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Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Highlights)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Highlights)
One World Symphony celebrates the 250th birthday
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with an uplifting, thought-provoking
pairing of highlights from two masterpieces of the operatic
stage: Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito and Christoph
Willibald von Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Artistic
Director Sung Jin Hong has programmed these works in parallel
to explore the common themes of these beloved -- and surprisingly
similar -- operas.
Gluck's fusion of highly charged drama and
emotive and innovative musical themes heavily influenced
Mozart's own style. Both composers revered antiquity and
looked to the raw power of Greek and Roman myths for inspiration.
By pairing highlights of these groundbreaking operas in a
single program, Artistic Director Hong encourages audience
to discover them anew and to seek fresh and relevant meanings
in them.
"The glory that was Greece, the grandeur
that was Rome!"
-- Edgar Allan Poe
Artistic Director and Conductor: Sung
Jin Hong
Stage Director: Rod
Gomez
Orfeo: Jeffrey Mandelbaum, Ainsley
Ryan
Euridice: Amy Forburger, Kathryn Janssen
Amor: Tova Dodge, Nathalie Parker
Sesto: Elena
McEntire, Natalie Wilson
Vitellia: Celia Castro, Christina Rohm
Servillia: Laura Farmer, Lauren Lee
Annio: Alison Cheeseman, Christina Rosas
Tito: David Gordon, David Root
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