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Lehigh University Lehigh Preserve Performance Programs Music Spring 4-25-2008 Verdi Requiem Lehigh University Music Department Follow this and additional works at: http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cas-music-programs Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Lehigh University Music Department, "Verdi Requiem" (2008). Performance Programs. 274. http://preserve.lehigh.edu/cas-music-programs/274 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at Lehigh Preserve. It has been accepted for inclusion in Performance Programs by an authorized administrator of Lehigh Preserve. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Welcome to Zoellner Arts Center! We hope you will take advantage of all the facilities, including Baker Hall, the Diamond and Black Box Tlzeaters, as well as the Art Galleries and the Museum Shop, There are restrooms 011 even; floor and concession stands in the two lobbies. For all ticket information, call (610) 7LU-ARTS (610-758-2787). To ensure the best experience for everyone, please: Bring no food or drink into any of the theaters Refrain from talking while music is being performed Refrain from applause bettoeen movements Do not use flash photography or recording devices Turn off all pagers and cellular phones Turn off alarms on wrist watches Do not smoke anywhere in the facilities MUSIC DEPARTMENT STAFF Professors - Paul Salemi (chair), Steven Sametz, Nadine Sine Associate Professors - Eugene Albulescu, William Warfield Professors of Practice - Debra Field, Timothy Schwarz Lecturer - David Diggs Adjuncts/ Private Instructors - Deborah Andrus, Eduardo Azzati, David Bakamjian, Helen Beedle, David Brandom, Brian Chu, Bob DeVos, James Finegan, Domenick Fiore, Scott Force, Linda Ganus, Tom Guama, Margaret Hanegraaf, Timothy Harrell, Tim Harrison, William Holmes, Vic Juris, Robin Kani, Barbara Llebhaber, Chris Lorenzetti, Donna McHugh, Scott Neumann, Albert Neumeyer, Patricia O'Connell, Jan Opalach, Gene Perla, Irmgard Pursell, Kate Ransom, David Riekenberg, Paul Rosenberg, Kim Seifert, Tim Sessions, James Thoma, Eileen Wescoe, Andrea Wittchen, Larry Wright Department Coordinator - Olga Jacoby Libraries Coordinator - Linda Lipkis Program Coordinator - Linda Ganus Accounts Coordinator - Deborah Ruthrauff Music Department Audio Coordinator - William Holmes ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Managing Director - Elizabeth Scofield Assistant - Cyndy Brinker Programming/Outreach Director - Deborah Sacarakis Assistant - David Olsher Audience Seruices Director - Sandra Anderson Ticket Seruices Manager - Rachel Miller House Manager - Rosalie Sandburg Development for the Arts Director - Susan Vengrove Senior Marketing Associate - Z. Candi Staurinos Marketing Associate - Lynn Farley Scheduling Manager - Mount Allen ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER TECHNICAL STAFF Production Manager - Joshua Kovar Assistant Production Manager - R. Elizabeth Miller Audio Coordinator - Erik T. Lawson Associate Audio Coordinator - Kate Foretek Costume Director - Pamela Richey Lighting Coordinator - Elizabeth Lammer Assistant Lighting Coordinator - Jennifer Greene Stage Coordinator - Becky Eshelman Interim Technical Director - Bart Freed Lehigh University Music Department presents Lehigh University Choral Arts Giuseppe Verdi Requiem Steven Sametz, director Fabiana Bravo, soprano Dyer Artist-in-Residence Patricia Risley, mezzo-soprano Michael C. "Bear" Sebastian Artist-in-Residence Benjamin Warschawski, tenor Steven P. Sametz Artist-in-Residence Jan Opalach, bass Steven P. Sametz Artist-in-Residence Friday & Saturday, April 25 & 26, 2008 8 pm Baker Hall Zoellner Arts Center Lehigh University Choral Arts Steven Sametz, director Debra Field, associate director Overture to I vespri siciliani (1855) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Messa da Requiem (1874) Giuseppe Verdi I. Requiem - Kyrie Chorus and Solo Quartet II. Dies irae: Dies irae Chorus Tubamirum Chorus and Bass Liber scriptum Mezzo-soprano and Chorus Quid sum miser Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Tenor Rex tremendae Chorus and Solo Quartet Recordare Soprano and Mezzo-soprano Ingemisco Tenor Confutatis Bass and Chorus Lacrymosa Chorus and Solo Quartet INTERMISSION III. Offertorio Solo Quartet N. Sanctus Double Chorus V. Agnus Dei Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Chorus VI. Lux aeterna Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, and Bass VII. Libera me Soprano and Chorus ABOUT THE ARTISTS STEVEN SAMETZ, Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music, has earned increasing renown in recent years as both composer and conductor. He is the Director of Choral Activities at Lehigh University and also serves as artistic director of the elite a cappella ensemble, The Princeton Singers. Guest conducting appearances include the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the New York Chamber Symphony, and the Netherlands Radio Choir. Dr. Sametz' compositions have been heard throughout the world at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein, Santa Fe, and Salzburg music festivals. His in time of appears on the Grammy-award-winning CD by Chanticleer, "Colors of Love," and his works may be heard on six other Chanticleer CDs, as well as Lehigh University Choir's "Live from Taipei," the Lehigh University Choral Arts "Christmas at Lehigh," The Princeton Singers' "Reincarnations," "Christmas with The Princeton Singers," and "Old, New, Borrowed Blues." Dr. Sametz has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Council for the Arts, and Santa Fe Music Festival, creating new works for Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, The Princeton Singers, the Philadelphia Singers, the Pro Arte Chamber Choir, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Connecticut Choral Artists, and the King of Thailand. His compositions are published by Oxford University Press, GIA, E.C. Schirmer, Walton, and Alliance Music. Dr. Sametz has served as panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and Chorus America. He has been Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University and is the founder and director of the Lehigh University Choral Union. At the Santa Fe Music Festival, he conducted his own works in a program entitled "Sametz conducts Sametz." He has conducted Chanticleer with the Lehigh University Choir in the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 in New York and San Francisco to critical acclaim, Dr. Sametz holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. Fabiana Bravo made her professional debut in 1996 as Lucia in Lucia de Lamermoor with Luciano Pavarotti at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia after winning the 5th Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. Since then she has achieved recognition as Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Norma, Ariade auf Naxos, La Gioconda, Mimi in La Boheme, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Leonora in Il Irovatore, Madame Lidoine in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Desdemona in Otello, Amelia in Un Balla in Maschera, and Leonora in Verdi's Oberto. Among the many opera companies Fabiana Bravo has worked with are New York City Opera (Giorgietta in Il Tabarro), the Metropolitan Opera (Mimi in La Boheme and Aida), San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera and Los Angeles Opera (Madama Butterfly), New Orleans Opera and Wichita Opera (Donna Anna in Don Giovanni), Michigan Opera Theater and Opera Santa Barbara (Amelia in Un Balla in Maschera), Opera de Puerto Rico and Virginia Opera (Norma), Shanghai Opera, ( where she did the First Tosca ever in China), Toledo Opera and Virginia Opera (Tosca), San Diego Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Tulsa Opera, Central City Opera and Teatro Felice in Genova (Mimi in La Boheme). Fabiana Bravo made her Carnegie Hall debut as Fiora in L'Amore dei tre re by Montemezzi with the Opera Orchestra of New York. She has also performed in Italy where appeared in in Rome, Parma and Voghera including a recital at Castel Gandolfo for Pope John Paul II. In Prague she appeared with Sergei Leiferkus and the Prague Symphony in an all Verdi Gala, telecast in Eurovision. In Oviedo, Spain, she performed the Gala Verdi; in Denmark, a Verdi-Puccini concert at Korngold Castle, and in Germany a concert for Operalia with the Operalia Finalists and Placido Domingo. Upcoming engagements are Queen Elisabeth I in Maria S iuarda for Baltimore Opera, Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlos for Hawaii Opera, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro for The Teatro Nacional of Costa Rica and the release of her album debut CD in November of this year. Opera News hails Patricia Risley for "her voice .. .luscious and agile, her chaj'acterization both boisterous and tender" as well as her beautiful "singing with ease and certainty." Frequently sought after on national and international stages, Patricia Risley's 2007-08 season includes performances of Berio's Folk Songs and de Falla' s Three-Cornered Hat with the Oregon Symphony and returns to Utah Opera for Angelina in La Cenerentola and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for Nicklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann. In the 2006-07 season, she sang the role of Kara Sandstrom in the world premiere of Pasatieri's Frau Margot with Fort Worth Opera in the company's inaugural festival season (recorded on CD). She also sang Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro in her return to Arizona Opera, Kornponist in Ariadne auf Naxos with Utah Opera, and also returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Badessa in Suor Angelica and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi. Ms. Risley has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Madrid's
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