With The Florida
Orchestra and The Master Chorale of Tampa
Bay
Hailed as “Verdi’s
greatest opera” and “one of the most ambitious and lavish sacred
works in the entire orchestral repertoire,” Music Director Stefan
Sanderling and The Florida Orchestra (TFO) are joined by The Master Chorale of
Tampa Bay to perform Verdi’s Requiem.
The featured vocal soloists include soprano Indra Thomas, mezzo-soprano Gigi
Mitchell-Velasco, tenor Jeffrey Springer and bass baritone Dean Elzinga.
With a
combined force of more than 250 voices and orchestra musicians, this Progress Energy
Masterworks concert is two nights only: Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. at the Progress Energy
Center for the Arts – Mahaffey
Theater in St. Petersburg, and Sunday, March 8, at
7:30 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater.
And to learn more about the music and composer Giuseppe Verdi, concertgoers are
invited to attend a pre-concert conversation in the hall one hour before
curtain time. Tickets start at $19 for the general public and are only
$10 for students and educators: 727.892.3337 or 1.800.662.7286, Monday –
Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or online
at www.floridaorchestra.org.
The Master Chorale of Tampa
Bay
Under Music
and Artistic Director Richard Zielinski, the 180-voice Master Chorale of Tampa Bay
has performed and premiered many symphonic choral works under the direction of
Jahja Ling, Robert Shaw, John Nelson, Julius Rudel, Founding Music Director
Emeritus Robert Summer and Jo-Michael Schiebe. The chorale has also
performed abroad at London’s Westminster
Cathedral and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, among other locales.
Designated in 1989 as the principal chorus of TFO, some of its most recent
performances with the orchestra include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9,
Dvorak’s Requiem,
Schubert’s Mass No. 6, Faure’s Requiem
and Orff’s Carmina Burana.
To close the 2008/2009 Masterworks series, the Master Chorale will join the
orchestra to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection on May 15, 16 and 17 in Tampa, St. Petersburg
and Clearwater, respectively.
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