Baltimore's Charles Theatre is offering up the last four screenings of their 2009 Spring/Summer Opera Ballet Season.
You don't have to go beyond 21201's 1700 Block of N Charles Street to see some truly great performances.
Il Viaggio a Reims - Sunday July 5, 2009
at 11:45 AM
Il Viaggio a Reims is Rossini's last opera in the Italian language (all of his later works were in French). Commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Rheims in 1825, the work has been critically acclaimed as one of Rossini's finest compositions. It is a demanding work, requiring 14 soloists (three sopranos, one contralto, two tenors, four baritones, and four basses).
The uniqueness and audacity of the opera is compounded by its plot, which concerns a group of people who plan excitedly for a viaggio (journey) to the city of Reims that at the end never happens.
Swan Lake - Sunday July 12,2009
at 11:45 AM
Swan Lake was the first ballet set to the score of a symphonic composer. From around the time of the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1890s, scores for ballets were almost always written by composers known as "specialists" - composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time in vogue for ballet. Tchaikovsky studied the music of these "specialists", such as the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Czechoslovakian Léon Minkus, before setting to work on Swan Lake
Aida - Sunday July 19,2009
at 11:45 AM
Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. However, although Verdi did not attend, he was most dissatisfied with the fact that the audience consisted of invited dignitaries, politicians and critics, but no members of the general public. He therefore considered the Italian (and European) premiere, to be held at La Scala, Milan on 8 February the following year, and in which he was heavily involved at every stage, to be its real premiere.
Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes - Sunday July 26,2009
at 11:45 AM
Like the concept? Visit the Charles Theatre website to learn more about each screening. Tickets for this kind of special entertainment are as cheap as dirt in Baltimore 21201. Be there.
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