Thu 11/9 @ 7:30PM
Fri 11/10 @ 11AM
Sat 11/11 @ 8PM
Barbara Hannigan is a soprano and conductor from Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for her work in contemporary opera. She attended university in Toronto before spreading her wings to perform and conduct all over the world. That brings her to Cleveland this weekend where she’ll make her conducting debut at Severance Music Center this week to lead the Cleveland Orchestra in three concerts.
All three programs will feature Joseph Haydn’s 1772 Symphony No. 44, known as “Trauersymphonie,” and Richard Strauss’s orchestral tone poem Death and Transfiguration, written more than a century later, in 1888-89. On Thursday and Saturday, the program will sandwich two more pieces in between them: “Lonely Child,” a piece or soprano and orchestra written in 1980 by ill-fated Canadian composer Claudio Vivier, musing on his own rootless origins as an adoptee of unknown parentage (he was murdered three years later at the age of 34), and Austro-Hungarian composerGyörgy Sándor Ligeti’s 1967 piece Lontano. Greek soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, who has worked extensively with Hannigan, sings the soprano part in “Lonely Boy.”
Rabbi Roger Klein of The Temple-Tifereth Israel will present the preview lecture prior to the concerts.
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