Carmina Burana and Rite of Spring

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In celebration of Redwood Symphony's 30th season, two enduring classics of ritual and ceremony will share a single program: Stravinsky's revolutionary, epochal Rite of Spring and Orff's rousing Carmina Burana, presented with supertitles.
For this anniversary concert, Masterworks Chorale and Peninsula Girls Chorus will join the orchestra in Carmina Burana, one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire and a spectacle for all the senses.
Soloists for Carmina will be soprano Shawnette Sulker, tenor Chester Pidduck and baritone Michael Taylor. Sulker has been a soloist with the San Francisco Opera, Mark Morris Dance Group, American Bach Soloists, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Opera Naples and the Natchez Opera Festival, to name a few. Pidduck was a featured soloist with San Francisco Symphony in its performance of Carmina Burana and has performed three roles for SF Opera. Taylor has been a principal soloist with the San Francisco Opera Center, Opera San Jose, Sacramento Opera, West Bay Opera and San Francisco Symphony as well as a vocal soloist with the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose Ballet companies.
The Rite of Spring's premiere in 1913 Paris instigated the most famous riot in musical history. This stemmed not only from the scandalous nature of the story, but also because this work is one of the greatest musical masterpieces. It sparked a musical revolution that is still being felt 100 years later. Maestro Kujawsky will explain in his pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.
children under 18, accompanied by an adult, are admitted free
ample, free parking

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