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Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 1:30 pm

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fédéric Chaslin, Conductor
Elina Garanca   •   Michael Schade   •   Franco Vassallo
Bruno Praticò   •   Peter Rose

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

The Musica Bella Chamber Orchestra
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Brooklyn, at 2:00 pm

Phillip Gaskill, conductor
Sofia Dimitrova, soprano   •   Sarah Hoeppner, soprano
Aram Tchobanian, tenor   •   Richard Holmes, bass
Other soloists to be announced


Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV 232

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


Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 7:30 pm

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin   •   Alban Gerhardt, cello


Golijov: New work for cello and orchestra
Brahms: Double Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5


Opéra Française de New York
FIAF, Le Skyroom, at 7:30 pm

Sharleen Joynt, soprano   •   Karim Sulayman, tenor
Marco Nistico, baritone   •   Benedicte Jourdois, piano


Offenbach Cabaret

Songs from La Vie Parisienne, Les Brigands, Orphée aux Enfer and others


Le Skyroom
French Institute Alliance Française
22 East 60th Street


Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, at 8:00 pm

Nelly Vuksic, Music Director


Works by Telemann and Mozart


The concert is free

Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn

Mendelssohn String Quartet
Bargemusic, Brooklyn, at 8:00 pm

Mendelssohn String Quartet:
Miriam Fried, Violin   •   Nicholas Mann, Violin
Daniel Panner, Viola   •   Marcy Rosen, Cello

With guest, Jonathan Biss, Piano


Haydn String Quartet No. 23 in f minor, Op. 20, No. 5, FHE No. 47, Hob. III:35
Bartók String Quartet No. 2
Elgar Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84


Tickets are $40 ($25 students)


The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 8:00 pm

Humperdinck : Hansel and Gretel

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
Christine Schäfer   •   Alice Coote   •   Rosalind Plowright
Philip Langridge   •   Alan Held

Sung in German with Met Titles in English

The New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, at 8:00 pm

Riccardo Muti, Conductor   •   Radu Lupu, Piano


Schumann: Piano Concerto
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6


Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
All Saints Episcopal Church, 8:00 pm

David Bernard, Conductor   •   Daphna Mor, Recorder
Other Soloists TBA


Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 “Italian”


All Saints Episcopal Church
230 East 60th Street


Vox Vocal Ensemble
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, at 8:00 pm

Vox Vocal Ensemble, George Steel, conductor


Treasures from the Sarum Rite

Robert Wylkinso: Salve Regina (à 9)

Works by John Sheppard:
Libera nos, Salva Nos. I & II
Jesu Salvator saeculi, redemptis
In manus tuas III
Spiritus Sanctus procedens I

Works by Thomas Tallis:
Euge coeli porta
Candidi facti sunt
Loquebantur variis linguis

John Taverner: Leroy Kyrie
Christopher Tye: In Pace


Ticket Price: $35

Church of St. Mary the Virgin
145 Wesst 46th Street


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