Performance Schedule 2008

March 3 and 4
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber)
Ein Deutches Requiem (Brahms)
PORTLAND SYMPHONY
Robert Russell, conductor

 

March 9
B-Minor Mass (Bach)
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE
   with MUSICA ANGELICA
Grant Gershon, conductor

 

March 29, April 4 and 6
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) -- Rosina
DAYTON OPERA
Neal Gittleman, conductor
Gary Briggle, director

 

April 19 and 20
Carmina Burana (Orff)
FARGO-MOORHEAD SYMPHONY
Bernard Rubenstein, conductor

 

May 3 and 4
Carmina Burana (Orff)
SANTA FE SYMPHONY AND CHORUS
Steven Smith, conductor

 

June 8, 12, 14, 18 and 20
Una Cosa Rara (y Soler) -- Queen Isabella
OPERA THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS
Corrado Rovaris, conductor Chas Rader-Shieber, director

 

July 26
Midsummers Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn)
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA - BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Drew Carey, narrator

October 11, 17 and 19
Rigoletto (Verdi) -- Gilda
ARIZONA OPERA
Richard Buckley, conductor
David Gately, director
with Gordon Hawkins, Garrett Sorenson, Peter Volpe and Elizabeth Batton
 
November 1
Exsultate, Jubilate (Mozart)
Song Cycle (Rorem) – World Premiere
IRIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Michael Stern, conductor

November 14 and 15
Sheherazade (Ravel)
DELAWARE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
David Amado, conductor

December 6 and 7
Messiah (Handel)
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
Jerry Blackstone, conductor

December 11, 12, 13 and 14
Carmina Burana (Orff)
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Robert Baker, tenor & Hugh Russell, baritone

December 17 and 18
Messiah (Handel)
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor