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Pops I: Another Opening, Another Show
7:30 PM, Saturday, November 19, 2011
Jackson Convention Complex
With Cole Porter’s sparkling score for Kiss Me Kate and a medley of favorites from Porgy & Bess—the most-performed American opera—featuring vocalists Sherri Seiden and Daniel Narducci, it’s Curtain Up on a season of toe-tappin’ pleasure.
The audience will be seated at round tables, with concessions available at the concert. Advance food/wine orders are also possible (by November 15). Click here for all the details.
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Program
George Gershwin: Overture to Girl Crazy
George Gershwin: Selections from Porgy and Bess
Introduction
Summertime
A Woman is a Sometime Thing
My Man’s Gone Now
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
Bess, You is My Woman Now
It Ain’t Necessarily So
I Loves You Porgy
There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin Soon
Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way
Intermission
Cole Porter: Selections from Anything Goes
Anything Goes
I Get a Kick Out of You
Cole Porter: Be a Clown from The Pirate
Cole Porter: Selections from DuBarry was a Lady
Well Did You Evah
Friendship
Cole Porter: Selections from Kiss Me, Kate
Another Openin’, Another Show
We Open in Venice
So In Love
Were That Thine Special Face
Where is the Life That Late I Led
Why Can’t You Behave
Too Darn Hot
Another Openin’, Another Show
Sherri Seiden
Soprano Sherri Seiden's dazzling performances show that she is equally at home in concert, opera and musical theater. Her busy schedule during the past year has included her Carnegie Hall debut as soprano soloist both in the Brahms and Rutter Requiems with John Rutter, conductor. She also sang with the Liaoning Symphony in Shenyang, China, with Peter McCoppin conducting. In Atlanta, she took on the role of Stella in Street Car Named Desire with Capitol City Opera, as well as singing the Bach Cantatas #51 and #84 with New Trinity Baroque. Traveling to Ontario, Canada, she appeared on stage New Year's Day, 2007, as soprano soloist with Attila Glatz Concerts. This Spring, she was soloist with the Elysium Chamber Orchestra in Atlanta, singing Mozart's Requiem, and in the summer she plans to record a CD with the Bratislava Symphony, Peter McCoppin, conducting. Her plans for Fall include a debut in Jake Heggies' Statue of Venus, with Capitol City Opera.
This first place winner of the Regional Metropolitan Opera competition made her debut as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Florida's Treasure Coast Opera in March 2005. She then produced and performed solo concerts throughout the summer in Atlanta, Georgia. In the fall of 2005, Ms. Seiden debuted with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera in a new production as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo. In addition, she performed a series of holiday concerts with both the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic with Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor.
During her career, Ms. Seiden has had the privilege to perform solo at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; she was featured as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah at the Wang Center in Boston, and sang with the Toronto Festival Orchestra such excerpts as “Queen of the Night” from The Magic Flute, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Ms. Seiden has also had the opportunity to perform the role of Christine in the European Tour of The Phantom of the Opera, and was in the long running production of Beauty and the Beast at the Schubert Theater in Los Angeles, also appearing in the internationally-aired Disney Spectacular commercial for that show. She performed in an Evening of Rogers & Hammerstein with the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra in Ontario, Canada, directed by Boris Brott.
Ms. Seiden earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory and went on to study at the Royal Acad emy of Dramatic Art in London. She also studied with Professor Rudolf Knoll at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She completed a post-graduate program with the University of Toronto’s Opera Division.
Daniel Narducci
Classic American Baritone Daniel Narducci is a multi-faceted artist whose talents have been captured through live stage presentations, recordings, documentaries, and television. Since his professional debut with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Erich Kunzel, Mr. Narducci has appeared with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Naples Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the Detroit Symphony. He has appeared regularly as a guest artist at many popular summer music venues throughout North America, including the Wolf Trap, Ravinia, Blossom, Saratoga, and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festivals.
Mr. Narducci’s television appearances have reached audiences worldwide. His historic performance with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing was filmed for nationwide broadcast in China. Mr. Narducci’s other television appearances include co-starring with Frederica von Stade and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in a program broadcast internationally by PBS entitled Pops at the Phil: A Century of Broadway. He also appeared with Judy Kaye in the BBC television documentary Kurt Weill in America: I’m a Stranger Here Myself.
On the operatic stage, Daniel Narducci’s recent appearances include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Canton Symphony, Silvio in I Pagliacci with Opera Santa Barbara, Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo Et Juliette with the Cleveland Opera, and Escamillo in Carmen with the Indianapolis Opera. He has portrayed Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La Bohème, Figaro in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte, and Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amorewith the opera companies of Washington, New Orleans, Central City, Palm Beach, Kentucky, Nashville, Fresno, and Hawaii.
Daniel Narducci’s combined talents have been seen on operetta and musical theatre stages throughout North America and Europe. He made his New York City debut at Alice Tully Hall with the Collegiate Chorale under the direction of Robert Bass in An Evening of American Operetta. Mr. Narducci played the role of Lancelot during two national tours of Camelot,most notably opposite Robert Goulet’s King Arthur, and portrayed Old Deuteronomy in the 10th anniversary production of Cats in Hamburg, Germany. In Cleveland Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd, he appeared as Anthony Hope. Mr. Narducci’s additional credits include Jim Kenyon in Rose Mariewith the Central City Opera, Count Danilo in The Merry Widowwith the Chautauqua Opera and Cincinnati Symphony, and Strephon in Cleveland Opera’s production of Iolanthe.
An increasingly active recording artist, Daniel Narducci created the role of Captain Hook on the world premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan. This complete version of the musical co-stars Linda Eder, and was released by Koch International Records. He will be entering the studio to record the songs of Rudolf Friml on a solo CD to be released by Koch International Records. Mr. Narducci’s debut recording, Timeless Broadway, appears on the Archaeus Records label, and a solo Christmas CD entitled ChristmasOnce More, a collection of classical and traditional songs, is his most recent release. During the 2008-2009 season he was heard in recital in over 30 cities throughout the U.S., in addition to debuts with the Dallas Symphony and the Hartford Symphony. Daniel Narducci is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music.