Sedona Performing Arts Center
995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road, 86336
The Met Live in HD
Jacques Offenbach’s
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffman)
Tickets: $25 reserved, $20 general admission, students 1/2 price at the door and on line at
www.ChamberMusicSedona.org or by phone 928.204.2415
Approximate running time 3 hrs. 25 min.
Pre-opera talk with Russell Fox
from 12:45-1:30pm free to all ticket holders.
Vittorio Grigolo and Matthew Polenzani take turns playing the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses, including Hibla Gerzmava, Susanna Phillips, Erin Morley, Audrey Luna, Christine Rice, and Elena Maximova. Thomas Hampson sings the Four Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling score.
Vittorio Grigolo as Hoffmann “soars” with “high notes [that] are strong and clear… Erin Morley was a remarkable Olympia, bringing rounded tone, dynamic variety and dramatic flair” to the role. Hibla Gerzmava sang Antonia “with a soprano that was soft-grained yet penetrating… The elegant mezzo Kate Lindsey was Hoffmann’s friend Nicklausse, her voice silvery with a hint of cream…” Conductor Yves Abel “led a graceful, agile orchestral performance.” (New York Times)
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Sunday, February 8 @ 2:30pm
St. John Vianney Church
180 St. John Vianney Lane, 86336
The Mexican Brass
Quintet
aka METALES M5
Tickets: $40 reserved, $20 general admission, students 1/2 price at the door and on line at
www.ChamberMusicSedona.org or by phone 928.204.2415
Pre-concert talk with Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal Trombonist (1974-2006)
from 1:15-1:55pm in the Don Bosco Room free to all ticket holders
Metales M5 is Mexico’s leading brass quintet and since its founding in 2005 in Morelia, Michoacán, the five gentlemen have been playing a wide variety of music without regard to genre: Baroque and contemporary music, opera and blues, pop, movie soundtracks and folk music from Spain, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Combining their skills at fine classical chamber music, non-stop interaction with the audience, inborn showmanship and their inimitable Latin American charm, M5 concerts are unique musical theatrical concert experiences.
“M5 is the best thing to come out of Mexico since tequila! Their sense of style, showmanship, and virtuosity is a rare treat not to be missed.”
MARTIN HACKLEMAN -Canadian Brass
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