released a recording of Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs, featuring 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. Internationally in recent seasons O’Connor made her Proms Festival debut with Jirí Belohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, and an Edinburgh International Festival debut with James Conlon and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in John Adams’ El Niño. She joined Edo de Waart for Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, toured with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and sang Mendelssohn’s Elias with Ingo Metzmacher and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. O’Connor has received unanimous international critical acclaim for her numerous performances as Federico García Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. O’Connor created the role for the world premiere at Tanglewood under the baton of Robert Spano and subsequently has joined Miguel Harth-Bedoya for performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall. She reprised her “musically seductive, palpably charismatic” portrayal of Lorca (Washington Post) in the world premiere of the revised edition of Ainadamar at the Santa Fe Opera in a new staging by Peter Sellars during the 2005 season, which also was presented at Lincoln Center.
Vale Rideout
Vale Rideout, Tenor, a native of Colorado has sung with Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Nashville Opera and companies rideout across the US. Recently, he reprised his performance as the Male Chorus in Rape of Lucretia at Cal Performances in Berkeley with Maestro Lorin Maazel conducting, sang Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw at Central City Opera, sang Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles with Hawaii Opera Theater and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Tulsa Opera. He sang Peter Quint in The Turn of the 26
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Screw with Boston Lyric Opera, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Sam in Susannah with Central City Opera, Alfred in Die Fledermaus with San Francisco Opera and Atis in The Fortunes of King Croesus with Minnesota Opera. His concert engagements have taken him from The New York Philharmonic performing with Maestro Lorin Maazel in Britten’s War Requiem to the Dallas Symphony where he sang the World Premiere of August 4, 1964 by Steven Stucky under Maestro Jaap Van Zweden which was recently released in a live recording. Vale sang with the Seattle Symphony in Handel’s Messiah and appeared with the Collegiate Chorale in an opera inspired program at Carnegie Hall. He appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra of St Lukes, Academy of St Marin in the Fields, Pacific, Virginia, Nashville and Grand Rapids Symphonies. He recently sang the role of Tancredi in John Musto’s The Inspector at Wolf Trap Opera which was recently released as a live recording. With Florentine Opera, he sang the role of Frank in Robert Aldridge’s Grammy-winning (2012) Elmer Gantry and the role of Igneo in Don Davis’ Rio de Sangre, both of which have recently been released as live recordings. Vale can also be heard on a live recording of Carmina Burana with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Jason Grant
This and future seasons have bassbaritone Jason Grant singing Pater Profundis in Mahler Symphony No. 8 in a return to the Virginia Symphony grant at the Virginia Arts Festival, and the Beethoven Symphony No. 9 for debuts with the Detroit and Nashville symphony orchestras. Recent highlights include performances with the New York Philharmonic of Mahler Symphony No. 8 for Lorin Maazel’s final concerts as music director, released on iTunes, following concert performances of Tosca led by Maestro Maazel and a debut in the Bach St. Matthew Passion led by Kurt Masur. A variety of concert engagements include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at the Mostly Mozart Festival; Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Milwaukee Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem with the Virginia Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic,
among others. He has sung Don Fernando in concert performances of Fidelio with the Saint Louis Symphony; Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol with the Atlanta Symphony in Atlanta and at Carnegie Hall; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the Alabama Symphony. Grant’s many performances during seven seasons with the New York City Opera include Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller’s production of The Mikado, Dulcamara in Miller’s new production of L’elisir d’amore, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims, among others. Operatic highlights include Angelotti in Tosca and Monterone in Rigoletto with the Seattle Opera; Leporello in Don Giovanni and the Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann with the Dallas Opera; and multiple appearances with the Opera Orchestra of New York, including Duglas in Rossini’s La donna del lago, Attila, La battaglia di Legnano, all at Carnegie Hall. An alumnus of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, the Merola Program, and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Mr. Grant is a graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center and the Eastman School of Music. Presented by
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