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Norman Reintamm, Principal Conductor / Artistic Director
Ines Pagliari, Concertmaster

The 2011-2012 Season

25 years of enhancing lives in Scarborough!

Next Concert:

Subscription Concert #5
8 pm Saturday May 26, 2012
P.C. Ho Theatre
5183 Sheppard Ave. East (east of Markham Road)


Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Marion Samuel-Stevens, soprano |
Iris Rodrigues, soprano | Chelsea Säuer, mezzo-soprano |
Chris Coyne, tenor | John David Jasper, baritone

Highlights from the wonderfully romantic and comic opera by Richard Strauss, telling the tale of a bittersweet love affair. The countess realizing that she will inevitably lose her young lover, chooses to set him free.

Richard Strauss - Caecile Marion Samuel-Stevens, soprano

Johann Strauss - Prince Orlovsky Couplets (from Die Fledermaus)
Chelsea Säuer, mezzo-soprano

Bizet - Pearl Fishers Duet (from The Pearl Fishers) Chris Coyne, tenor | John David Jasper, baritone

Johann Strauss - Du und Du Waltz (from Die Fledermaus)

Johann Strauss - Mein Herr Marquis (from Die Fledermaus)
Iris Rodrigues, soprano

Richard Strauss - Zueignung Jamie Naka, soprano

Pre-Concert Lecture starts at 7:15 pm

Pre-Concert Guest Lecturer: John Rutherford

Tonight's pre-performance speaker is John Rutherford who has had a love affair with opera for almost a lifetime. He has taught courses on "The Meaning of Opera" for the University of Toronto and Ryerson University and has been a pre-performance speaker for the Canadian Opera Company for almost twenty years.

Tonight he will be talking about Richard Strauss and the opera,"Der Rosenkavalier", which will serve as an introduction to the "Rosenkavalier Waltzes" featured on tonight's programme."



"If music be the food of love, play on." - Shakespeare

 

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