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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