Janet Kessin, Paula Mlyn, Matt Schicker, Li-Ling Wang
JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA IS RESIDENT
ENSEMBLE OF
2003 FESTIVAL DEI DUE MONDI
TAKING PLACE IN SPOLETO, ITALY, JUNE 27 - JULY 20
Juilliard Orchestra is Conducted by James Conlon,
Riccardo Frizza, Manfred Honeck, Mark Stringer,
Jonathan Scheffer, and David Syrus in
Three-Week Residency (June 27 - July 13)
During Festival's Classical Music Schedule
Highlights include: Performances of Wagner's Lohengrin and
Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Trögodie;
Gian Carlo Menotti's 92nd Birthday Gala with
Mirella Freni, Daniella Barcellona, and Samuel Ramey;
Special All-American July 4th Concert of
Works by Copland, Barber, and Gershwin;
Spoleto Festival's First-Ever Jazz Performances by the
Juilliard Jazz Sextet and Victor Goines
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The Juilliard Orchestra will be resident instrumental ensemble for the
three-week classical music schedule of the 2003 Festival dei Due Mondi
taking place in Spoleto, Italy June 27 through July 20. Between opening
night on Friday,
June 27, when Riccardo Frizza conducts Jaromir Weinberger's Polka e Fuga
from the opera Svanda Dudàk; R. Strauss'
Don Juan; Barber's Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance; and Ravel's
Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2; to the ensemble's final performance on
Sunday, July 13, when James Conlon conducts two works by Shostakovich
- the Festive Overture, Op. 96 and the Execution of Stepan Razin (after
a poem of Yevtushenko) joined by Samuel Ramey - and the Coronation Scene
from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with soloists, basses Samuel Ramey and
Pavel Kudinov, and baritone Sergej Murzaev; the Juilliard Orchestra will
have appeared in fourteen instrumental, operatic, and gala performances.
Complete schedule posted at the end of this press release.
Festival dei Due Mondi's first-ever jazz concerts take place Mondays,
June 30 and July 7, when original works will be performed by a sextet
of Juilliard's first-ever jazz students along with program director
and clarinetist Victor Goines, making their first European appearance.
Inaugurated in 2001, Juilliard Jazz is the newest program of study to
be created at the almost 100-year-old conservatory.
The 110-member Juilliard Orchestra at Spoleto is comprised of musicians
from 25 states and 7 foreign countries, reflecting the cross-country
and international student body that each year studies and performs at
Juilliard's Lincoln Center campus in New York City. This is the fourth
time the Juilliard Orchestra has performed in Europe since its first
tour of Germany, Austria, and Italy in 1983. Since 1987, when the ensemble
became the first conservatory orchestra to tour the People's Republic
of China, as well as Japan and the then-separate Hong Kong, the Juilliard
Orchestra has traveled to Asia three times.
Further information about the Festival and its programs of dance,
theater, and cinema may be found on the Festival's Web site at www.spoletofestival.it.
Juilliard's press kit with articles about its history, background, and
alumni of its music, dance, and drama divisions, may be accessed at
www.juilliard.edu/press.
FESTIVAL DEI DUE MONDI OPENING CONCERT
TEATRO NUOVO
Friday, June 27, 8:30 PM
Riccardo Frizza, Conductor
Juilliard Orchestra
State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia
Valery Polyansky, Director
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Polka e Fuga, from the opera Svanda Dudàk Richard Strauss Don Juan Samuel Barber Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe, suite no. 2
OPERA
TEATRO NUOVO June 28, July 2, 5, 9, and 12, 7 PM LOHENGRIN Opera in three acts
Music and libretto Richard Wagner
Italian surtitles Casa Musicale Sonzogno
Mark Stringer, Conductor
Juilliard Orchestra Lohengrin, Thomas Rolf Truhitte Elsa von Brabant,Doina Dimitriu Ortrud,Victoria Livengood Friedrich von Telramund, Lucio Gallo e Johannes von
Duisburg Koenig Heinrich, Pavel Kudinov State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia
Valery Polyansky, Director
Director, Gian Carlo Menotti
Assistant Director, Nicolas Trees
ROCCA ALBORNOZIANA July 1, 3, 8, and 11, 9 PM
July 10, 8:30 PM EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE Opera in one act, op. 16
Music and libretto Alexander von Zemlinsky Semi-staged
David Syrus, Conductor
Juilliard Orchestra
Bianca, Annalene Persson Guido Baldi, Jonas Olofsson Simone, Robert Hyman
OPERA GALA to celebrate the birthday of Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti
PIAZZA DEL DUOMO
July 6, 8 PM
Manfred Honeck, Conductor
Mirella Freni, soprano
Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Ramey, bass
Juilliard Orchestra
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to download a high resolution image.SYMPHONIC CONCERTS ‘ALLA ROCCA’
ROCCA ALBORNOZIANA
July 4, 9 PM
Jonathan Scheffer, Conductor
Juilliard Orchestra
George Gershwin An American in Paris Samuel Barber Piano Concerto Aaron Copland The City (with projection of the movie-short)
CONCERT IN THE PIAZZA
PIAZZA DEL DUOMO
July 13, 7:15 PM
James Conlon, Conductor
Juilliard Orchestra
Samuel Ramey, bass
Sergej Murzaev, baritone
Pavel Kudinov, bass
State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia
Valery Polyansky, Director
Dmitri Shostakovich Festive Overture, op. 96 Modest Petrovich Mussorgski Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov
Dmitri Shostakovich The Execution of Stepan Razin
Poem for bass, chorus and orchestra, op. 119 by Evgeny Yevtushenko
JUILLIARD JAZZ
PIAZZA DEL DUOMO
June 30 and July 7, 10 PM
Original Compositions and Standards by the Juilliard Jazz Sextet:
Carl Maraghi, alto and baritone saxophone
Brandon Lee, trumpet; Mike Dease, trombone; Adam Birnbaum, piano
Matt Rybicki, bass; Ulysses Owens, drums director and clarinetist, Victor Goines
