Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Friday April 27 - Sunday April 29. Friday (08:00 PM)
Sunday (02:30 PM)
Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts
This very special double-bill begins with Pagliacci, one of opera’s most powerful stories of the overwhelming jealousy and its lethal passion, which features the heartbreaking aria “Vesti la giubba.” Their special pairing will conclude with Orff’s celebration of life – Carmina Burana, in its premiere production by the New Orleans Opera. The award-winning New Orleans Ballet Theatre (2010 Big Easy awards for “Best Contemporary Choreography” and “Best Classical Performance”) will dance to this powerful rhythmic and passionate music, joining the combined choral forces of the New Orleans Opera Chorus, Loyola University Chorus and the New Orleans Vocal Arts Chorale (NOVA) to make this Carmina Burana unlike any one you have ever seen!
Pagliacci – In Italian with English supertitles
Carmina Burana – In Latin, Middle High German and Old Provençal with English supertitles
Nuts & Bolts Lecture
One hour prior to curtain:
Dr. Meg Frazier – Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music, Loyola University New Orleans & Artistic Director and Conductor, NOVA (New Orleans Vocal Arts Chorale)
Gregory Schramel – Artistic Director, New Orleans Ballet Theater
Marjorie Hardwick Schramel – Associate Director, New Orleans Ballet Theater