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OPERA IN CONCERT’S 2007-2008 SEASON
(click on the title
of each opera for more information)
by Gaetano
Donizetti
(in Italian)
Tragedia lirica in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani, after Ippolito Pindemonte’s
translation (1816) of Marie-Joseph de Chenier’s
play Henri VIII (1791)
and Alessandro Pepoli’s play Anna Bolena
(1788)
Composed 1830
PREMIERE: 26
December 1830, Teatro Carcano,
Milan
Sunday, October
28, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
by Carl Maria von Weber &
Gustav Mahler
(in German)
Opera in three
acts
Libretto by
Theodore Hell after the story Der Brautkampf by
Carl Seidel (1819)
Begun 1820,
abandoned 1824, completed by Gustav Mahler, 1888, with new text by Carl von
Weber
PREMIERE: 20
January 1888, Neues Stadttheater,
Leipzig
Sunday, December
2, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
by George Frideric Handel
(in Italian)
Opera in three
acts
Libretto by Nicola
Francesco Haym, after Agostino
Piovene’s Il Tamlerlano
(1711) and Il Bajazet (1719) both set by Gasparini;
based on the play
by Jacques Pradon, Tamerlan,
ou La morte de Bajazet (1675)
Draft composition
score dated 3-23 July 1724
PREMIERE: 31
October 1724, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, London
Sunday, February
3, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.
by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
(in Russian)
Opera (spring
fairy-tale) in 4 acts with a prologue
Libretto by the
composer, after the play by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (1873)
in turn based on a folk-tale
Composed 1880-81
PREMIERE: 10
February 1882, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Sunday, April 6,
2008 at 2:30 p.m.
All performances
are at the Jane Mallett Theatre
St. Lawrence
Centre for the Arts
27 Front Street
East, Toronto, ON M5E 1B4
Season
Subscriptions and Single Tickets are available through the
St. Lawrence Centre for the
Arts Box Office
416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754
To receive a
brochure, please contact Opera in Concert’s Administration Office:
947 Queen Street
East, Second Floor
Toronto, ON M4M 1J9
416-922-2147
Back again for the 24th year:
Join your host Iain Scott
for a 45 minute pre-performance presentation
about the opera and its composer
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