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Viva L'Opera!
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Sunday, Nov. 13, Pre-concert lecture at 2 p.m. Concert at 3 p.m
Members of the voice faculty perform arias, duets and ensembles from opera's best known works. This concert kicks off a week-long festival celebrating the extravagant art of opera. A preconcert lecture focuses on the lives and legends of some of opera's great divas as well as curious and humorous performance moments on and off-stage.
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The Celluloid Diva:
Great Operatic Moments on Film
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Monday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Jonathan Palevsky, WBJC-FM
Who are your favorite opera divas in film? What are your favorite opera moments in film? This entertaining and informative evening features a special guest opera aficionado who will educate patrons about the world of opera on film and some of the great divas who have helped to immortalize opera on the big screen or through live recorded performances. Enjoy a smorgasbord of the greatest operatic excerpts from historical and current operas on film. No opera glasses required! Seating is limited.
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Tuesdays @ Towson
"It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Lady Plays:
Instrumental Works Arranged from Operas"
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Guest Pianist: James Harp, Artistic Director Baltimore Lyric Opera. A concert of instrumental chamber music arrangements from opera.
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Opera Idol: Aria Contest
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 8:15 p.m.
A group of student semi-finalists from the Department of Music Voice Division perform an evening of opera arias. The twist? The audience picks the winners! Cash prizes will be awarded to the first and second place winners. While ballots are tabulated, the audience will have the chance to win door prizes based upon their responses to an opera quiz.
Admission is free but tickets are required.
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An Evening of Opera Scenes
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Friday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m.
The Music for the Stage ensemble presents a varied program of opera scenes and arias
presented in a workshop setting.
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Opera for Children:
Little Red's Most Unusual Day
Conceived by John Davies with Music by Jacques Offenback and Gioachino Rossini
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Saturday, Nov. 19, 9:30 & 11:30 a.m., Opera performances
Opera in a Can–Resident Children's Opera Company Phillip Collister, director, Patricia McKewen Amato, piano Towson's Opera in a Can, the resident children's opera company, presents this charming version of the Little Red Riding Hood tale which uses the music of Offenbach and Rossini as the basis for the music score. Dudley, the forest ranger, Mr. Big Bad, Granny, Mom and Little Red all have a rollicking time in this innovative children's opera adapted by John Davies. Between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., children are invited to meet the cast in the lobby and take part in activities which will spark their operatic imaginations to, perhaps, become future singers themselves!
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Three American One-Act Operas
A Game Of Chance and Not a Spanish Kiss by Seymour Barab,
and Captain Lovelock by John Duke
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Saturday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.
Phillip Collister, director and musical director
Rachel Roulet, piano
Music for the Stage presents three comic American one-act operas. A Game of Chance, by Seymour Barab, tells the story of three women who each want something more in their lives. A
messenger of fate grants them their desires, but their wishes turn out to be different than they imagined. Not A Spanish Kiss, by Seymour Barab, is a modern commedia dell'arte tale about a man who buys a kiss from the wife of a wealthy financier. However, the much anticipated kiss does not fulfill the price he paid! Captain Lovelock, by Maryland composer John Duke, tells the story of an elderly widow who is determined to remarry a handsome military man. Her daughters, her maid, and a marriage broker all scheme to teach the widow a lesson she'll never forget.
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Rosa Ponselle Citta'di Caiazzo
Vocal Competition Winners
Simeone Tartaglione, conductor
Baltimore Concert ArtistTowson University Choirs
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Sunday, Nov. 20 2 p.m. Pre-concert lecture 3 p.m. Concert
Towson University in conjunction with the Italian Cultural Center, Inc. of Maryland, under the patronage of the Consul General of Italy in Baltimore, Dr. Francesco Luigi Legaluppi, is a presenting sponsor of the U.S. winners concert for the first annual Rosa Ponselle City of Caiazzo Vocal Competition. Ponselle was influential in beginning the former Baltimore Opera Company and her legacy as one of the leading divas of her generation lives on today. Baltimore Concert Artists and the Towson University Chorale accompany the international roster of winners. A free pre-concert lecture given by Professor Emeritus Bette Hankin explores the life and legacy of Rosa Ponselle." Ms. Hankin was a life-long friend of Rosa Ponselle.
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