Welcome Students and Teachers to Opera Online! From October 29th to November 6th people all over the country are celebrating National Opera Week. This week we take a look opera in your community!
Video Clips of the Week!
Our first video clip is from the National Opera Week last year. On October 30th, 650 people gathered at Macy's in downtown Philadelphia to perform Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" in a Random Act of Culture. This huge surprise received national recognition and has had over 7 million hits on YouTube.
Our next video clip is from a 2010 Random Act of Culture at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Singers from the OCP Chorus surprised hundreds of market shoppers in this stirring rendition of "Brindisi" from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata.
Our final surprise performance comes from this year. On April 2nd members of the Keystone State Boychoir surprised parents and children alike with the street children's chorus from Carmen at the Please Touch Museum.
Website of the Week!
For free National Opera Week events this week in Philadelphia check out the Opera Company of Philadelphia website!
Opera on the Air!!
On Saturday, November 5th at 1 PM, radio station WRTI will be broadcasting the Houston Grand Opera's production of the American opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie (in English). A story of compassion and redemption, Joseph De Rocher (Philip Cutlip) leads a lonely life on death row until Sister Helen Prejean (Joyce DiDonato) arrives as his spiritual advisor. Legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade marks her farewell to the operatic stage with these appearances as De Rocher's mother and Measha Brueggergosman makes her HGO debut as Sister Rose. Patrick Summers, who conducted the opera's world premiere a decade ago, conducts Houston Grand Opera's performances.
Until Next Week!
Video Clips of the Week!
Our first video clip is from the National Opera Week last year. On October 30th, 650 people gathered at Macy's in downtown Philadelphia to perform Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" in a Random Act of Culture. This huge surprise received national recognition and has had over 7 million hits on YouTube.
Our next video clip is from a 2010 Random Act of Culture at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Singers from the OCP Chorus surprised hundreds of market shoppers in this stirring rendition of "Brindisi" from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata.
Our final surprise performance comes from this year. On April 2nd members of the Keystone State Boychoir surprised parents and children alike with the street children's chorus from Carmen at the Please Touch Museum.
Be sure to be on the look out this week. Who knows you might find yourself in a Random Act of Culture!
Website of the Week!
For free National Opera Week events this week in Philadelphia check out the Opera Company of Philadelphia website!
Opera on the Air!!
On Saturday, November 5th at 1 PM, radio station WRTI will be broadcasting the Houston Grand Opera's production of the American opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie (in English). A story of compassion and redemption, Joseph De Rocher (Philip Cutlip) leads a lonely life on death row until Sister Helen Prejean (Joyce DiDonato) arrives as his spiritual advisor. Legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade marks her farewell to the operatic stage with these appearances as De Rocher's mother and Measha Brueggergosman makes her HGO debut as Sister Rose. Patrick Summers, who conducted the opera's world premiere a decade ago, conducts Houston Grand Opera's performances.
Until Next Week!
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