Tonight at the Highland Center for the Arts, soloists will be joining the VPO for "Gems of Opera and Song." If you can't make it to tonight's concert, you'll have a second chance to see it Sunday at 2 PM at the historic Barre Opera House.
On the program will be the overture to Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha, composed in 1911 and first performed in 1972. Though Joplin was known for his ragtime music, he made clear that this composition was not a "ragtime" piece, but rather a "serious opera in the European tradition."
The program continues with two versions of the Bamboula, a West Indian dance. Louis Moreau Gottschalk's 1848 piano version will be performed by pianist Stephen Brown. The orchestra will also perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's version dating from 1910.
After the intermission, the music of Italian opera takes over with Pietro Mascagni's 1890 prelude to Cavalleria rusticana, and music and arias from Umberto Giordano's 1896 opera Andrea Chenier. Singers include Elizabeth Perryman, soprano; Adam Laurence Herskowitz, tenor; and Michel Kabay, baritone.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $5 students. Tickets will be available online or at the door.
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