Current Season and Tickets
November 30, 2011 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall
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Moïse et Pharaon
This opera-in-concert presentation is Rossini’s enthralling French-language setting – replete with romance, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and acts of God – of Moses and his brother Eliezer leading the Jews out of the land of Pharaoh and into freedom, with the help of plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. The story is impassioned and the music is gorgeous. Guest artists include James Morris, Kyle Ketelsen, Angela Meade, Eric Cutler, Marina Rebeka, Michele Angelini, Ginger Costa-Jackson, John Matthew Myers, Joe Damon Chappel, and Christopher Roselli, with the American Symphony Orchestra.
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February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall
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Te Deum and A Child of Our Time
Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum in C Major was described by fellow composer Gustav Mahler as a work “for the tongues of angels, heaven-blest, chastened hearts, and souls purified in the fire!”
Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1941) is a unique oratorio, structured in three parts to emulate Handel’s Messiah and using traditional African-American spirituals in a form similar to Bach’s use of the chorale in his Passions, all with a decidedly twentieth-century musical language. The text of this stirring work reflects Tippett's pacifism and belief that people contain both "shadow and light."
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April 10, 2012 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall
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The Mikado
One of the most frequently produced musical theatre pieces in history, The Mikado is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. Debuted by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on March 14, 1885, The Mikado was Gilbert and Sullivan’s ninth collaborative work. It explores the exotic, macabre, and humorous while satirizing British politics and institutions in the fictionalized town of Titipu. Featuring Victoria Clark, Chuck Cooper, Jason Danieley, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Freeman, Amy Justman, Kelli O'Hara, Steve Rosen, and Lauren Worsham, our performance will be conducted and directed by Ted Sperling.
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May 21, 2012 at 7pm at Saint Bartholomew's Church
Contemporary Voices
This final concert of our 70th Anniversary Season will feature contemporary musical gems by masters of choral composition. The concert will open with a work that The Chorale premiered in 1947, Aaron Copland's In The Beginning, for mezzo-soprano soloist and a cappella choir. The sanctuary of Saint Bartholomew's Church will provide a beautiful setting for this music, conducted by The Chorale's Music Director James Bagwell.
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