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PRESENTING
Parsifal and Amonasro in Aida (Theater
Basel); Parsi Rustomji in Satyagraha
(Metropolitan Opera); Orest in Elektra
(Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Opera Berlin,
Seattle Opera, San Sebastián Festival); the
four villains in Kosky’s new production
of Les contes d’Hoffmann (Den Norske
Opera); Allazim in Zaide (Festival
d’Aix-en-Provence, Wiener Festwochen,
Barbican Center, Mostly Mozart Festival);
Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (Angers
Nantes Opera, Opéra de Dijon); Creonte
in Medea (Opéra national de Lorraine);
Telramund in Lohengrin (Oviedo); Porgy in
Porgy and Bess (Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Boston Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony
Orchestra); and as Achilla in Giulio Cesare
and Colline in La bohème (San Diego
Opera). On the concert stage, he has
joined the Boston and Atlanta symphony
orchestras, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker,
Utah and Houston symphonies and the
Grand Park Music Festival.
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About the Concert
THE HEBRIDES OVERTURE
Felix Mendelssohn
Born in Hamburg, Germany, February 3, 1809;
died in, Leipzig, Germany, November 4, 1847
The overture known both as “Fingal’s
Cave” and “Hebrides” is a miniature
tone poem that memorializes the young
Felix Mendelssohn’s visit to the Hebrides
Islands off the northwest coast of Scotland
in August 1829— and specifically, a
turbulent sea journey to view the dramatic
basalt formation known as Fingal’s
Cave. Just 20 years old, Mendelssohn
had embarked earlier that year on a
grand tour of Europe that provided the
final educational and cultural polish for
wealthy young men of the period. After
conquering England with his musical
talent and fluent English, he ventured
north to Scotland in the company of his
friend Karl Klingemann.
The seas on the way to Fingal’s Cave
were rough and windswept. Mendelssohn
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