Shakespeare Scandals
One World Symphony
Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor
One World Symphony Vocal Artists
Giuseppe Verdi: from Otello
Richard Strauss: Ophelia Lieder (1918)*
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Hector Berlioz: La mort d’Ophélie
Vincenzo Bellini: from I Capuleti e I Montecchi
*world premiere arrangement for voice and symphony by Sung Jin Hong
Otello, Verdi’s penultimate opera, exposes human nature’s willingness to feed on gossip, distrust, and scandal. Richard Strauss and Hector Berlioz paint the madness of despair that drove the fair maiden to her watery grave in Ophelia Lieder. Without words, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture captures the play’s spirit — the turbulence, romance and pathos. Young lovers are entangled in the turmoil of two rival political parties in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s telling of the ancient Italian tale which inspired Shakespeare.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Holy Apostles Church
Manhattan
Monday, January 28, 2013
Holy Apostles Church
Manhattan
