Prokofiev: The Gambler

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, conductor
Olga Guryakova   •     •   Olga Savova   •   Larissa Diadkova
Vladimir Galouzine   •   Nikolai Gassiev   •   John Hancock
Sergei Aleksashkin

Sung in Russian with Met Titles in English

Bernstein: Candide

New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Daniel Reichard   •   Lauren Worsham   •   Jessica Wright
Judith Blazer   •   Kyle Pfortmiller   •   Richard Kind

Sung in English with supertitles in English

Oratorio Society of New York
Competition Finals

Program: TBA

Phillip Gaskill, conductor   •   Kariné Poghosyan, piano

Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84
Morton Cahn: Sonata for Strings (World Premiere)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 15

St. Thomas Aquinas Church
249 9th Street, at 4th Avenue, Brooklyn

Ji Hae Shin, Piano

Program: TBA

Škampa String Quartet:
Pavel Fischer, violin   •  Jana Lukášová, violin
Radim Sedmidubský, viola   •   Lukáš Polák, cello

Iva Bittová, Violin/vocals

Works by Janáček:
String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata”
Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, Part I (transcribed for voice and string quartet by Vladimír Godár, arranged by Iva Bittová and Škampa String Quartet)

Works by Iva Bittová:
Solo improvisation
Rain
Hopáhop Tálita
Morava

Janáček: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, Part II

Puccini: La fanciulla del West

Dicapo Opera Orchestra, John DiCostanzo, conductor
Irina Rindzuner   •   Zeffin Quinn Hollis   •   Marcos Aguiar
Michael Boley   •   Bryce Smith  •   Chad Armstrong
Paolo Buffagni   •   Vaughn Lindquist  •   Martin Fisher

The opera is sung in Italian with English titles.

Fabio Biondi, conductor

Baroque in the International Style

Galuppi Alla francese
Muffat Les Jeunes Espagnol
Campra Les Chinois
Biber Les Barbares

Works by Telemann:
Les Danoises
Les Angloises
Badinerie italienne

Works by Vivaldi
Sinfonia dalla Senna Festeggiante
Concerto L'estro Armonico Op. 3, No. 11
Concerto RV 540 for viola d'amore e liuto

Purcell Abdellazer
Destouches Chaconne
Leclair Concerto per violino Op. 7, No. 5 in Do Maggiore

Hilary Hahn, violin   •   Josh Ritter, voice and guitar

Josh Ritter: Songs
Bach: Sonata No. 2 for Solo Violin
Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin
Schubert/Earnst: Erlkönig for Solo Violin
Traditional transcriptions for Solo Violin of The Last Rose of Summer
Paganini: Caprice No. 24
Milstein: Paganiniana

The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

Puccini: Bohème

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti, Conductor
Angela Gheorghiu   •   Ainhoa Arteta   •   Ramón Vargas
Ludovic Tézier   •   Jeff Mattsey   •   Oren Gradus
Paul Plishka

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

Bernstein: Candide

New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Daniel Reichard   •   Lielle Berman   •   Jessica Wright
Judith Blazer   •   Kyle Pfortmiller   •   Richard Kind

Sung in English with supertitles in English

Leonard Slatkin, conductor   •   Lang Lang, piano

Tan Dun: Piano Concerto (World Premiere: New York Philharmonic Commission)
Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete)

Tokyo String Quartet:
Martin Beaver, violin   •   Kikuei Ikeda, violin
Kazuhide Isomura, viola   •   Clive Greensmith, cello

Haydn: Quartet, Op. 50, No. 5
Bartók: Quartet No. 5
Smetana: Quartet No. 1 in e minor, “From My Life”

Part of The Peoples' Symphony Concert series

Washington Irving Auditorium
Washington Irving High School
40 Irving Place, at 16th Street