Mexico-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Ravinia Music Director James Conlon to perform the complete Beethoven concertos over two days beginning with an 8 p.m. concert on Thursday, July 15, featuring concertos No. 1, 2 and 3. The July 15 concert continues Ravinia's celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence, with the festival teaming with its hometown city of Highland Park, which maintains a strong sister cities relationship with Puerto Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta will send a cultural delegation, including its mayor, to the festival for the July 15 concert. Chef Thierry Blouet, owner of the acclaimed Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta and Café des Artistes del Mar in Punta Mita, will be a guest chef in Ravinia's Park View restaurant on July 15 and 16.
Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.
Yesterday, June 2, Sting opened his Symphonicity Tour in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sting will be touring with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio for 38 performances in the United States and Canada before starting his own European tour. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the concert below.
Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his Carnegie Hall debut with three acoustic performances of arias by Handel, Bach, Schubert, Bellini, Verdi, and other composers on An Evening with Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fisch, Tuesday, September 8, Wednesday, September 9, and Friday, September 11, 2009, all at 8:00 p.m.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his Carnegie Hall debut with three acoustic performances of arias by Handel, Bach, Schubert, Bellini, Verdi, and other composers on An Evening with Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fisch, Tuesday, September 8, Wednesday, September 9, and Friday, September 11, 2009, all at 8:00 p.m.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his Carnegie Hall debut with three acoustic performances of arias by Handel, Bach, Schubert, Bellini, Verdi, and other composers on An Evening with Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fisch, Tuesday, September 8, Wednesday, September 9, and Friday, September 11, 2009, all at 8:00 p.m.
Tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his Carnegie Hall debut with three acoustic performances of arias by Handel, Bach, Schubert, Bellini, Verdi, and other composers on An Evening with Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fisch, Tuesday, September 8, Wednesday, September 9, and Friday, September 11, 2009, all at 8:00 p.m.
An Evening with Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Asher Fisch, will take place at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday, September 8, Wednesday, September 9, and Friday, September 11, 2009, all at 8:00 p.m. The three acoustic performances of classical repertoire by the Italian tenor - who is making his Carnegie Hall debut -will feature opera arias as well as instrumental works performed by the Orchestra. The concerts will be presented by Princeton Entertainment and the New York Philharmonic.
