Fri 11/16 @ 8PM
Music director Christopher Wilkins leads the Akron symphony in an operatic evening of music at E.J. Thomas Hall. Things get started with a couple of well-known selections by master 19th century opera composer Giuseppe Verdi: the “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore and the Ballet and Triumphal March from Aida, both conducted by Akron Symphony Chorus director Marie Bucoy-Calavan who will lead the orchestra and chorus and conduct Verdi’s Nabucco overture as well.
Wilkins will follow, conducting excerpts from such Richard Wagner operas as The Ring of the Nibelungen, Das Rheingold, The Ride of the Valkyries and Götterdämmerung, with soprano Elisabeth Rosenberg performing Brünnhilde’s dramatic immolation scene, in which she rides her horse into a flaming funeral pyre. Don’t expect a horse onstage.
Maestro Wilkins will talk about the music in “A Preview from the Podium” at 7pm.
Tickets start at $25.
University of Akron, Akron, OH 44304