I’m looking forward to the final performance on Sunday afternoon of Seattle Opera’s Holiday Chorus Concert showcasing the company’s impressive chorus.
The program features a blend of sacred and secular repertoire, including Ottorino Respighi’s Lauda per la natività del Signore, the choral prelude to Pietro Mascagni’s Zanetto, “Laudi alla Vergine Maria” from Giuseppe Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri, “There Is No Rose” by local composer Melinda Bargreen, choruses from Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, the “Sleep” chorus from Kevin Puts’s Silent Night, and selections from A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols by P.D.Q. Bach.
Run time approx. 90 minutes with intermission
Tickets are $65 general public, $50 subscribers; 1 Flex Pass credit. Sold out, but call Audience Services for the latest ticket availability at 206.389.7676.
Seattle Opera Chorus also plans to undertake its first-ever tour of the Puget Sound region in January, with concerts at McIntyre Performing Arts & Conference Center in Mount Vernon on Friday, January 26, and at Vashon Center for the Arts on Vashon Island on Sunday, January 28.
“This is a unique chance to see the chorus outside of a production and to get to know these artists more intimately,” said Chorus Master Michaella Calzaretta, who is in her second full season with the company. “Our program offers a range of music that highlights the chorus’s power and dynamism and that won’t be heard anywhere else in Seattle. An opera chorus offers a truly distinct sound world—I think we might surprise some people with the breadth of emotions and styles we’re capable of producing.”
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 