Fall Festival 2009: FÊTE FRANÇAISE!
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The Philharmonia Orchestra performs a unique variety of excerpts from Wagner's operas. Click here for the official press anouncement.
The Philharmonia Orchestra performs Verdi's brilliant and virtuosic score, FALSTAFF. Click here for the official press announcement.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music proudly presents Gioachino Rossini's bright and bubbly operatic romance, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Feb. 12-15, 2009.
Full of spirited hijinks and flying high notes, The Barber of Seville follows Count Almaviva, a determined suitor who, along with his scissors-wielding sidekick Figaro, is dragged into one mishap after another as he attempts to wrest the captivating Rosina from an overprotective guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Memorable melodies, amusing antics and a hilarious against-the-odds love story have established Rossini’s opera as one of the most popular of all time.
CCM's talented cast of singers will be led by conductor Annunziata Tomaro and director Karen Coe Miller.
CCM PRESENTS MULTIMEDIA CONCERT FEATURING
J.S. BACH’S MASS IN B MINOR
Bach’s music receives a moving visual interpretation in the film ‘The Sound of Eternity,’ presented in conjunction with a performance by the CCM Chamber Choir and Philharmonia Orchestra.
CINCINNATI, Ohio – The transcendental beauty of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach receives an imaginative interpretation in a multimedia concert hosted by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).
CCM presents German director Bastian Clevé’s film, The Sound of Eternity, a lush visual interpretation of J.S. Bach’s glorious Mass in B Minor. Accompanying the film will be a live performance of the work by the CCM Chamber Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra and student soloists, under the baton of conductor Earl Rivers. The film and performance will be presented jointly at Knox Presbyterian Church (Michigan and Observatory Avenues, Cincinnati) on Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m., with a pre-performance discussion led by Clevé at 7 p.m. A follow-up performance of the Mass (without the film) takes place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23.
Clevé’s film, The Sound of Eternity, received its U.S. premiere at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2006. It is constructed of 27 short, dialogue-free films—based on the 27-part musical structure of the Mass—that lead us through alpine mountains and glaciers to peaceful valleys and pulsating metropolitan cities. The result is a powerful meditation on existence and being, the religious and the unexplainable and, ultimately, the circle of life.
Known as the “queen among masses,” Bach’s Mass in B Minor is the composer’s opus ultimum and opus summum—the artistic record of a life’s work. Bach spent the last 15 years of his life at work on this significant piece, and it is the only complete mass that he ever composed, considered unique for the beauty of its musical expression.
“For me personally, the Mass in B Minor is an incredibly inspiring, reflective, euphoric and jubilant experience, almost as if, far from a single person's destiny, a door opens into heaven. Out of this breathtaking experience the individual films have been created," says Clevé. “The vision behind the film is to let the audience take inspiration through their ears and eyes, leave them contently carried away, feeling fulfilled and complete, and—one hopes—to keep this happiness for a little while."
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