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CONTENTS

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Welcome

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Board of Trustees

DVOŘÁK’S “NEW WORLD” SYMPHONY BARBER’S VIOLIN CONCERTO SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 2023 / 7:30 PM

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Season Sponsors

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SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023 / 7:30 PM

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SEPTEMBER 22 / 10:00 AM / FINISHING TOUCHES

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Acknowledgments

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Administration

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RACHMANINOFF’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 & LISZT WITH PIANIST JOYCE YANG OCTOBER 20, 2023 / 7:30 PM OCTOBER 21, 2023 / 5:30 PM

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WELCOME

On behalf of the board, musicians, and staff of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Abravanel Hall and tonight’s concert.

Throughout this past summer USUO performed great live music in a variety of locations that celebrate Utah’s natural beauty—at USUO’s official summer home of the Deer Valley® Music Festival, in outdoor venues along the Wasatch front, and throughout the state during our Music Elevated: Forever Mighty® State Tour. As the season changes and a new school-year begins, we are happy to return to our regular indoor venues, and to perform in schools throughout the state.

STEVEN BROSVIK President & CEO

Did you know that, in addition to the more than 100 subscription concerts and operas performed at USUO home venues, last year our artists presented more than 350 education performances designed specifically for students in schools and venues throughout the state?

The people of our great state have long recognized the power of the arts to inspire the human spirit and to motivate the betterment of mankind. USUO reflects this value through a deep commitment to music education and strives to meaningfully impact every community in the state through our education and community engagement programs.

Here in Abravanel Hall, we joyfully begin a new season of Masterworks oncerts with four programs, each including audience-favorite works led by world-class guest conductors and featuring extraordinary soloists (beginning with Utah’s home-grown violin star Aubree Oliverson) with the exceptional musicians of our orchestra. Whether you’re joining us for our annual Celebración Sinfónica, for one of our cinematic films in concert, or for one of the incomparable Masterworks concerts, we guarantee you will leave the concert hall enriched through the shared experience of great live music!

Sincerely,

BRIAN GREEFF Board of Trustees Chairman

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ELECTED BOARD Brian Greeff* Chair Annette W. Jarvis* Vice Chair and Secretary Joanne F. Shiebler* Vice Chair Steven Brosvik* President & CEO Austin Bankhead Dr. Stewart E. Barlow Judith M. Billings George Cardon-Bystry Gary L. Crocker John D’Arcy* David L. Dee* Barry L. Eden*

Jason Englund Senator Luz Escamilla Theresa A. Foxley Brandon Fugal Dr. Julie Aiken Hansen Daniel Hemmert* Dennis H. Hranitzky Stephen Tanner Irish Thomas N. Jacobson Abigail E. Magrane Brad W. Merrill Judy Moreton Dr. Dinesh C. Patel Frank R. Pignanelli Gary B. Porter Shari H. Quinney Miguel R. Rovira Stan Sorensen Dr. Shane D. Stowell

Naoma Tate Thomas Thatcher W. James Tozer David Utrilla Kelly Ward Don Willie Kim R. Wilson Thomas Wright* Henry C. Wurts*

Herbert C. Livsey, Esq. Thomas M. Love* David T. Mortensen Scott S. Parker David A. Petersen

Patricia A. Richards* Harris Simmons David B. Winder

Kristen Fletcher Richard G. Horne Ronald W. Jibson

E. Jeffery Smith

Lisa Eccles Spencer F. Eccles Dr. Anthony W. Middleton, Jr. Edward Moreton Marilyn H. Neilson

Stanley B. Parrish Marcia Price Jeffrey W. Shields, Esq. Diana Ellis Smith

MUSICIAN REPRESENTATIVES Edward Merritt* Hugh Palmer* EX-OFFICIO Jean Vaniman Onstage Ogden

LIFETIME BOARD William C. Bailey Kem C. Gardner* Jon Huntsman, Jr. G. Frank Joklik Clark D. Jones

TRUSTEES EMERITI Carolyn Abravanel Dr. J. Richard Baringer Howard S. Clark

HONORARY BOARD Jesselie B. Anderson Kathryn Carter R. Don Cash Raymond J. Dardano Geralyn Dreyfous

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Matthew Straw Assistant Conductor VIOLIN* Madeline Adkins Concertmaster The Jon M. & Karen Huntsman Chair, in honor of Wendell J. & Belva B. Ashton Kathryn Eberle Associate Concertmaster The Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Chair

VIOLA* Brant Bayless Principal The Sue & Walker Wallace Chair

OBOE Zachary Hammond Principal The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair

Yuan Qi Associate Principal

James Hall Associate Principal

Julie Edwards Joel Gibbs Carl Johansen Scott Lewis John Posadas Whittney Sjogren Leslie Richards~

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Claude Halter Principal Second

CELLO* Matthew Johnson Acting Principal The J. Ryan Selberg Memorial Chair

Wen Yuan Gu Associate Principal Second

Andrew Larson Acting Associate Principal

Erin Svoboda-Scott Associate Principal

Evgenia Zharzhavskaya Assistant Principal Second

John Eckstein Walter Haman Anne Lee Louis-Philippe Robillard Kevin Shumway Hannah Thomas-Hollands~ Pegsoon Whang

Lee Livengood# Chris Bosco~

Karen Wyatt 2nd Assistant Principal Second Erin David Joseph Evans Lun Jiang Rebekah Johnson•• Tina Johnson~ Alison Kim Amanda Kofoed~ Jennifer Kozbial Posadas~ Veronica Kulig David Langr Hannah Linz Yuki MacQueen Alexander Martin Rebecca Moench Hugh Palmer David Porter Lynn Maxine Rosen Barbara Ann Scowcroft Ju Hyung Shin Bonnie Terry Julie Wunderle

BASS* David Yavornitzky Principal Corbin Johnston Associate Principal James Allyn Andrew Keller Edward Merritt James Stroup~ Jens Tenbroek Thomas Zera HARP Louise Vickerman Principal FLUTE Mercedes Smith Principal The Val A. Browning Chair Lisa Byrnes Associate Principal Caitlyn Valovick Moore

Jeff Luke Associate Principal Peter Margulies Paul Torrisi TROMBONE Sam Elliot Acting Principal

ENGLISH HORN Lissa Stolz CLARINET Tad Calcara Principal The Norman C. & Barbara Lindquist Tanner Chair, in memory of Jean Lindquist Pell

Laura Ha 2nd Associate Concertmaster

TRUMPET Travis Peterson Principal

BASS CLARINET Lee Livengood# Chris Bosco~ E-FLAT CLARINET Erin Svoboda-Scott BASSOON Lori Wike Principal The Edward & Barbara Moreton Chair Leon Chodos Associate Principal Jennifer Rhodes CONTRABASSOON Leon Chodos HORN Jessica Danz Principal Edmund Rollett Associate Principal Jonathan Chiou Julia Pilant~ Stephen Proser

Andrew Zaharis~ Acting Second Trombone BASS TROMBONE Graeme Mutchler TUBA Alexander Purdy Principal TIMPANI George Brown Principal Eric Hopkins Associate Principal PERCUSSION Keith Carrick Principal Eric Hopkins Michael Pape KEYBOARD Jason Hardink Principal LIBRARIANS Clovis Lark Principal Claudia Restrepo ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Walt Zeschin Director of Orchestra Personnel Hannah Thomas-Hollands Orchestra Personnel Manager

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

LUDOVIC MORLOT Conductor

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traditional concert programming, winning several Grammys. He has been Associate Artist of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra since 2019. He was Artistic Director and a founding member of the National Youth Orchestra of China 2017–2021, conducting their inaugural concerts at Carnegie Hall and in China in 2017, and touring with them to Europe in 2019. From 2012–2014 he was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie, conducting new productions in Brussels and at the Aix Easter Festival— including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenůfa and Pelléas et Mélisande.

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In demand as a concerto soloist, recent and forthcoming highlights for Aubree Oliverson include performances with the S.San Diego, Utah, Puerto Rico, Pacific, Columbus, Des Moines, New Haven, and Pasadena Symphonies, the Roma Tre Orchestra, and the Brno Philharmonic, in works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Haydn, “SaintSaëns, Dvorak and Barber. In 2021, she joined the Louisiana Philharmonic for a

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two-week residency during which she performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto as well as chamber music.

In recital, having made her Carnegie Hall Weill Hall recital debut at age twelve, she has gone to perform to sold out audiences at the Grand Teton Music Festival, SOKA Performing Arts Centre, and the SCERA Centre for the Performing Arts, and has upcoming recitals in Rome, Los Angeles, and in Ridgecrest, California as part of Midori’s Partners in Performance Recital Series. She has featured on NPR’s From The Top numerous times.

ARTISTS’ PROFILES

AUBREE OLIVERSON

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HISTORY OF THE MUSIC

By Jeff Counts

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 (“From the New World”) Duration: 40 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) – In the last years of the 1890s, Dvořák again began to look beyond Prague and entertain lucrative offers from abroad. There were trips to Moscow and St. Petersburg on the invitation of Tchaikovsky and a visit to England in 1890 for concerts and honorary degrees. One

Violin Concerto, op. 14 Duration: 25 minutes in three movements.

THE COMPOSER – SAMUEL BARBER (1910–1981) – Barber is more beloved today than he was during his compositional heyday in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. It happens to many composers who are either ahead of or behind their time.

Barber won two Pulitzer Prizes and earned commissions from prestigious soloists

Boléro Duration: 13 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) – Ravel did quite a bit of touring in 1920s and 1930s. The successes he enjoyed on the road made a very good impression at home even though, as always, he maintained a cool indifference to the evolving critical opinion of his countrymen. He visited Britain, two countries in Scandinavia, Spain, Italy and

year later, Dvořák was offered a position at the National Conservatory of Music in New York. America was country already greatly enamored of his music and the Conservatory leaders were intensely interested in his nationalistic voice as an artist. In a country without its own established musical identity, his example could have a powerful effect. Dvořák was fully aware of this hope and took the desires of his hosts quite seriously.

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and orchestras, but his output was judged by many as hopelessly antique and out of touch. His lyrical, neo-Romantic voice stood at odds with the strong currents of contemporary European experimentalism at work on the American scene at the time. Ironically, many of the scores Barber produced during this period have had a longer life than any of the more adventurous works they were judged against.

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Austria. One of his most productive trips was a four-month swing through America and Canada in 1928. In addition to visiting Niagara Falls, peering into the Grand Canyon and meeting Douglas Fairbanks (which whom he reportedly conversed in French), Ravel’s itinerary included several highly visible interviews and lecture appearances where he was particularly keen to discuss his fascination with American jazz and the blues.

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“EMPEROR” PIANO CONCERTO SEPTEMBER 22 & 23, 2023 / 7:30 PM SEPTEMBER 22 / 10:00 AM / FINISHING TOUCHES Maurice Abravanel Hall

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

EDUARDO STRAUSSER Conductor

The charismatic and energetic Brazilian conductor, Eduardo Strausser has gained a reputation for his intelligent programming and physical style on the podium. Eduardo opens the 2023–24 season with a new production of Tosca for Nothern Ireland Opera.

Additional plans for the 2023-24 season include returns to Kansas City Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Bamberger Symphoniker, as well as debuts with Utah Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre de Montpellier, Argovia Philhramonic.

MARIE-ANGE NGUCI Piano

Among the highlights of the two last season seasons, Marie-Ange Nguci was invited by such major orchestras as Orchestre de Paris, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall, Tonkünstler Orchestra for her Musikverein debut, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen on tour, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, as well as Lille, Bordeaux and Pau National Orchestras.

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Highlights of 2022–23 included returns to Antwerp Symphony, Fundacion Musical Simon Bolivar, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Messiah and debuts with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Norrlandsoperan, the Halle Orchestra, and North Carolina Symphony.

Eduardo has worked with a number of top soloists, including Paul Lewis, Isabelle Faust, Augustin Hadelich, Richard Galliano, Steven Osborne, Barnabas Kelemen and Sergei Krylov among others. A multi-linguist, Eduardo speaks eight languages fluently including; German, Italian, French, Spanish and Hebrew.

Her extensive repertoire ranges from baroque, classical, romantic to contemporary. Passionate about the music of our time, she has worked closely with composers such as Thierry Escaich, Bruno Mantovani, Graciane Finzi, Pascal Zavaro and Karol Beffa in preparing her interpretations of their works.

Nguci was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 in Nicholas Angelich’s class. She plays organ and cello, and spent a year studying conducting at Vienna’s Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst.

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Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527 Duration: 7 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) – Mozart met Lorenzo Da Ponte in late 1785.

Da Ponte was a Venetian librettist who had already worked twice with Antonio Salieri and would go on to produce two dozen opera texts for various composers after Mozart died in 1791. The Salieri connection made Mozart extra anxious to

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73 (“Emperor”) Duration: 38 minutes in three movements.

THE COMPOSER – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) – Vienna was under French bombardment and eventual occupation during the spring and summer of 1809. Beethoven, ironically, had turned down a position with Napoleon’s brother Jérôme a year earlier, but the Austrian royal family convinced him to stay in the capital Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 Duration: 46 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – SERGE PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) – Prokofiev spent the war years in various safe havens that allowed him to remain productive as an artist but could not redeem his standing as a husband and father. In fact, when he evacuated from Moscow in 1941 Lina and the children, unwilling to ignore his infidelity with the poet Mira Mendelson,

collaborate with Da Ponte, if only to keep pace with a competitor, but Da Ponte’s legacy depended more on the match than Mozart’s. The librettist was close friends with none other than Giacomo Casanova (yes, that one) and had stood trial in 1779 for his own loose morals. Luckily, Da Ponte’s banishment from Venice led him to Vienna, where he eventually met Mozart and wrote the three libretti that we best remember him for today.

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by offering a generous annual salary. Sadly, the comfort this allowance provided was short-lived. With French boots on the march, the Emperor’s court fled Vienna and took their beneficence with them.

It was a decidedly unhappy time for the composer. The city was emptied of friends and opportunities for music-making, and the complete lack of contact he had with the rest of Europe caused his productivity to drop significantly.

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stayed behind. Prokofiev spent the rest of the early 40s completing the first iteration of his magnum opus War and Peace while also attempting to master the delicate dance of Soviet approval. He returned home in 1944 with a full head of patriotic steam but suffered a fainting spell in January of 1945 that resulted in a serious concussion. He continued to work, even when he fell again (figuratively) from Party favor in 1948, but he was never the same.

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A New Opera By: William Call

a girl from New York The year is 1886.

Ruth Bowen, a young widow from New York City, makes her way with her mother-in-law Naomi to Utah where she encounters Benjamin Bowen, Naomi’s brother-inlaw and prominent Salt Lake City businessman/ polygamist. Ruth’s eastern fashions and New York City charm create a sensation, but before Benjamin is able to fulfill his “next-of-kin obligation,” he is forced to flee the city to avoid arrest for unlawful cohabitation.

Later Benjamin and Ruth attempt a rendezvous, which leads to Benjamin’s arrest and extended prison term. Still in prison Benjamin proposes marriage, but the Manifesto of 1890 stands in the way. Ruth takes a train home to New York City.

Benjamin’s attempts to pursue her are circumvented.

Fate has seemingly made their separation permanent, but then in an unexpected turn of events…

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RUNE BERGMANN Conductor

Norwegian conductor Rune Bergmann is currently Music Director of Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of Poland’s Szczecin Philharmonic, and Chief Conductor of Switzerland’s Argovia Philharmonic, positions he has held since the 2017/18, 2016/17, and 2020/21 seasons, respectively.

Guest engagements in the 2023/24 season bring Bergmann once again to the podiums of the Baltimore, Colorado and

JOYCE YANG Piano

Born in 1986 in Seoul, South Korea, Joyce Yang received her first piano lesson from her aunt at the age of four. She quickly took to the instrument, which she received as a birthday present. Over the next few years, Yang won several national piano competitions in her native country. By the age of ten, she had entered the School of Music at the Korea National University of

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Utah Symphony orchestras, and will see him debut with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Sarasota Orchestra.

Earlier in his career, Rune Bergmann served as First Kapellmeister and deputy-Music Director of the Theater Augsburg, where he led performances of numerous operas, including such titles as La Traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, and Die Fledermaus.

He has also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kaunas City Symphony, and has been Artistic Director of Norway’s innovative Fjord Cadenza Festival since its inception in 2010.

Arts, and went on to make a number of concerto and recital appearances in Seoul and Daejeon. In 1997, Yang moved to the United States to begin studies at the pre-college division of the Juilliard School with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. After winning the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Student Competition, she performed Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with that orchestra at just twelve years old. She graduated from Juilliard with special honor as the recipient of the school’s 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize.

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Danse macabre Duration: 8 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – CAMILLE SAINTSAËNS (1835-1921) – Saint-Saëns left France briefly in March of 1871 to escape the violence of the Paris Commune but returned home just two months later to find the city full of nationalist zeal. While engaging deeply with the Parisian arts intelligentsia over the next couple of years, Saint-Saëns did something many who

Totentanz Duration: 16 minutes in one movement.

THE COMPOSER – FRANZ LISZT (18111886) – In the early 1860s, the crushing disappointments of Liszt’s personal life forced him to seriously consider the solace and rigor of monastic life. He had lost a son and a daughter (both in their 20s) and had his proposed marriage to Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27 Duration: 60 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943) – Russia was a place of considerable social and political unrest in the years immediately following 1905. Rachmaninoff found it difficult to work during his country’s nascent attempt at revolution and sought professional refuge first in Pisa, Italy and later in Dresden. But

knew him considered unthinkable – he got married. It was not a happy union and both children born to Marie Truffot died young (one fell from a window, and the other contracted pneumonia). But as is so often the case in music history, great work comes from great pain. Saint-Saëns produced two of his most enduring scores during the courtship and short matrimony with Marie, the opera Samson et Delila and the orchestral tone poem Danse macabre.

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thwarted by the Pope and the Tsar. It was all too much for a man of passion in his early 50s, so he sought dispensation (yes, from the very same Pope, who said yes in this case) to give himself fully over to his God. Though he never actually became a priest, he did officially enter the clergy’s lower orders on April 25, 1865, and was known as “Abbot” Liszt for the rest of his days.

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it wasn’t only civil strife he was running from. Rachmaninoff was under professional pressure as well, thanks in part to the conducting position he held with the Bolshoi Opera since 1904 and two new stage works he composed for the company. He needed a break from all of it, and in Dresden he found enough peace and quiet to complete his 2nd Symphony. Given his previous experience with the genre, this was no mean feat.

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NOVEMBER 3 & 4, 2023 / 7:30 PM Maurice Abravanel Hall

DAVID ROBERTSON, conductor SHARON BJORNDAL LAVERY, chorus director CELENA SHAFER, soprano DEBORAH NANSTEEL, mezzo CHAD SHELTON, tenor ZACHARY NELSON, baritone UTAH SYMPHONY CHORUS

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

DAVID ROBERTSON Conductor

David Robertson— conductor, artist, composer, thinker, American musical visionary—occupies the most prominent podiums in opera, orchestral, and new music. He is a champion of contemporary composers, and an ingenious and adventurous programmer. Robertson has served in numerous artistic leadership positions, such as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a transformative 13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with the Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony

CELENA SHAFER Soprano

After two summers as an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera, the career of soprano Celena Shafer was launched to critical raves as Ismene in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto. Since that breakthrough debut, Shafer has garnered acclaim for her silvery voice, fearlessly committed acting and phenomenal technique.

Since first appearing with the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera as a high school

DEBORAH NANSTEEL Mezzo

“A formidable display of vocal power and dramatic assurance,” mezzo-soprano Deborah Nansteel made her début with The Metropolitan Opera as Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, her début with the Lyric 32

Orchestra, and, as protégé of Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble InterContemporain.

In 2023, he made his first return to Sydney, and will begin a three-year tenure as the inaugural Creative Partner of the Utah Symphony and Opera. Since his 1996 Metropolitan Opera debut, Robertson has conducted a breathtaking range of Met projects, including the 2019–20 season opening premiere production of Porgy and Bess, for which he shared a Grammy Award, Best Opera Recording, in March 2021. In 2022, he conducted the Met Opera revival of the production, in addition to making his Rome Opera debut conducting Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová.

student, Shafer has performed operatic roles there including The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Musetta in La Boheme, Constanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gilda in Rigoletto, Norina in Don Pasquale, and Lisette in La Rondine.

She was the 2014–15 season Artistin-Residence and recently has sung a New Year’s Eve Gala, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Mahler Symphonies Nos. 2, 4, and 8, and the Mighty Five tour through Utah’s state parks, all led by Thierry Fischer.

Opera of Chicago as Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette, her Carnegie Hall début in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and her New York Philharmonic début alongside Eric Owens in In Their Footsteps: Great African American Singers and Their Legacy.

Nansteel will be seen with the Utah Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

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Tenor

Chad Shelton is in demand as a concert soloist and has joined the Minnesota Orchestra for Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Vanished, as well as the title role in concert performances of Candide. He has sung Siegel’s Kaddish with the Houston Symphony; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Utah Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Colorado Music Festival and Mozart’s Requiem with

ZACHARY NELSON Baritone

The 2023-2024 season features a mix of role debuts and favorites for Zachary Nelson. During the summer of 2024 he debuts the role of Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier with Santa Fe Opera. Earlier in the season he makes several other

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the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Verdi’s Requiem with the Brussels Philharmonic; Handel’s Messiah with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony; and a gala concert of opera favorites with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.

He is the recipient of a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant and the Richard F. Gold Career Grand from the Shoshana Foundation. He holds a Master of Music degree and Artist diploma from the Yale University School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University.

ARTISTS’ PROFILES

CHAD SHELTON

returns: to Florentine Opera as Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore; Atlanta Opera as Marcello in La bohème, and Arizona Opera as Leporello in Don Giovanni. In concert he joins David Robertson and the Utah Symphony for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Act 3 of Berg’s Wozzeck, and appears with the Sag Harbor Song Festival in recital.

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HISTORY OF THE MUSIC

By Jeff Counts

Christus factus est Duration: 6 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – ANTON BRUCKNER (1824-1896) – Bruckner’s devout Catholic faith is typically mentioned first among the attributes that made him the musician and person he was. He was surrounded by music and religion from the start in his provincial town, but too shy and unconfident to be a child prodigy. His father was an organist at the local church

Wozzeck: Act III Duration: 23 minutes in five scenes.

THE COMPOSER – ALBAN BERG (18851935) – Like so many men of fighting age during the Great War, Berg did his part, even if his eternally frail constitution prevented him from ever experiencing combat. While he worked in the War Ministry of the Austro-Hungarian Army, Berg tried to maintain momentum on the projects he put on hold during the

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 (“Choral”) Duration: 65 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) – When nearing the completion of what was to be his final symphony, the 9th, Beethoven initially considered a premiere location outside of Vienna. At the time, he harbored significant displeasure with the Austrian capital’s lack of support for serious music in general, and

where his mother was a choir member, but little Anton didn’t begin to pursue music seriously until he was 11 (quite late by famous composer standards).

Bruckner’s ensuing five years as a choirboy at St. Florian were formative, spiritually and compositionally, but the latter effect would not become obvious until much later, after he had spent many further years in service to his God as an organist. Just like dad.

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global conflict. He had made a pretty loud splash in 1913 with performances of two of the Five Orchestral Songs, and the ensuing riot involving both performers and listeners (1913 was big year for concert hall fisticuffs, just ask Stravinsky) did nothing to tamp his experimental instincts.

Berg had a few more controversial things to say through music, with the most profound of these statements waiting patiently on the tip of his pen.

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his music in particular. No longer interested in his concerti, sonatas or symphonies, Beethoven believed, Viennese audiences were instead rushing to hear Rossini operas and other “light” populist fare. But he was wrong. When he made contact with promoters in Berlin regarding the 9th, word quickly spread in Vienna and his many admirers there presented him with letter of support that included a successful plea on behalf of the city and its audiences.

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