) " Minnesota Orchestra Viennese Sommerfest Leonard Slatkin, Artistic Director

Festival Concert No. 23

VIENNESE SOMMERFEST '89 is presented by the Minnesota Orchestral Association and weco Television e Saturday, August 12, 1989,8 p.m./Orchestra Hall

I FESTIVAL FINALE: AIDA'

Leonard Slatkin conducting

GIUSEPPE VERDI AIDA

(complete concert performance)

. Aida LEONA MITCHELL, soprano Radames RUBEN DOMINGUEZ, tenor Ramfis KENNETH COX, bass < \~ Amneris DIANE CURRY, mezzo-soprano Amonasro VERNON HARTMAN, baritone King of Egypt JAMES PATTERSON, bass High Priestess DEBORAH VOIGT, soprano' Messenger BRIAN HILT, tenor

\ THE DALE WARLAND SYMPHONIC CHORUS DaleWarland, Music Director Sigrid Johnson, Associate Conductor

Karl Sollak, assistant conductor and repetiteur

ACT I, Scenes 1 and 2 ACT II, Scenes 1 and 2

Intermission

ACT III ACT IV,.'Scenes 1 and 2

Sponsoring assistance by Northland Development Company

Performance time: including intermission, is approximately three hours. Synopsis and program notes appear in a supplement. \ This concert is broadcast live throughout the region on Minnesota Public Radio stations, including KSJN (9} .1) in the Twin Cities.

60 SHOWCASE SOMMERFEST 1989 James Patterson Brian Hilt The Dale Warland King of EgVpt Messenger . Symphonic Chorus James Patterson is one of North America's - Winner of the 1988 Singer's Award pre- Soprano most active operatic basses. He performed sented by the Wagner Society of New york Jean Anderson Renee Marie Patricia Arntz Lande extensively with the San Francisco and a recent finalist in the Metropolitan Doris Berget Jeanne Mayer' during the 1988-89 season, appearing as 'Opera Regional Auditions, tenor Brian Hilt Laura.Boe Barbara Nelson Trulove in The Rake's has performed with the Deborah Brude Julie Ann Olson Progress, Titurel in New Rochelle Opera Margaret Burton Shawn Olson Barbara Butcher Martha Otto Parsifal, and as the Old Company, the New Ca- Rachel S. Christensen Mary Patton Conyict in Lady Mac- naan Society for the Ruth Dagg Patti Peters beth of Mtsensk. Up- Arts, the West Palm Connie DeLand Sigrid Redpath coming engagements Beach Opera and the Heather Dick Lea Anna Sue Dieter Sams-McGowan for the 1989-90 season Westchester Opera Sue Donaldson Marie Sathrum include performances Company. His operatic Mary Fairbairn Lisa Burau Sawatsky as Basilio in The Bar- ~engagements have in-l Mary French Sandra ber of Seville with the Canadian Opera. eluded roles in La Boheme, Otello, Car- Karen Hanson Schoenecker Cynthia Hedberg Sue A. Shepard The beginnings of Patterson's career can men, Die Walkare and Pagliacci, while his Kathy Hering Brenda Sielaff be traced back to 1981, when he was named oratorio repertoire is equally extensive: Kathy Hunter Carolyn Sinclair an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Op- Bach's B-minor Mass and Christmas Ora- ~tricia Ingle Linda Steen era. Later joining the torio, Handel's Messiah, Bizet's Te Deum Jan Johnson Kari Waarvik Sigrid Johnson Jill Warner as an Adler Fellow, he has since been heard and Britten's Canticle III. A native of New Kathy Josselyn Margaret 1. Westin many times with that company in such op- York State, Hilt gained European recogni- Carolyn Kapoun Diane Wood eras as , Un ballo in tion during a tour of Poland in perform- Mary Kreitzer Ruth Wood maschera and Aida. Debuts in Vancouver ances of Bach's Magnificat. Alto and Seattle soon' followed, and Patterson Coralie Allen Barbara Muir The, Dale Warland Susan Barnes Alvina O'Brien appeared as Fafner in the 1984 Pacific- Linda 1. Benge 4 t Jacklyn 1. O'Brien Northwest Ring Festival. A native of To- S'ymphonic Chorus Jeanne Bengston Holly Sue Olson ronto, he holds bachelor's and master's de- This season of Viennese Sommerfest is the Karen Burger Joan Quam-MacKenzie .grees from the University of Michigan. fifth consecutive in which the Dale Watland Suzanne Dailey Mindy Ratner Symphonic Chorus has been featured in the Deanne Dohrman Judith Reed Jo Fleming Rhoda Reighard Deborah Voigt festival finale: first in Turandot, then in Fi- Wendy Halverson Patricia A. Riley' High Priestess delio; Otello, Tosca and now Aida. In the Debra K. Harrer Marjorie M.'Rusche Soprano Deborah Voigt sang the role of Jive seasons since -itsformation, the Chorus Annamarie Hill Kay Sandeen has also performed with the Minnesota Or- Karen Johnson Gail Schumacher Wellgunde in the 1988 Minnesota Orches- Lynette R. Johnson- Dennie McCollom Scott tra concert performances of Richard chestra in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Lynn Johnson Gail E. Sipfle Wagner's . The winner of 'Verdi's and the world premiere of Ramona Kaszas Stacy,Smith many vocal prizes in- Stephen Paulus' Voices. At the core of the Suzanne Kennedy Diane Sorenson ensemble is the Dale Warland Singers, one Julie Kirsch ' Deb Southworth cluding the Metropoli- Sharon Kleckner Rica Jane Van tan Opera Auditions of the few fully professional choral groups Gail Kraemer Alicia Ward and the competition of in the U.S. Years of concert tours, music Janet Lechman Mary BellWolff the National Associa- festival appearances, residencies and works Janet Swenson Lima Angela Wright commissioned for the group by such com- Sandra K. Magstadt Donelle Zimdars tion of Teachers of Kathleen Martin Claudia Zylstra Singing, she began her posers as Dominick Argento, William' Marilyn Miller professional operatic Schuman and George Shearing have given Tenor career in 1985 touring the Singers international stature. Thomas Barth Steve Knight nationally as Donna Anna in Western Op-' Dale Warland, music director of the Dale Dave Bucher Robert Knudtson Warland Symphonic Chorus and the Dale Russ Bursch Gary A. Kortemeier \ era Theater's production afDon Giovanni .. Donald Carlson Lee Mauk Since then she has sung with the San Fran- Warland Singers, is active throughout the Thomas J. Chervenak Paul McGinnis cisco Opera in Don Carlos, Jenufa, Mac- country as a guest conductor" lecturer, Bob Collopy Michael Miller beth, The Magic Flute and Nabucco, in ad- composer and arranger. Among his many Mike Danko Jeffrey Nielsen, conducting credits are performances with Philip Friedlund Craig Shulstad dition to roles with the Stockton Symphony Kim Griebenow Steve Wagner Orchestra in Aida, the Riverside Opera in the Swedish Radio Choir, the Danish Radio John Hollen Robert Walker Choir, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and, most recently, Bass the Eugene Opera in The Marriage of and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Now Jerry Rubino r LeRoy Altermatt Figaro. - / serving as choral advisor to Oxford Univer- , Leif O. Berget Arthur Rudolph- LaRue sity Press, Warland was recently honored Steve Burger Ron Rydell ,John Ds-Schonebaum as 1989 Alumnus of the Year of the Univer- Michael Dailey ,I Steven Hodulik Wes Schultz I sity of Southern California. Jerry Johnson Curtis Seter Chad Klingbeil Scott Seyforth Don Loegering Sherm Stanchfield Gerald Loewen Frank Steen Robert 1. Miller Paul Theisen John L. Nyberg John R. Towler David Peterson Roger Towler Eldon Potter Mike Wilson Allen G. Richwine Woody Woodward Chuck Risser David Zylstra \

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