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WCPE Arts Calendar: updated 4/28/13
- Roanoke Island Festival Park
Center for History, Education and the Arts
Happening now
1 Festival Park, Manteo
INFO: 252.475.1500; roanokeisland.com
- North Carolina Museum of Art
Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum
Through February 2014
West Building, various galleries, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh
INFO: NCartmuseum.org
In West Building the Museum presents a series of magnificent loans selected by NCMA Curator of European Art David Steel from the Chrysler Museum in Virginia.
- Bel Canto Company
Headed Home
Monday, April 29, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Christ United Methodist Church, Greensboro
INFO: belcantocompany.com
Celebrate our home state with Greensboro: A Bicentennial Cantata, composed by Eddie Bass with texts by North Carolina poet laureate Fred Chappell, and an eclectic program of music featuring a number of other NC composers.
- Duke Music
Free! Encounters: with the music of our time presents WET INK ENSEMBLE & guests
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8 pm
Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University
Info: 919.660.3333; music.duke.edu
Film and Music Collaborations Concert: New collaborations by Duke graduate student composers Vladimir Smirnoff, David K. Garner, and D. Edward Davis with film/media artists Peter Lisignoli, Marika Borgeson, and Lisa McCarty. Also, new works by Duke graduate student composers Bryan Christian and Vladimir Smirnoff.
- North Carolina Symphony
Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 8 pm: Lee Auditorium, Southern Pines
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 12 pm: Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh
Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8 pm: Kenan Auditorium, Wilmington
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 7:30 pm: New Bern Riverfront Convention Center
INFO: 919.733.2750; ncsymphony.org
- North Carolina Opera
Aida
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 8 pm: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 3 pm: Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh
INFO: ncopera.org
Wagner is not the only opera genius turning 200 in 2013. We also commemorate the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi with two performances of his biggest operatic work, Aida, a sensational tale of war, romance, and intrigue that spans the gates of Thebes and the banks of the Nile. In the Old Kingdom of Egypt, a military commander—the unrequited love of the Pharaoh’s daughter—falls for an Ethiopian slave, forging a deadly love triangle. Aida bursts with all of the passion and conflict that make the operas of Verdi such enduring crowd-pleasers. This staging spotlights the dazzling voices of Issachah Savage, Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (the star of Carmen last season), and international stage sensation Angela Brown, the expert Verdi heroine who caused The New York Times to sigh, “At last . . . an Aida.”
- Choral Society of Durham
Spring Concert
Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8 pm
Duke Chapel, Durham
INFO: choral-society.org
Celebrate the fairest season with the Choral Society of Durham, presenting its first-ever performance of Benjamin Britten’s *Spring Symphony*, along with “Spring,” the opening section of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio *The Seasons*, one of Haydn’s last works.
BONUS: Professor Philip Rupprecht of the Duke University Music Department will provide a free pre-concert lecture on the *Spring Symphony* at 7:15 in 0014 Westbrook, on the bottom level of the the new Divinity School Building next to the Chapel.
- Women’s Voices Chorus
The Foibles of Fauna
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 3 pm
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 227 Rosemary St., Chapel Hill
INFO: womensvoiceschorus.org
This program of music about animals has roots in Africa, Argentina, Japan, and Mexico mingled with favorites from the European and American traditions, including songs by WVC Artistic Director Allan Friedman.
- North Carolina Symphony
Rite of Spring Centennial
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8 pm: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
Friday & Saturday, May 17 & 18, 2013 at 8 pm: Meymandi Concert Hall
INFO: 919.733.2750; ncsymphony.org
- North Carolina Symphony
Summerfest Opening Night: Brahms’ Symphony No. 2
Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Booth Amphitheatre, Cary
INFO: 919.733.2750; ncsymphony.org
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor & Summerfest Artistic Director. Brahms’ masterful Symphony No. 2 in D Major is the finale to the concert, which opens with three pieces performed by the orchestra with the addition of citizen musicians – Hérold’s Zampa Overture, Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Song Suite, and Sibelius’ Finlandia. The addition of the citizen musicians will nearly double the orchestra’s size for this concert.
- Ciompi Quartet Presents
A Musical Offering
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Kirby Horton Hall at Sarah P. Duke Gardens
INFO: 919.684.4444; tickets.duke.edu
The Ciompi Quartet Presents 2013 Summer Series will take place on three Tuesday evenings. Each concert will feature a member of the Ciompi Quartet joined by guest artists. On May 28, Eric Pritchard will be joined by Rebecca Troxler, flute; Elaine Funero, harpsichord; and Stephanie Vial, cello to perform Bach’s Musical Offering. The evening will begin with an introductory talk describing the history and details of the work.
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