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Orchestra of Europe in Lisbon, as well as Mozart’s Requiem with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 (“Lobgesang”) with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra.
Motion Picture. In 2007, she appeared in the film, Breach, with Chris Cooper and Ryan Phillippe. In 2006, she starred as Kit Holliday in the Focus Feature film, Hollywoodland, opposite Adrien Brody. Ms. Dhavernas made her American television debut in 2004 in the critically acclaimed FOX series, Wonderfalls.
Hae Ji Chang Soprano Hae Ji Chang is an artist diploma student at the New England Conservatory. She earned her master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she has performed the roles of Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Lydie in Pénélope, and the title role in scenes from Maria Stuarda. Ms. Chang received her Bachelor of Music degree and Master of Music degree from Seoul National University where she performed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She recently performed Pamina in The Magic Flute at New England Conservatory. Ms. Chang also sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at Aspen Music Festival where she performed Pamina in The Magic Flute and Zerlina in Don Giovanni in a scenes program. Ms. Chang has won numerous awards and honors, including a Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridges Grant Award; first prize in Dong-A Music Competition; first prize in E-Hwa Kyung-Hyang Music Competition; second prize in Shin,Young-Ok Music Competition; and second prize in Schubert Lieder Competition. She was also awarded a President’s Award from Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Chang sang Giannetta from L’elisir d’Amore at New York City Opera last March and Mélisande from Pelléas et Mélisande at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in June.
Ronald Guttman Ronald Guttman has served as the narrator for Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish with Karita Mattila at Salle Pleyel in Paris, for Arthur Honegger’s Le roi David in Brussels, and at the Music Festival of the Hamptons for the past six years. His theater credits include work at Second Stage, Classical Stage,The Mint, Long Wharf, National Theatre of Belgium, and Théâtre Antoine in Paris, among others. Mr. Guttman has appeared in many American films and TV series, most recently as the conductor Carlo Treviso in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet. Upcoming movies include 13 with Mickey Rourke and Michael Shannon and Imogene with Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening. For a more complete list of credits, visit imdb.com.
This season, Ms.Wilson sings the title role in Aida at Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile. “A bona fide Verdi soprano,” she will also sing Elisabeth de Valois in the five-act French version of Don Carlos at Houston Grand Opera and debut at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse as Leonora in a new production of Il trovatore. She was a featured soloist at the 2010 NEA Opera Honors and had the honor of being Washington National Opera’s 2011 Singer of the Year. On the concert stage, Ms.Wilson will make her Carnegie Hall debut this season with the BSO in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, singing the role of the Virgin Mary. Recently, she has been soprano soloist for performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with John Nelson and the Chamber
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Kelley O’Connor The Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor has emerged as one of the most compelling performers of her generation. During the 2011-12 season her impressive calendar includes the world premiere of a new oratorio by John Adams, The Gospel According to the Other Mary,
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commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. Ms. O’Connor also sings Ursule in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict with Opera Boston, and Federico García Lorca in a Peter Sellars staging of Golijov’s Ainadamar at Teatro Real in Madrid. In June 2011 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra released a recording of Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, featuring Ms. O’Connor. Neruda Songs has highlighted her prominence as one of the world’s leading concert artists in two significant European debuts: performances with David Zinman and the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Additionally, the work served her Carnegie Hall debut in a performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink.
Timothy Fallon Timothy Fallon is a native of Binghamton, N.Y., and holds a bachelor’s degree from Westminster Choir College, Princeton (New Jersey), and an artist diploma from the Juilliard Opera Center,The Juilliard School of Music, New York. Since 2007 he has been engaged at The Leipzig Opera (Germany), where he has sung roles such as Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss, and Almaviva in Rossini’s Barber of Seville. In 2009, he made his debut in the leading tenor role in Rossini’s Turco in Italia in Leipzig. He is among the foremost lyric Bel canto tenors of the young generation. Other performances include the roles of Belfiore in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera with the Juilliard Opera Center,Tonio in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment, Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata with The Tri-cities Opera (New York), Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with the Newton Symphony Orchestra, and concert appearances at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. In July 2011 he was heard in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher at the Oregon Bach Festival. For I VIRTUOSI AMBULANTI he participated in the German premiere of Donizetti’s Teresa e Gianfaldoni in Ingolstadt.
November 10, 2011 – December 17, 2011
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