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Vanessa

Name: Vanessa
Start: 2025-08-03T18:30:00
Location: Williamstown Theatre Festival

Heartbeat Opera

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Samuel Barber is one of the most celebrated American composers of the twentieth century, and Vanessa was a hit upon arrival at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958 and won the Pulitzer. It could have remained in the canon as one of the great American operas of all time, but its unique brand of gothic creep and fiercely emotional music did not jive with the overly-academic tastes of the time, and over the following decades the piece receded into near-ob...

Program

Samuel Barber - Vanessa

Composer

Participants

Rebecca Steinberg

Trumpet

Jacob Ashworth

Conductor

Dan Schlosberg

Conductor

Mary Phillips

Vanessa

Joshua Jeremiah

Erika

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9 dates (17 Jul - 3 Aug)

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