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Guest conductor Craig Kier leads the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra and School of Music alumni, current students, and faculty in a performance of selections that celebrate the breadth of operatic composers and the stories they tell.

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Beginnings—Overtures to the New Year: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Love, mistaken identity, and humor are woven throughout The Barber of Seville, Rossini’s comic opera masterpiece. The Barber of Seville is considered one of the greatest opera buffa of all time, maintaining its popularity for over two hundred years.

Count Almaviva falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Rosina, the young ward of a grumpy and elderly Bartolo who intends to marry her and claim her dowry. Dressed in disguise, Almaviva tries to earn Rosina’s affection for who he really is, rather than for his money and status. Almaviva assumes multiple identities including a poor student, a drunken soldier, and a singing tutor and priest. With the help of his companion Figaro, Almaviva stops at nothing as he pursues Rosina through a series of comical hijinks and bait-and-switch facades. Eventually revealing his true identity, he manages to win Rosina’s heart and the pair evade the disgruntled Bartolo, with love and laughter triumphing in the end.

The Barber of Seville

Symphony Hall

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

One chance meeting can change people's lives forever.  When Rodolfo hears a knock at his door on Christmas Eve, opera's greatest love story is launched!  Puccini's soaring, aching melodies perfectly capture the emotion of every moment, from the exhilaration of young love at first sight to the story's unforgettable and heartbreaking conclusion.  The unbridled passion of this ageless tale has made it a favorite of audiences for over a century.

La Bohème

Colonial Theatre

Mozart’s beloved classic, The Magic Flute, is a fairytale of darkness and light, which explores the journey in search of truth and reason, love and enlightenment.

As the action unfolds, Tamino, a prince lost in a foreign land, is pursued by a terrifying monster. He is rescued by three mysterious ladies, who kill the monster and give Tamino a picture of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he falls instantly in love. They tell him that Pamina has been captured by the powerful and evil Sarastro, and Tamino vows to rescue her.

With the gift of a magic flute and magic bells, as well as the light-hearted assistance of the bird-catcher, Papageno, Tamino sets off on his dangerous quest. However, he soon discovers that nothing, not even Day and Night, is quite as it first appears.

The Magic Flute

POP presents the U.S. premiere production of a rare Vivaldi opera based on the ninth Labor of Hercules, where Hercules is tasked with capturing the sword of Antiope, the queen of the Amazons. Recently rediscovered hiding in libraries in Münster, Paris, and Turino, Ercole su’l Termodonte is Vivaldi’s 16th opera, written in 1723 and premiered in Rome, during the Pope’s ban on women in opera. The original cast featured seven castrati (many en travesti) and one tenor. POP will employ a mix of countertenors, mezzos, tenors, and sopranos performing these roles with a period orchestra. The Ebell Club will be transformed into a baroque opera house, complete with box seating. This is not just an opera, but an experience not to be missed.

Véronique Filloux

Mezzo-soprano

Events

Feb 23, 2024

Beginnings—Overtures to the New Year: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON · University of Maryland School of Music

Jan 27 - Feb 4, 2024

The Barber of Seville · Arizona Opera

Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2023

La Bohème · Berkshire Opera Festival

7 - 16 Apr, 2023

The Magic Flute · Arizona Opera

6 - 21 Jan, 2023

Ercole su’l Termodonte · Pacific Opera Project

Future and recently performed repertoire

Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Rossini

Arizona Opera

Singer in Rodelinda by Handel

University of Maryland School of Music

Singer in Ariodante by Handel

University of Maryland School of Music

Martesia in Ercole su'l Termodonte by Vivaldi

Pacific Opera Project

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