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To request a change to your listing, please call (562) 467-8806 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. 3 presents MUSICA ANGELICA MARTIN HASELBÖCK, CONDUCTOR TILMAN LICHDI, TENOR/EVANGELIST MARY WILSON, SOPRANO CATHERINE WEBSTER, SOPRANO KRISTEN TOEDTMAN, MEZZO-SOPRANO IAN HOWELL, COUNTER TENOR PABLO CORÁ, TENOR MICHAEL DEAN, BASS-BARITONE SCOTT GRAFF, BASS-BARITONE The Easter masterpiece is performed as Johann Sebastian Bach originally intended with solo singers. Musica Angelica re-creates this intimate setting with eight top solo singers. Friday, March 26, 2010, 8:00 PM There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. 4 PROGRAM St. John Passion Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) BIOGRAPHIES MUSICA ANGELICA has earned a reputation tors Christoph Poppen, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, and Jörg for programming a mixture of known masterworks along Straube, and is devoted to the Evangelist’s parts of Bach’s with rarely heard compositions, providing a platform for passions and oratorios. Lichdi recently performed Joseph many of the best Baroque musicians from all across the Haydn’s Creation with Christof Perick in Charlotte, North United States and Europe. Since its 1993 inception, the Carolina, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Kent Nagano ensemble has garnered headlines and critical acclaim, in Brazil. Lichdi has performed with the Opera companies with the Los Angeles Times deeming it “a Baroque gem … of Würzburg, Heidelberg, Flensburg, Kaiserslauterm, Man- a triumph.” The Pasadena Star News exalted the “powerful nheim, and the Munich Biennale, and is a member of the emotions and the clarity and invigorating complexity” of Nuremberg State Theatre. His 2009 performance highlights the ensemble’s performances. Musica Angelica’s world- include Claudio Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers at the Chatelet class reputation has attracted the likes of guest conductors Paris, and a tour of Italy and Spain with Ton Koopman and Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giovanni Antonini, Harry Bicket, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in Bach’s St. Matthew Paul Goodwin, and Jory Vinikour, leading to numerous Passion. successful collaborations with the Los Angeles Opera, MARY WILSON (Soprano) is recognized as one of Long Beach Opera, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton today’s most exciting young sopranos, cultivating a wide- Simon Museum, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.