Review: RENT IN CONCERT at The Kennedy Center
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She has also presented solo recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and Waterford (VA). Mr. Conlon’s extensive discography and videography can be found on the Bridge, Capriccio, Decca, EMI, Erato, and Sony Classical labels. His recordings of LA Opera productions have received four Grammy Awards, two respectively for John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
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He also returns to Switzerland’s Bern Symphony, where he is Principal Guest Conductor, to lead three programs including Schubert and Beethoven symphonies, a celebratory New Years Day concert, and a season finale with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Since his debut that year with La Traviata, he has conducted 67 different operas and more than 455 performances to date with the company. He portrayed Sellem in The Rake’s Progress with Princeton Festival; Bégearss in The Ghosts of Versailles with Aspen Opera Theater Center; and Demo in Cavalli’s Giasone with Chicago Opera Theater.
Orchestra
Superior and innovative lighting design by Cory Pattak stood out at the right moments ---shafts of lights in various hues of red and blue hit the stage from overhead and from differing directions in a most effective manner. The ensemble of theatrical talent and vocalists here was tightly knit together and all were at the top of their game but there were certain standouts. I occasionally wished there could have been surtitles-- for the procession of lyrics flew by so fast but, luckily, the talented artists assembled here delivered clear diction so you could hear most every line.
Original Lighting Design
Turandot recounts the story of Princess Lou-Ling, her ancestor, dragged away by invading Tartars (“In questa reggia”). Hatred for the man who killed her lives on in Turandot’s heart, and no man shall ever possess her. He tells her that if she can discover his name before dawn, he will let her have him executed.
Review: RENT IN CONCERT at The Kennedy Center
From 2008 to 2011 he was the artistic adviser and principal stage director for Opera Omaha, where he led a cycle of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas. He began directing for the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in 2004, receiving a faculty appointment in 2006. He was on staff at the Aspen Music Festival and School from 1993 and joined the faculty from 1997 until 2019. In 2022 he joins the faculty of University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music as Lecturer in Opera Studies and Stage Director. Additional highlights of his season include returning to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to lead Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and conducting Wagner’s Lohengrin at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
So it’s appropriate that the conclusion of this new adaptation has been conceived by video-game composer Christopher Tin, along with playwright and screenwriter Susan Soon He Stanton. In her new book, The Swans of Harlem, the author tells the story of five Black ballerinas whose groundbreaking history with Dance Theatre of Harlem has long been untold. Valby will be joined by founding company members Lydia Abarca Mitchell (on the left, performing with Derek Williams) and Sheila Rohan, along with later dancers Marcia Lynn Sells and Karlya Shelton-Benjamin. Scene TwoEight wise men appear in the square carrying scrolls with the answers to the three riddles (“Gravi, enormi ed impotenti”). The ancient Emperor, enthroned in venerable majesty, begs Calaf to leave, but the Tartar prince will not yield.
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Jimmie Herrod’s portrayal of Angel (who comes to a sad end) was spot-on with an engaging quality of naivete at times. Mr. Herrod’s textured and sensitive tones often reminded me of a young Johnny Mathis (this is meant as a supreme compliment). Herrod moved the audience with the emotional song “I’ll Cover You” for his lover Tom Collins (a wonderful performance by Terrance Johnson). Andrew Barth Feldman’s performance and interpretation of the idealistic Mark Cohen was refreshingly very natural and relaxed looking. Feldman’s rendition of “Halloween” was an affecting ode to conflicting thoughts.
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The crowd cries out for blood, calling on the moon to rise, for that is the moment of execution. Turandot appears to signal the execution and Calaf is captivated by her heavenly beauty. Timur and Liù try to impress upon him that pursuing his infatuation will only end badly as the Prince of Persia is executed, but Calaf will hear none of it.
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I can easily see how this cutting-edge and forward-looking show may have influenced such productions as Next to Normal and Jagged Little Pill. Kennedy Center Opera House, located in Washington DC, DC is a versatile venue that hosts a variety of concert and theater events throughout the year. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra will take on one of Gustav Mahler’s most challenging and rewarding works. “Chasing the Bus,” the lead single from the new album Ten Fold, riffs on the atmospheric Quiet Storm template, with lyrics of romantic desire doubling as a chronicle of Bey’s struggles in the music industry. Act ThreeThe heralds announce that by order of Princess Turandot, tonight no man shall sleep. Calaf vows to only reveal his name to Turandot once daylight has broken (“Nessun dorma!”).
He also frequently collaborates with universities, museums, and other cultural institutions and works with scholars, practitioners, and community members across disciplines. He frequently appears throughout the country as a speaker on a variety of cultural and educational topics. Mr. Conlon is an enthusiastic advocate of public scholarship and cultural institutions as forums for the exchange of ideas and inquiry into the role music plays in our shared humanity and civic life. At LA Opera, he leads pre-performance talks, drawing upon musicology, literary studies, history, and social sciences to contemplate—together with his audience—the enduring power and relevance of opera and classical music in general. Additionally, he frequently collaborates with universities, museums, and other cultural institutions, and works with scholars, practitioners, and community members across disciplines.
Ping, Pang, and Pong try to wrench the secret from Calaf, but he refuses all of their attempts to elicit his name. The soldiers try to torture it out of her, but she grabs one of their daggers and stabs herself, declaring that by her sacrifice, the princess will come to love the stranger. Calaf indignantly kisses Turandot, trying to thaw the princess of ice (“Principessa di morte!”). When the crowd asks if she knows the stranger’s name, she replies, looking into Calaf’s eyes, “His name is love! Insatiably curious and even more energetic, Tom enthusiastically embraced new technologies in the theater. He developed innovative ways to use projections and was instrumental in installing some of the earliest computerized lighting systems.
In 2008 she joined an elite group of history’s singers when, as Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani, she made her professional operatic debut on the Met stage. Since then she has fast become recognized as one of today’s outstanding vocalists, excelling in the most demanding heroines of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire as well as in the operas of Verdi and Mozart. New York credits include Forever Dusty for New World Stages, Pinocchio's Ashes for Theater for a New City and The Saint of Bleecker Street at Dicapo Opera Theatre, among others, and he has worked at numerous regional opera and theater companies around the country. A British artist based in Los Angeles for many years, David Hockney (born 1937) is a distinguished designer, artist and author whose work has been seen at the world’s most prestigious venues. He is among the most visible and well-known serious contemporary artists of our time.
Kitty has collaborated extensively with the LA Philharmonic, developing new productions of Rite of Spring, Firebird, Bolero, Esa Pekka Salonen’s Wing on Wing, A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and more. Ballets include RIFT, commissioned by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the Kennedy Center, the creation of the new ballets Traces and Transit for National Choreographer’s Initiative and colony for LA Ballet’s NEXT Wave Series. Conlon holds four honorary doctorates, was one of the first five recipients of the Opera News Awards, and was distinguished by the New York Public Library as a Library Lion.
He also conducts Verdi’s La Traviata—the first opera he led as Music Director of LA Opera—continuing his multi-season focus on the works of the great Italian composer. To date, Conlon has conducted more than 500 international performances of Verdi’s repertoire. Conlon closes his LA Opera season honoring the 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death, conducting Turandot, Puccini’s final opera composed in 1924. Conlon is deeply invested in the role of music in civic life and the human experience. At LA Opera, his popular pre-performance talks blend musicology, literary studies, history, and social sciences to discuss the enduring power and relevance of opera and classical music.
When the Opera House was renovated following the 1989 earthquake, he was an integral part of the design of the new theatrical lighting system. He also served as the lighting consultant for the 2006 renovation of the historic St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco. In the first few years of his professional career, Ashley has become a sought-after vocalist for new works and experimental projects working closely with composers from across the country including, Lewis Pesacov, Rand Steiger, Bruno Louchouarn, Christopher Cerrone, Anne LeBaron and many more. He also appears as Joe in the DVD of the San Francisco Opera production of Show Boat, and in the DVDs of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Salome and the Aix-en-Provence Festival’s production of Mozart’s Zaide. Her interpretation of Lina in Verdi's Stiffelio was released on DVD in a production from Parma. Guanqun Yu is also familiar with the French repertoire singing Micaëla in Carmen and Mathilde in Guillaume Tell – a role which brought her a great personal triumph in a new production at Hamburg State Opera.
Orchestra seats are in a prime location in terms of acoustics, allowing for a clear and balanced audio experience throughout the concert. Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can solve her three riddles; all who fail must die. The kingdom has gathered to witness the execution of the latest to fail, the Prince of Persia. Timur, the deposed King of the Tartars, old and blind, hides among the crowd with his servant girl Liù.
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