CAPE ANN SYMPHONY PRESENTS ORCHESTRAL OPERA GEMS ON SATURDAY, MAY 19

THE 66h  SEASON

Yoichi Udagawa, Music Director

CAPE ANN SYMPHONY PRESENTS

ORCHESTRAL OPERA GEMS

ON SATURDAY, MAY 19

Passionate Works from the World of Opera  by Composers:

Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Bizet, Weber, Tchaikovsky, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Ponchielli,

Close 66th Concert Season

Cape Ann Symphony wraps up the orchestra’s 66th Concert Season on Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm at the Manchester-Essex High School Auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA with Orchestral Opera Gems, a program featuring romantic and stirring works from the world of opera. Cape Ann Symphony celebrates orchestral masterpieces from renown and beloved operas byWagner, Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Ponchielli, Weber, Tchaikovsky, and Bizet. Accordingto Cape Ann Symphony Conductor and Music Director Yoichi Udagawa, “The May concert features some of the most passionate and incredible music written for orchestra from the world of opera. It’s gorgeous music, and the musicians of the orchestra and I can’t wait to present it to our audiences!” The May concert program includes Leoncavallo’s  Intermezzo from I Pagliacci; Tchaikovsky’s  Polonaise fromOnegin; Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana; Puccini’s  Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut; Ponchielli’s  Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda ; Verdi’s Prelude to Act 3 from La Traviata; Bizet’s  Carmen Suite No. 1; Weber’s Overture to Oberon; and Wagner’s Meistersinger  Overture  and  Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmenrung. Cape Ann Symphony presents Orchestral Opera Gems on Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm at the Manchester-Essex High School Auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. For tickets and information, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org.

Photos by Jeph Ellis