SEFoS’ Fifth Annual Collaboration with Arts & Letters Live

featuring:
Suzanne Ramo, soprano
Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano
Scott Scully, tenor
Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone
David Shimoni, piano

Saturday, June 14, 2008; 8:00pm
Horchow Auditorium
Dallas, Texas

A collaborative, semi-staged, concert performance with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra

“The Tender Land is in every respect a major statement by Copland and an essential American opera,” states American Music magazine. “It presents a tale resonant with meaning and emotion for everyone who cares deeply about America’s history and culture. The Tender Land addresses issues of continuity and discontinuity that explain much about the American character…”

featuring:
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Jessie Hinkle, mezzo-soprano
Jeffrey Pícon, tenor
Michael Mayes, baritone
Matthew Burns, bass-baritone
Scott Terrell, conductor

Friday April 25, 2008; 7:00pm
Sottile Theatre
Charleston, South Carolina

A collaborative, semi-staged, concert performance with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra

Madame Butterfly is without question Giacomo Puccini’s most famous operatic heroine. Her story, set in Japan around 1900, is a tragic one of innocence betrayed - a story that lives on through an immortal musical score.

featuring:
Shana Blake Hill, soprano
Adam Diegel, tenor
Jason Ferrante, tenor
Dan Allcott, conductor

Sunday April 20, 2008; 3:00pm
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Cookeville, Tennessee

SEFoS at the Barns of Wolf Trap
The Discovery Series

Join us at Wolf Trap for an evening of songs, poems, and riffs on some of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters. Berlioz and the Beatles spotlight Ophelia in Hamlet; Clara Schumann, Kurt Weill, and Stephen Sondheim illuminate characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The story of the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet is told through lyrics by Francesco Cavalli and Roger Quilter, and befuddled Beatrice and Benedict become “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered!” So don’t protest too much; get thee to the Barns for a classic evening of demythified Elizabethan splendor!

featuring:
Angela Gilbert, soprano
Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano
Ross Hauck, tenor
Ryan Taylor, baritone
Kim Pensinger Witman, pianist

Friday, March 28, 2008; 8:00pm
The Barns of Wolf Trap
1645 Trap Road
Vienna, Virginia