RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1
Matthew Troy, conductor
BRAHMS Nänie
Carole Ott, conductor
Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale
ORFF Carmina Burana
» Robert Moody, conductor
Christina Major, soprano
Daniel Stein, tenor
Troy Cook, baritone
Winston-Salem Symphony Chorale
Central Carolina Children’s Chorus
» Tickets: $13 – $60
To purchase tickets to our Saturday, May 12 performance of this program (part of the Kicked-Back Classics Series), click here.
Sunday, May 13, 2012 | 3:00 pm
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Stevens Center of the UNCSA ← where’s this?
Other Events
Music Lovers’ Luncheon
Maestro Moody, assistant conductor Matthew Troy, and chorale director Carole Ott discuss the works
on this week’s program, culminating in Orff’s gargantuan Carmina Burana
The Piedmont Club
200 W. Second Street
BB&T Financial Center, 19th Floor
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Friday, May 11, 2012
12:00pm
Reservations Required. Please call the Piedmont Club at 724-7077; cost is $15 for Piedmont Club members and $20 for non-members.
Guest Artist Biographies
Rising star, American Soprano Christina Major, is already making herself known for her sumptous and agile “Italianate sound” that brings back memories of the earlier greats. Recently she was hailed in Opera News as being a “sensitive actress” who “brought about the highest emotional stakes of the evening.”
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On the operatic stage, Daniel Stein has sung such roles as Ferrando in Così fan Tutte, Gerald in Lakmé, Alfredo in La Traviata, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Alan Seymour in the World Premiere of Libby Larsen’s Picnic. He has performed with regional companies including Opera Carolina, Opera North, [...]
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American baritone Troy Cook recently debuted the Hamburgische Staatsoper as Marcello in La bohème and the Royal Opera at Covent Garden as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. He has recently appeared in performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Winston-Salem Symphony.
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Program Notes
The original Carmina Burana comprises over two hundred poems in Latin, French, and German, an indication that the manuscript is an anthology representative of artistic activity from various locales. The authors of these poems were a curious assortment of wandering students and disaffected monks known as Goliards. The subjects of their poetry ranged from moral satire to lust, drinking, and gambling.
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