Michael Morgan
Othalie Graham
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Michael Morgan, Music Director
GIUSSEPE VERDI
Overture from La Forza del Destino (1962)
MASON BATES
Mothership (2010)
GIUSSEPE
VERDI
"Ritorna vincitor!" from Aida (1871) with
Othalie Graham, soprano
RICHARD WAGNER
Immolation Scene, Gotterdammerung
(1876) with
Othalie Graham, soprano
"The Canadian soprano's timbre and power were thrilling."
~ Boston Globe
Our 25th Season opening celebrates two composer
bicentennials – Verdi and Wagner – and two bright lights on the
international music scene: innovative and energetic composer Mason Bates and
the OEBS debut of radiant soprano Othalie Graham. The concert opens with the
brooding and lyrical overture to Verdi’s opera about star-crossed lovers.
American composer, composer-in-residence at the Chicago and San Francisco
Symphonies and YouTube Symphony phenom Mason Bates’ exhilarating blend of
large-scale symphonic writing, electronic elements and improvisation are driven
by a heart-pounding beat in Mothership. Glamorous and powerful, Canadian
soprano Othalie Graham joins Maestro Morgan and the orchestra for two of
opera’s most heroic moments. “Ritorna vincitor!” from
Aida captures the title heroine’s anguish at being torn between
loyalty to her father, lover and homeland. The immolation scene from the final
opera of Wagner’s Ring Cycle is a musical and dramatic tour-de-force as
Brunhilde rides into the flames of Siegfried’s funeral pyre at the
apocalyptic end of the opera.
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