BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20060402T100000 RDATE:20060402T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20061029T090000 RDATE:20061029T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060313 LOCATION:Agnes Flanagan Chapel SUMMARY:Verdi's Orietta DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 12\, 7 p.m. Agnes Flanagan Chapel A concert version of Giuseppe Verdi's Orietta di Lesbo to the music of Joan of Arc will be performed in concert version with the alternate libretto on the G reek story of Orietta di Lesbo\, a libretto unheard since the 1850s in It aly. The libretto was used due to Papal censorship in Italy at the time. Members of the Oregon Repertory Singers\, the Lewis &\; Clark College Choir and other individuals will join with a regional orchestra and solo ists from two countries\, including internationally traveled opera singer Ioanna Sfekas-Karvelas. soprano from Lesvos\, Greece\, baritone Christop her Wells from the San Francisco Opera and tenor Lance Ferguson of Linfie ld College. Dr. George Skipworth will conduct. A pre-concert lecture wil l be offered in the hour before the performance by Dr. Aaron Beck\, and sh e will narrate the lecture-performance scene by scene. The Portland perf ormance is a prelude to a Lewis &\; Clark sponsored three week symphon ic/choral/operatic festival to be held on the island of Lesvos in June\, 2006 entitled The Aegean Verdi Festival\, in which orchestra members\, ch oruses and soloists will attend from several nations. A symphonic concert featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade\, Verdi's Requiem and the Oriet ta di Lesbo will be performed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Sunday\, March 12\, 7 p.m.
Agnes
Flanagan Chapel
A concert version of Giuseppe Verdi's Oriet
ta di Lesbo to the music of Joan of Arc will be performed in concert vers
ion with the alternate libretto on the Greek story of Orietta di Lesbo\,
a libretto unheard since the 1850s in Italy. The libretto was used due to
Papal censorship in Italy at the time.
Members of the Orego
n Repertory Singers\, the Lewis &\; Clark College Choir and other indi
viduals will join with a regional orchestra and soloists from two countri
es\, including internationally traveled opera singer Ioanna Sfekas-Karvel
as. soprano from Lesvos\, Greece\, baritone Christopher Wells from the Sa
n Francisco Opera and tenor Lance Ferguson of Linfield College. Dr. Georg
e Skipworth will conduct.
A pre-concert lecture will be offe
red in the hour before the performance by Dr. Aaron Beck\, and she will na
rrate the lecture-performance scene by scene.
The Portland p
erformance is a prelude to a Lewis &\; Clark sponsored three week symp
honic/choral/operatic festival to be held on the island of Lesvos in June
\, 2006 entitled The Aegean Verdi Festival\, in which orchestra members\,
choruses and soloists will attend from several nations. A symphonic conc
ert featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade\, Verdi's Requiem and the Or
ietta di Lesbo will be performed.