Sheboygan Symphony to play popular opera works
Sheboygan Symphony May concert celebrates world's greatest opera choruses.
Sheboygan Symphony to play popular opera works Sheboygan Symphony May concert celebrates world's greatest opera choruses. Check out this story on sheboyganpress.com: https://shebpr.es/2717TaO
USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin Published 4:22 p.m. CT May 6, 2016
Erin Elizabeth Smith(Photo: Photo courtesy Sheboygan Symphony)
The Sheboygan Symphony's May concert is a celebration of some of the world's greatest opera choruses of all times. The orchestra is joined by Erin Elizabeth Smith, a world class singer who was nurtured as an artist by Placido Domingo at the National Opera along with our own Sheboygan Symphony Chorus.
It has been many years since the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have offered a theatre night, and longer yet for an opera based event.
"There will be palpable joy as the orchestra, chorus and soloists traverse much of the four-hundred year operatic history. Furthermore, many of the best opera composers are represented on this program, including Mozart, Puccini, and Wagner," Music Director Kevin McMahon said.
The music is familiar from television, fame on worldwide operatic stages and popular wedding selections. The performance will feature a new format including three acts and two intermissions.
"I cut my teeth professionally with 16 years of opera in Chicago and Rome, Italy," McMahon said. There is great delight sharing opera with Sheboygan. The anvils, bells, voices, and instruments of the orchestra will ensure the evening is a passion-filled and moving experience. I guarantee this will be a night to remember."
Mezzo-Soprano, Erin Elizabeth Smith is garnering worldwide acclaim in her young mezzo-soprano career. Opera News said of a recent performance: she "brought to bear an impassioned delivery, a powerful tragic face and a powerful rich voice, impressive for accuracy of pinpoint pitch and attack."
At the Washington National Opera, she has performed Emilia in Otello opposite Placido Domingo, Ninetta in I Vespri Siciliani under the baton of Maestro Domingo, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Wanda in Sophie's Choice, Mariana in Luisa Fernanda, Hänsel in Hänsel and Gretel, Giannetta in L'Elisir d'Amore, and Sesto cover in La Clemenza di Tito, while participating in the prestigious Domingo Cafritz young artist program.
The Sheboygan Symphony Chorus, formed in 1994 to complement the work of the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, consists of over 60 talented singers from all walks of life. This gifted group of friends, neighbors and colleagues has continued to expand its wide repertoire of music as it performs regularly with the Sheboygan Symphony.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. May 14 at the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets are $39, $35, $30, and $15 for students and are available from the Symphony Office at 920- 452-1985 or the Weill Center ticket office at 920-208-3243. Tickets are also available in the box office two hours prior to concert.
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