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Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Roy Thomson Hall
Tickets $155 - $75
416-872-4255 or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office
www.roythomson.com
/ www.masseyhall.com
Bravissimo! The Greatest Hits of
Opera! is a dazzling performance of beloved arias,
duets and overtures from the world’s most popular operas. Opera
aficionados and newcomers to the world of opera enthusiastically
embraced this innovative opera extravaganza last year as it premiered
in Toronto’s acoustically perfect Roy Thomson Hall. This year
Bravissimo! returns to Toronto, followed by a debut
performance in the renowned Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in
Chicago.
Featuring an all-star international cast, Bravissimo!
offers opera lovers an afternoon of irresistible melodies
from such favourites as Carmen, Madame Butterfly,
The Barber of Seville, Samson and Delilah,
La Bohéme, The Pearl Fishers and many more. Leading
this stellar cast will be the famous Italian Maestro, Giovanni
Reggioli, with Japanese star soprano Akiko Nakajima,
star mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera from Spain,
an exciting new tenor, Darío Schmunck, from Argentina,
and Canada’s own prominent tenor, Marc Hervieux.
Completing this impressive line up of international singers will
be a young and already leading baritone, Lucas Meachem,
from the United States. To complement the cast will be Narrator
Rick Phillips, a well-known Canadian broadcaster,
writer and lecturer in the world of opera.
"Elegant phrasing, intense, eloquent, disciplined, incandescent"
are but a few of the words used to describe the conducting of the
young Italian maestro, Giovanni Reggioli. Throughout
his impressive career he has led many world-acclaimed orchestras,
worked with celebrated conductors including Zubin Mehta, Riccardo
Chailly and Bruno Bartoletti, conducted Washington’s "Operalia Gala"
featuring Placido Domingo, as well as the Washington Opera Gala,
televised for PBS, working alongside Valery Gergiev. For
Bravissimo! Maestro Reggioli will be conducting the 75-piece
Opera Canada Symphony in Toronto and in Chicago a 75-piece orchestra
assembled from the Chicago Philharmonic, featuring members of Lyric
Opera’s orchestra.
For artist bios and more information, please visit
www.glatzconcerts.com.
Co-presented with Attila Glatz Concert Productions
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