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Jewish Futures 2024 Conference
PANELIST
KVELLING OR KVETCHING: MAKING YIDDISH ART
November 24, 2024
What future do we want to create together? How can the past and presentation of memory help to inform our present? How do we share our stories to guide our futures?
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Opera America Leadership Intensive
INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANT
2025 COHORT
January 31-February 9, 2025
The Leadership Intensive, OPERA America’s signature leadership development initiative, is a yearlong program for rising leaders in opera administration.
Chosen from a competitive pool of applicants, each annual cohort convenes at our National Opera Center for a week of seminars and trainings to advance their careers and establish strong professional connections. Throughout the subsequent year, participants come together at the annual conference and virtually to assess their growth and goals with expert faculty.
Established in 2012, the program’s alumni now lead 10 percent of our Professional Company Members.
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Die Walküre
BRÜNNHILDE
EDMONTON OPERA
June 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, & 13, 2025
Embark on the next chapter of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle with Die Walküre continuing the saga introduced in Das Rheingold. This new production, arranged by Jonathan Dove, pushes the boundaries of opera, reaching new heights of operatic innovation in Edmonton.
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Past Events
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
SOPRANO SOLOIST
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
MAY 11-12, 2024
The BPO joins the international observance of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s powerful masterwork that includes the “Ode to Joy.” Its message of unity and love continues to hearten millions around the world.
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Nikki Chooi, violin
Jaclyn Grossman, soprano
Hannah Shea, alto
John Tiranno, tenor
Lester Lynch, bass
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
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Das Rheingold
FREIA
EDMONTON OPERA
MAY 28, 29, 31, JUNE 1, 2024
Introducing Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle to Edmonton stages for the first time ever! Edmonton Opera presents Das Rheingold, the first opera of the 4 part epic saga in May 2024 to be followed in subsequent seasons by the other three operas. Experience the Jonathan Dove reduced version, defined as “Wagner re-imagined,” critically acclaimed as “imaginatively fresh” and “capturing the mighty essence of Wagner’s masterpiece.”
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Postcards: Concert
YIDDISH NARRATOR & SOPRANO
FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND
JULY 24, 2024, 1:30PM
Music reaches places deep within us. Inspired by family postcards dating from the Russian Revolution through WWII, Alan Stein has created artwork revealing real and imagined experiences in his grandparent’s lives. This concert features the music that came from the horrors of World War II and remains relevant today.
Andrea Ludwig - soprano
Daniel Vnukowski- piano
Moshe Hammer - violin
James Campbell - clarinet
Jaclyn Grossman, Yiddish narration & soprano
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Postcards: Concert
YIDDISH NARRATOR & SOPRANO
FESTIVAL OF THE SOUND
JULY 9, 2024, 7:00PM
Alan Stein was inspired by recently translated messages on old family postcards dating from the Russian Revolution through WWII to create a series of charcoal drawings and paintings highlighting actual and imagined events from his grandparent’s lives. These images, old family photographs, and reproductions of the postcards themselves, will be projected and accompanied by heartwarming Yiddish songs, profoundly moving children’s poems, and include music by Fritz Kreisler and Kurt Weill.
Andrea Ludwig - soprano
Daniel Vnukowski- piano
Moshe Hammer - violin
James Campbell - clarinet
Jaclyn Grossman, Yiddish narration & soprano
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Pagliacci
NEDDA
OPERA KELOWNA
August 23, 24, 2024
Opera Kelowna presents a double bill of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi imagined as a traveling troupe of players coming to Kelowna in the early 1930s. Sung in Italian, with projected English translations. Performed with live orchestral ensemble.
Rosemary Thomson - Conductor
Glynis Leyshonm - Director
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Gianni Schicchi
NELLA
OPERA KELOWNA
August 23, 24, 2024
Opera Kelowna presents a double bill of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi imagined as a traveling troupe of players coming to Kelowna in the early 1930s. Sung in Italian, with projected English translations. Performed with live orchestral ensemble.
Rosemary Thomson - Conductor
Glynis Leyshonm - Director
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