THE COLLEGIATE CHORALE
2011/2012 SEASON
MOÃSE ET PHARAON (ROSSINI)
conducted by James Bagwell
with James Morris, Kyle Ketelsen, Angela Meade, Eric Cutler, Marina Rebeka
November 30, 2011 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall
A CHILD OF OUR TIME (TIPPETT)
TE DEUM (BRUCKNER)
conducted by James Bagwell
with Nicole Cabell and John Relyea
February 3, 2012 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall
THE MIKADO (GILBERT AND SULLIVAN)
directed and conducted by Ted Sperling
with Kelli O’Hara, Jason Danieley, and Christopher Fitzgerald
April 10, 2012 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall
The Collegiate Chorale, led by music director James Bagwell, announces its 70th Anniversary Season, which will include Moïse et Pharaon featuring James Morris, Kyle Ketelsen, Angela Meade, Eric Cutler, and Marina Rebeka on November 30, 2011 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall; A Child of Our Time and Te Deum featuring Nicole Cabell and John Relyea on February 3, 2012 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall; and The Mikado featuring Kelli O’Hara, Jason Danieley, and Christopher Fitzgerald on April 10, 2012 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall.
Moïse et Pharaon
November 30, 2011 at 8pm at Carnegie Hall
This opera-in-concert presentation is Rossini’s enthralling three-act French-language setting – replete with romance, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and acts of God – of Moses and his brother Eliezer leading the Jews out of the land of Pharaoh and into freedom, with the help of plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. The story is impassioned and the music is gorgeous. Â Guest artists include James Morris, Kyle Ketelsen, Angela Meade, Eric Cutler, and Marina Rebeka, with the American Symphony Orchestra.
Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Bruckner’s Te Deum
February 3, 2012 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall
Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1941) is a unique oratorio, structured in three parts to emulate Handel’s Messiah and using traditional African-American spirituals in a form similar to Bach’s use of the chorale in his Passions, all with a decidedly twentieth-century musical language. The text of this stirring work reflects Tippett’s pacifism and belief that people contain both “shadow and light.” Soprano Nicole Cabell has performed this work to great critical acclaim and has made it a signature piece. She will be joined by John Relyea, bass-baritone. Paired with this riveting work will be the powerful Te Deum by Anton Bruckner.
The Mikado
April 10, 2012 at Carnegie Hall
One of the most frequently produced musical theatre pieces in history, The Mikado is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. Debuted by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on March 14, 1885, The Mikado was Gilbert and Sullivan’s ninth collaborative work. Set in Japan, the opera explores the exotic, macabre, and humorous while satirizing British politics and institutions in the fictionalized foreign land of Titipu. Featuring Kelli O’Hara, Jason Danieley, and Christopher Fitzgerald, the performance will be conducted by Ted Sperling.
Subscription tickets can be purchased by contacting The Chorale office at (646) 435-9465 or via the website: www.collegiatechorale.org.  Single tickets start at $20. Tickets to individual Carnegie Hall concerts may also be purchased through the Carnegie Hall Box Office 60 days in advance of each concert and on Carnegie Charge at (212) 247-7800 or www.carnegiehall.org. Single tickets for all concerts can be obtained by calling The Collegiate Chorale at (646) 202-9623 or by visiting www.collegiatechorale.org.
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The Collegiate Chorale will perform the following concerts with the Israel Philharmonic in July 2012.
July 8 – 15 : Bruckner Te Deum  and Bloch Sacred Service in Israel with Zubin Mehta
July 19, 21, 22: Verdi Requiem in Israel with Riccardo Muti
July 24: Bloch Sacred Service in Salzburg with Zubin Mehta
July 26: Bruckner Te Deum in Salzburg with Zubin Mehta
The mission of The Collegiate Chorale, led by Music Director James Bagwell, is to enrich its audiences through innovative programming and exceptional performances of a broad range of vocal music featuring a premier choral ensemble. Founded in 1941 by the legendary conductor Robert Shaw, The Chorale has established a preeminent reputation for its interpretations of the traditional choral repertoire, vocal works by American composers, and rarely heard operas-in-concert, as well as for commissions and premieres of new works by today’s most exciting creative artists. The many guest artists with whom The Chorale has performed in recent years include: Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn, Kelli O’Hara, Victoria Clark, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, and Deborah Voigt. Last season’s highlights included the critically acclaimed concert presentation of Kurt Weill’s Knickerbocker Holiday at Alice Tully Hall, as well as the first complete cast recording of that work. Soloists for that concert and CD included Victor Garber and Kelli O’Hara. In addition to The Chorale’s presentations, the chorus performed in five programs during the American Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-11 season, returned to Verbier in the summer of 2011, and will perform with the Israel Philharmonic in Salzburg and Israel in July 2012.
Music Director James Bagwell maintains an active schedule throughout the United States as a conductor of choral, operatic, and orchestral music. He has recently been named Principal Guest Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and is Director of the Music Program at Bard College. At Bard SummerScape he has led numerous theatrical works, most notably Copland’s The Tender Land, which received unanimous praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Opera News. He frequently appears as guest conductor for orchestras around the country and abroad, including the Jerusalem Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. He has also prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for performances with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Mostly Mozart Festival (broadcast nationally in 2006 on Live from Lincoln Center), all in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. He has trained choruses for a number of major American and international orchestras and worked with noted conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Louis Langrée, Leon Botstein, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Raymond Leppard, James Conlon, Jesús López-Cobos, Erich Kunzel, Leon Fleischer, and Robert Shaw.
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