FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 18, 2010
CONTACT: Julia Sheridan, 503-295-3508
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PORTLAND OPERA’S
“Would you like an aria with those fries?”
BROWN BAG SERIES
MARCH TOPIC:
Leonard Bernstein's
TROUBLE IN TAHITI
&
Two One-Act MONTEVERDI Works
IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE
(The Dance of the Ungrateful Women)
IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA
(The Battle of Tancredi and Clorinda)
The yearly production—now at the Newmark Theatre—by the young Portland Opera Studio Artists has quickly become very popular. Portland Opera Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor Robert Ainsley and the Portland Opera Studio Artists, will explore the of the music and history behind behind this season’s production of a double-bill of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and two, one-act Monteverdi works. The program includes musical highlights from the Studio Artists.
Trouble in Tahiti opens March 26 at Keller Auditorium with additional performances March 28, April 1, 2. For more information, visit www.portlandopera.org.