bucks South High School, 1100 Folly Road, Warrington, PA
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 7:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street
Sunday, November 22nd , 2009 at 2:30pmFREE RECITAL: OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIATenor William Burden and Baritone Troy CookOld Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine StreetThis recital features two Opera Company of Philadelphia favorites and is free to the public! Reservations are required, visit http://operaweekfreerecital.eventbrite.com
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 2:30pmCurtis Opera Theatre presentsStravinsky’s The Rake’s ProgressThe Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street
Monday, November 23rd , 2009 at 7:30pm Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentennial Hall, The Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 10:00 am Academy of Vocal Arts presentsVerdi’s FalstaffCentennial Hall, The Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA Over 500 students participating in the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s Sounds of Learning™ program will study Falstaff in their classrooms and then attend AVA’s student performance of the opera. The performance includes a talkback session with AVA’s resident artists.
WHYY Programming During Opera Week on Digital Y Arts Channel Y Arts can be found over the air at 12.2 (Comcast 257, FiOS 474)
RICHARD TUCKER GALA: An Opera Celebration Friday, November 20 at 10:00 PMThe Richard Tucker Opera Gala concert from New York’s Lincoln Center features celebrated stars such as Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau and others singing popular pieces by Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner and Bernstein. Maestro Asher Fisch conducts members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Choral Society. GREAT PERFORMANCES "BEVERLY SILLS IN AMERICA"Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 pm
RICHARD TUCKER GALA: An Opera Celebration Friday, November 20 at 10:00 PMThe Richard Tucker Opera Gala concert from New York’s Lincoln Center features celebrated stars such as Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau and others singing popular pieces by Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Wagner and Bernstein. Maestro Asher Fisch conducts members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Choral Society.
GREAT PERFORMANCES "BEVERLY SILLS IN AMERICA"Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 pm
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