Wagner Without Words
March 7 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
LOCATION
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
Parking is available around the theatre including the East End Garage, surface lots, and street parking. *East End Garage parking notes: Parking is $7 and CASH ONLY. Please allow for extra time as the Scio Street entrances are the only ones open to traffic and staffed with parking attendants. *Surface lot parking notes: The parking lot at the corner of Main and Gibbs is a pay-to-park with a parking machine. Please allow for extra time to pay at the machine if you plan on parking there.
ARTISTS
Andreas Delfs
conductor
Christine Goerke
soprano
Pre-concert talk with Maestro Delfs and Julia Figueras will start 1 hour before the show.
PROGRAM
WAGNER
Lohengrin Prelude to Act III
WAGNER
“Dich teure Halle” from Tannhauser
PUCCINI
“In questa reggia” from Turandot
BARBER
“Andromache’s Farewell”
WAGNER
Ring without Words (arr. Maazel)
DESCRIPTION
Wagner’s thrilling music resounds in Kodak Hall! Music Director Andreas Delfs leads favorite selections from “The Ring of the Nibelung,” as arranged into a symphonic suite by Lorin Maazel. Metropolitan Opera star Christine Goerke sings concert arias by Puccini, Barber, and others.
RPO HISTORY
This will be Christine Goerke’s debut singing with the RPO.
Your RPO has performed Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin 12 times in a Philharmonics Series or Sunday Matinee concert from 1923 to 2015.
- Vladimir Shavitch conducted the piece on December 12, 1923.
- Ward Stare last conducted this piece for the RPO November 18-21, 2015.
Your RPO has performed Wagner’s “Dich teure Halle” (Elizabeth’s Greeting) from Tannhauser specifically 4 times in a Philharmonics Series or Sunday Matinee from 1927 to 2007 and featured Ethel Codd Luening (1927) and Mary Elizabeth Williams (2007).
Your RPO has never performed Puccini’s “In questa reggia” from Turandot, nor Barber’s Andromache’s Farewell.
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