Opening 7/28 8:00 pm Willett Hall (Portsmouth) $73 $62 $49 $26
Matinee 7/30 2:00 pm Willett Hall (Portsmouth) $73 $62 $49 $26
This zany love story features the enchanting soprano Jan Grissom, returning as Donizetti’s heart stealing heroine, Marie. Young love triumphs in this lighthearted tale of valor and mistaken identity. Thrill to the perilous “nine high C’s” tenor aria that made Pavarotti famous! Maestro Walter Attanasi conducts the effervescent, unforgettable score. (Sung in French, with English dialogue and Supertext® supertitles)
About Maestro Walter Attanasi
One of the most interesting conductors of his generation, Walter Attanasi (Music Director/Conductor) has been invited to conduct both opera and concert repertoire in the world’s most prestigious theaters, including Teatro dell’ Opera/Rome, Budapest, Bratislava, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brno, Kiev, Pisa, Palermo, Teatro San Carlo/Naples, Teatro Comunale/Florence, Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires, Musikverein and Konzerthaus/Vienna, National Opera-Prague, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Manaus Festival/Brazil and the Chautauqua Festival. He is currently Music Director of TodiMusicFest-America, Italy’s UmbriaMusicFest, the Peter Dvorsky MusicFest in the Czech Republic and the Orchestra Filarmonica dell'Umbria. He has received critical acclaim for his vast musical versatility, conducting Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty at the Rome Opera, La Traviata in Munich and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in St. Etienne as well as collaborating with jazz greats Diane Reeves at Umbria Jazz (2001) and Quincy Jones at Rome’s Global Forum 2003. His rich discography includes Rossini’s Stabat Mater, recordings of Janacek and Dvorak, and all of the Beethoven Symphonies. He has recently recorded Nabucco in Amsterdam for Companions Opera. On New Year’s Eve 2004, Maestro Attanasi conducted a command performance at the request of Italian President Carlo Ciampi before a television audience of ten million, live from the Quirinale. This fall, he made a successful debut with the Hamburg State Opera, leading performances of IL TURCO IN ITALIA and COSI FAN TUTTE.
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Maestro Walter
Attanasi
Jan Grissom
Peter Strummer
Roderick Dixon
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