Heres the info on Julliards Radmisto Juilliard Opera Presents G.F. Handels Radamisto, Directed by James Darrah and Conducted by Julian Wachner, on Wednesday, November 20 and Friday, November 22 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 24 at 2 PM in Juilliards Peter Jay Sharp Theater Juilliard Opera with Juilliards Period-Instrument Orchestra, Juilliard415 Thursday, October 31, 2013 Julian Wachner (Courtesy of JulianWachner) Juilliard415 (Photo by Nan Melville) James Darrah Artwork by Ellen MacDonald / Don Giordano Juilliard Opera opens its season with Georg Frideric Handel’s opera, Radamisto, directed by James Darrah and conducted by Julian Wachner (in his Juilliard debut), leading Juilliard’s primary period-instrument orchestra, Juilliard415. Handel’s opera was written for the Royal Academy of Music and had its premiere in the spring of 1720 at King’s Theatre, Haymarket. Radamisto, a story of lust, political intrigue, and the fight for power, is set to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym. It was Handel’s first opera for the newly-established Royal Academy of Music, an opera company whose mission was to bring the extravagant style of Italian opera known as opera seria to a London audience eager to hear the best singers of the day. Radamisto features some of the composer’s most inspired arias. Scenic and lighting designs are by Emily MacDonald and Cameron Mock; costume designs are by Sara Jean Tosetti. The cast features Juilliard singers bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock as Tiridate, The King of Armenia; soprano Mary Feminear as Polissena, the faithful (and wronged) wife of Tiridate; baritone Elliott Carlton Hines as Farasmane, the imprisoned King of Thrace and Radamisto’s father; countertenor John Holiday as Radamisto, the faithful husband of Zenobia and brother of Polissena; soprano Pureum Jo as Fraarte, Tiridate’s brother and secret admirer of Zenobia; soprano Elizabeth Sutphen as Tigrane, the Prince of Pontus; and mezzo-soprano Virginie Verrez as Zenobia, Radamisto’s wife and the object of Tiridate’s desire. The three performances take place on Wednesday, November 20 (8 PM); Friday, November 22 (8 PM); and Sunday, November 24 (2 PM) in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Tickets for Juilliard Opera’s production of Radamisto are $30, available online at juilliard.edu/radamisto, by calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500, or at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard. Senior and student tickets are $15, and only are available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM. Los Angeles-based director, production designer, and visual artist James Darrah is committed to collaborative projects within the mediums of opera, theater, musical theater, and film/video. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut with direction and production design for an experimental multimedia production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt featuring the music of Grieg, Schnittke, and Robin Holloway, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, in January 2013. Other recent work includes direction and design for Chicago Opera Theater with critically acclaimed new productions of Handel’s Teseo and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée, and his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut with Luciano Berio’s Recital 1 (for Cathy) as part of the Green Umbrella series. Upcoming projects include his directing debut with Opera Omaha and frequent collaborator Stephen Stubbs conducting Handel’s Agrippina; direction for the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting; Schoenberg’s The Book of Hanging Gardens with Boston Court Performing Arts in Los Angeles; continued collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on John Adams’ oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Peter Sellars, director) and Le nozze di Figaro (Christopher Alden, director); his directing debut for Pacific Musicworks in Seattle; and Così fan tutte in Hawaii, as well as projects for the new Camden Stage Festival in Maine, of which he is artistic director. Grammy®-nominated conductor Julian Wachner is sought-after as a conductor, composer, and keyboard artist. Recent and upcoming engagements include those with the Lincoln Center Festival (The Blind); BAM Next Wave Festival (Liederabend 2013); The Rolling Stones (50th anniversary tour); New York City Opera (VOX); Hong Kong Philharmonic; TENET (TENEbrae); Portland Baroque (Messiah); and with Carnegie Hall (Arvo Pärt’s Passio). As director of music and the arts at New York’s historic Trinity Wall Street, Mr. Wachner oversees an annual season of more than 900 events, including Trinity’s numerous and varied concert offerings, series, festivals, museum exhibitions, dance and theater performances, poetry and literary readings, and educational/outreach initiatives in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn in partnership with New York City’s public school system. At Trinity Wall Street, Mr. Wachner serves as principal conductor of NOVUS NY (Trinity’s resident contemporary music orchestra), Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and Choir of Trinity Wall Street. About the Cast Aubrey Allicock (Tiridate) Bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock is a second-year Artist Diploma in Opera Studies student at The Juilliard School. A student of Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., he continues to make his mark among important opera companies and symphonies both at home and abroad. Mr. Allicocks operatic roles include Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Ping in Turandot, the Old Doctor in Vanessa, King Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors, the Unnamed Bass in Too Many Sopranos, Marullo in Rigoletto, and Tchelio in The Love for Three Oranges. He has also performed as the bass soloist in Handels Messiah with members of the Phoenix Symphony. Mr. Allicock made his European debut in 2006 as bass soloist in Mozarts Coronation Mass and Beethovens Missa Solemnis at Karlskirche in Vienna, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. In December of 2006, Mr. Allicock performed as the soloist opposite Academy Award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr., in Dvořáks A New World Symphony: A Portrait of H. T. Burleigh for Chamber Music PLUS of Arizona. Mr. Allicock has also performed and covered operatic roles with such conductors as Stephen Lord, Michael Christie, Anne Manson, Will Crutchfield, Arthur Fagen, David Agler, Ricardo Frizza, and Fabio Luisi. In February of 2011, Mr. Allicock was invited to join the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, where he covered the roles of Astarotte in Armida and Marullo in Rigoletto in the 2010-11 season. Mr. Allicocks recent performances included a special appearance with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in the role of Young Emile in the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Champion. Mr. Allicocks future engagements include his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2014-15 season. Mary Feminear (Polissena) Soprano Mary Feminear is an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies student at The Juilliard School. She is originally from Auburn, Alabama. In August of 2012 she performed as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Chautauqua Music Festival. Other opera credits include Abigail Williams in The Crucible, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Constance Fletcher in The Mother of Us All, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She has performed in recitals in affiliation with Wednesdays at One in Alice Tully Hall, The Leschetiszky Association, and Teachers College at Columbia University. She received an M.A. in 2012 from Teachers College, Columbia University with an academic focus on music education, vocal pedagogy, and voice disorders. In 2009, she received a bachelor of music from The Juilliard School. She is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship and the Hardesty & Beverley Peck Johnson Fund. Elliott Carlton Hines (Farasmane) Baritone Elliott Carlton Hines is a second-year master of music student at The Juilliard School studying under Ms. Edith Wiens. Mr. Hines is a recent recipient of the Lucrezia Bori Prize and is a Toulmin Foundation Scholar. He has performed as bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Duruflé’s Requiem with the Oberlin Musical Union and Oberlin College Choir. He performed the role of Jesus in the North American premiere of the newly-reconstructed Bach/Kaiser Markus-Passion with Bach Society Houston. Mr. Hines has sung the roles of Don Inigo Gomez and Le Fauteuil/L’Arbre in Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les Sortileges, as well as Krusina in The Bartered Bride with Oberlin Opera Theater. A native of Houston, Texas, Mr. Hines began his vocal studies with Dr. Timothy Jones and received his bachelor of music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, studying under Mr. Salvatore Champagne. John Holiday (Radamisto) In repertoire encompassing Georg Frideric Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto to Jonathan Dove’s Flight and beyond, countertenor John Holiday’s expressive and richly beautiful voice has made him an increasingly sought-after artist. Mr. Holiday, originally from Houston, Texas, is currently a student of the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program at The Juilliard School, studying with Marlena Malas. In the 2013–14 season, John Holiday will make his debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and return to Ars Lyrica in Houston for Scarlatti’s La Sposa dei Cantici, which will be recorded for Sono Luminus in February 2014 for release in late 2014 or early 2015. His appearance as Radamisto at Juilliard marks his debut in the role and later he will be heard with the Juilliard Orchestra in Giya Kancheli’s And Farewell Goes Out Sighing… conducted by Anne Manson. Recently, Mr. Holiday made his Carnegie Hall debut as the soloist in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, led by Robert Spano, as well as in performances for audiences in Atlanta. He joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover Nireno in Giulio Cesare under Harry Bicket in David McVicar’s production. Mr. Holiday also made his company debut with Portland Opera in Phillip Glass’ Galileo Galilei and reprised his roles, to great acclaim, in the same work at the Cincinnati Opera this summer. Recently, Mr. Holiday was an apprentice artist at The Santa Fe Opera where he covered the role of Corrado in Peter Sellars’ production of Vivaldi’s Griselda and was seen as the Refugee in Flight for the Apprentice Singers Program of opera scenes. In addition to winning the Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, Mr. Holiday recently received a first prize from The Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition and the Sullivan Foundation, and was a prize winner in The Giulio Gari Foundation, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and Palm Beach Opera competitions. Pureum Jo (Fraarte) Soprano Pureum Jo, a native of Korea, is a second-year master of music student at The Juilliard School, where she also received her bachelor of music degree. Ms. Jo has appeared as Matsukaze in Matsukaze (Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center Festival), Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites (The Chautauqua Institution), and Sandrina in La finta giardiniera. She has covered Norina in Don Pasquale and Giulia in La scala di seta (The Juilliard School). She has also performed at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in concert, including the Marilyn Horne Foundation Annual Recital The Song Continues…, Juilliard’s Wednesdays at One series, Juilliard Songfest coached by Brian Zeger, and a concert of Rameau works with Juilliard415 under Robert Mealy. Ms. Jo has appeared as a soloist in Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Mozart’s Laudate Dominum with Voices of Ascension in New York City. She is a student of Marlena Malas and is the recipient of the Anna Case MacKay Scholarship. Elizabeth Sutphen (Tigrane) Elizabeth Sutphen, soprano, from Syracuse, New York, is currently a second-year master of music degree student at The Juilliard School studying with Edith Bers. Her recent honors include first place in the Shirley Rabb Winston National Vocal Scholarship Competition and National Society of Arts and Letters Vocal Award. She also garnered honors from The American Prize in both Opera and Art Song. Her opera roles include Suor Genevieve in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the Aspen Opera Theatre, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Opera on the Avalon, The Owl in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and Don Ramiro in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, both at Juilliard. Additionally, she sang Argene (cover) alongside Ewa Podles in the North American premiere of Rossini’s Ciro in Babilonia with Bel Canto at Caramoor, where she was an apprentice artist. She recently made her Peter Jay Sharp Theater debut with the New York Festival of Song, her Alice Tully Hall debut in Juilliard’s Wednesdays at One series, and her Harris Concert Hall debut with the Aspen Chamber Orchestra. She earned her bachelor of music degree from The Juilliard School. Virginie Verrez (Zenobia) A native of Ussac, France, Virginie Verrez is a master of music degree student at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Edith Wiens. Ms. Verrez has appeared in recitals in Paris, Baden bei Wien, and Vienna, and sang in Vivaldis Dixit Dominus in Limoges. As a participant at the Schubert Institute, Ms. Verrez studied with such renowned artists as Roger Vignoles and Robert Holl. Ms. Verrez gave her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall premiering a work for orchestra by George Oakley. She recently performed the role of Beatrice (Le donne curiose) at Juilliard, and appeared in Juilliards Wednesdays at One series and the 2013 New York Festival of Song – A Night at the Operetta, both in Alice Tully Hall. Ms. Verrez is a recipient of the Lucrezia Bori Prize and was the first prize winner at the 2012 Festival dArles International Competition. In 2014, she will be performing the role of Lola (Cavalleria rusticana) at Avignon Opera. About the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at Juilliard Brian Zeger, Artistic Director One of America’s most prestigious programs for educating singers, The Juilliard School’s Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts offers young artists programs tailored to their talents and needs. From bachelor and master of music degrees to advanced artist diploma programs in voice and opera studies, Juilliard provides frequent performance opportunities, featuring singers in its own recital halls, on Lincoln Center’s stages, and around New York City. Juilliard Opera has presented numerous premieres of new operas as well as works from the standard repertoire. Juilliard graduates may be heard on recordings and in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world; diverse alumni artists include well-known performers such as Simon Estes, Renée Fleming, Anthony Dean Griffey, Leontyne Price, Risë Stevens, Tatiana Troyanos, and Shirley Verrett, as well as more recent alumni including Paul Appleby, Julie Boulianne, Sasha Cooke, Isabel Leonard, Erin Morley, Simon O’Neill, Susanna Phillips, Emalie Savoy, and Jennifer Zetlan. Pianist Brian Zeger has built a distinguished international performance career in addition to appearing as radio broadcaster, artistic administrator, and educator. In a career spanning more than two decades, Mr. Zeger has enjoyed collaborations with many of the world’s top artists and enjoys an active career as a chamber musician. Currently he is artistic director of the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for the Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School and the executive director of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Development Program. About Juilliard415 Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415, the School’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has received critical praise for its performances of both rare and canonical works of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble, which takes its name from the pitch commonly accepted for the performance of Baroque music (A=415), performs a wide range of repertoire in a number of different guises. Depending on the repertoire, the ensemble performs with as few as four or five players for intimate chamber music programs, to as many as 30 for major cornerstones of the repertoire, most often directed by distinguished resident and guest artists. Juilliard415 has performed with distinguished musicians such as William Christie, Ton Koopman, Harry Bicket (in a fully-staged production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea), Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Hogwood, and Monica Huggett. In April 2011, the ensemble was engaged to accompany David Daniels and Dorothea Röschmann in a concert of Handel arias and duets at Carnegie Hall. Members of Juilliard415 have twice been featured as in-studio guests on WQXR-FM, New York Public Radio. Members of Juilliard415 have participated with musicians from Les Arts Florissants and the Jardin des voix, in Rencontres musicales en Vendée, Mr. Christie’s summer festival in Thiré, France. Touring has become an important component of Juilliard415’s profile. In a collaborative concert with Juilliard Baroque, the ensemble traveled to Spain for a sold-out performance of the complete “Brandenburg” Concertos at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. In 2011, Juilliard415 performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on tour in Italy in a joint concert project with Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music led by Masaaki Suzuki. During the 2012-13 school year, Juilliard415 also performed Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with William Christie (named as one of the 10 best of the season by The New York Times), an all-Mozart program with fortepiano specialist Christoph Hammer in his Juilliard debut, an all-Rameau concert with Robert Mealy, and a performance of early German orchestral works with Jordi Savall at the Metropolitan Museum and Lincoln Center, among many other engagements. The ensemble teamed up again with Yale and Maestro Suzuki for Bach’s B Minor Mass, with performances in New York, New Haven, the Virginia Arts Festival, and on tour in Tokyo, Kyoto, Sendai, and Singapore. The 2013-14 season brings return visits from William Christie for Charpentier’s Actéon, Jordi Savall for a program of suites by Henry Purcell and Matthew Locke, Nicholas McGegan in a program of music from the courts of Dresden and Berlin, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 with Monica Huggett, and Richard Egarr in his Juilliard debut conducting Handel and Purcell. A centerpiece of Juilliard415’s programming in 2013-14 includes the rare opportunity to hear both Bach Passions in successive months, as well as a fully-staged production of Handel’s Radamisto. Along with performances in New York, the ensemble will be presented by the Miami Bach Society and the Virginia Arts Festival. # # # JUILLIARD OPERA 2013-2014 //events.juilliard.edu or Call, (212) 769-7406 Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Paul Hall, and Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater are located inside Juilliard at 155 W. 65th Street. Alice Tully Hall is located at the corner of Broadway and W. 65th Street, on the northern edge of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. CALENDAR Wednesday, November 20 and Friday, November 22 at 8 PM; Sunday, November 24 at 2 PM in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater RADAMISTO by Georg Frideric Handel Librettist: Nicola Francesco Haym Director: James Darrah Conductor: Julian Wachner Scenic Designers: Emily MacDonald and Cameron Mock Costume Designer: Sara Jean Tosetti Lighting Designers: Cameron Mock and Emily MacDonald Juilliard Opera Juilliard415 Cast: Tiridate: Aubrey Allicock, bass-baritone Polissena: Mary Feminear, soprano Farasmane: Elliott Carlton Hines, baritone Radamisto: John Holiday, countertenor Fraarte: Pureum Jo, soprano Tigrane: Elizabeth Sutphen, soprano Zenobia: Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano Tickets are $30, available October 16 at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box office at Juilliard, by calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500, or online at juilliard.edu/radamisto. 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