What better way to launch the 2019-20 season than to bring back the extraordinary Thomas Yu for what piano nerds refer to as Rocky 3 the sequel to last year’s Rocky 2? Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto is one of the most demanding and impressive works in the repertoire and the musical subject for the Oscar-winning film, “Shine,” starring Geoffrey Rush. Dvorak’s lyrical and ebullient 8th Symphony rounds out the concert.
Programme
TRUDEL – Birth
DVORAK – Symphony No. 8
RACHMANINOFF – Piano Concerto No. 3
Featuring
THOMAS YU, piano
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For this festive occasion, we are bringing back Karl Jenkins’ Stella Natalis which was such a success when we performed it six years ago. It will feature the same fantastic team of Michelle Todd, Jay Michalak and Cum Vino Cantus. This holiday concert also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve Suite and other seasonal surprises!
Programme
JENKINS – Stella Natalis
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Christmas Eve Suite
Featuring
MICHELLE TODD, Soprano
JAY MICHALAK, Trumpet
CUM VINO CANTUS, Michael Coburn, Artistic Director
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The Calgary Civic Symphony is joined by the Calgary Concert Opera Company for the first time in this program of some of the best known works of the Italian and German operatic repertoire. We start our celebration of the mighty Beethoven’s 250th birthday by closing this concert with the Overture and Finale of his lone opera, Fidelio.
Programme
MOZART – Don Giovanni Overture and Sextet Sola sola in buio loco; Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Act 2 Finale Chi mi frena in tal momento?
VERDI – Rigoletto Quartet Bella figlia dell’amore; Il Trovatore Anvil Chorus; La Traviata Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici; Nabucco Va, pensiero
PUCCINI – Tosca Te deum
STRAUSS – Der Rosenkavalier Presentation of the Rose and Trio Hab mir’s gelobt
BEETHOVEN – Fidelio Overture & Finale Heil Sei dem Tag
Featuring
CALGARY CONCERT OPERA COMPANY
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We continue our Beethoven birthday celebrations with his heroic 3rd Symphony—the “Eroica.” The Coimbra Piano Duo (Carmen Morin and Lana Henchell), Calgary’s award-winning piano duo team, play Poulenc’s brilliant and jovial Concerto for Two Pianos. The program opens with Arthur Bachmann’s musical tribute to Ted and Lola Rozsa, whose incredible generosity has contributed so much to Calgary’s music scene.
Programme
BACHMANN – Rozsa Overture
POULENC – Concerto for Two Pianos
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 3
Featuring
COIMBRA PIANO DUO
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Once again, we are delighted to showcase the winners from the 2020 Rotary Calgary Concerto Competition. Join us in celebrating and supporting these outstanding young artists!
Programme
BEETHOVEN – Egmont Overture, Op. 84
TBA – Concertos
Featuring
WINNERS of the 2020 Rotary C3
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