Christmas Songs.

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

New York City Opera Presents Samuel Barber's
Antony and Cleopatra
at Carnegie Hall
Starring Lauren Flanigan & Teddy Tahu Rhodes
January 15 & 16, 2009
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(New York, NY, November 24, 2008) New York City Opera is proud to present the company premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra in concert on January 15 and 16, 2009 at 8 PM in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Soprano Lauren Flanigan sings the role of Cleopatra opposite baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, in his New York City Opera debut, as Antony. The cast includes rising tenor Simon O’Neill as Caesar and City Opera favorites David Pittsinger as Enobarbus, Sandra Piques Eddy as Charmian and Laura Vlasak Nolen as Iras. City Opera Music Director George Manahan will conduct. The company’s celebration of Samuel Barber’s upcoming centennial will also include a Symposium on Antony and Cleopatra on Saturday, January 10, co-presented by and taking place at Miller Theatre at Columbia University, which will feature City Opera soprano Elizabeth Futral in a unique recital of musical depictions and evocations of Cleopatra.

“By presenting this masterpiece, New York City Opera is continuing its tradition of championing important 20th-century American repertoire. We hope to spark new and lasting interest in Antony and Cleopatra, as we have done for other rarely performed American works including Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning opera Vanessa, which we presented last season,” says Music Director George Manahan.

Ticket Information
CONCERT: Thursday, January 15 and Friday, January 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
Tickets: $25 - $130 | 212-247-7800 | www.carnegiehall.org

[southendmd]

Are you going to go, John?

Maybe Meryl could arrange an introduction...

[Jeff Wrangler]

Barihunk is in the urban dictionary:  barihunk - 1 definition - A handsome or pretty baritone. Especially, but not exclusively, one who removes his shirt for the sake of opera.

    

Is there a comparable word for a handsome tenor? 

[southendmd]

   

Is there a comparable word for a handsome tenor? 

I've heard "hunkentenor", but you could make up your own.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I've heard "hunkentenor", but you could make up your own.

I suppose that would work. It sounds a little like heldentenor. 

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Are you going to go, John?

Maybe Meryl could arrange an introduction...

Thanks to the amazing, magical, musical Meryl--Yes!!!!

We (with one of Meryl's Musical Buds) went to the Full Rehersal at Carnegie Hall this afternoon!

Look!



Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Teddy Tahu Tuesday (T3!)

Teddy Tahu Rhodes
as Antony
in Samuel Barbour's
Antony and Cleopatra

Carnegie Hall
57th and Seventh Avenue
(and environs)

1:45 - 5:00 PM
39 Degrees

15 images



1  (Take a left on Fifth and 57th..that's the Giant Snowflake above the intersection....)





2  (Walking West on 57th...that's the big red '9' by the graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff....)




3  (...in front of the 'Ski-Slope' Building, 1974....you can see the 'Snowflake' on the right....)




4  (...Continuing West, just past Sixth Ave...yes, that's where the pianos are....)




5  (...Carnegie Hall...."Practice, practice, practice!"....)




6  (....Samuel Barbour's 'Antony and Cleopatra'....)




7  (....Ahem! 'Cleopatra' is one of Meryl's colleagues....Meryl has connections in the HIGHEST places, 'Asps a speciality'....)




8  (....Meryl and her Music Bud....and I am given warning NOT to use the iPhone....oops!)





9  (....Very Illegal, but making cub-photographer Jimmy Olsen proud....)




10  (....Did I say Jimmy Olsen? It's Spiderman!....Carnegie Hall was built in 1891....)




11  (....I LOVE this interior....)




(....And then the opera begins....Sorry, Joke! I wish!!....)




12  (....the full rehersal begins...concert format, street clothing....
       Lauren Flanigan as Cleopatra on the left, Teddy sadly hidden, way back....he's really tall, if you didn't know that!...)




13  (....and we were out back on the street....Teddy was quite good--and ok, he's gorgeous
          and amazingly tall --did I say that yet?--rangy, with a 'default' pose of 
          'wide-stance' virility that would make Larry Craig faint (and did I say that?? )
          Seriously, Teddy was very, very good, and I am so happy to have heard him.
          Lauren Flanigan was the star, truly, and Simon O'Neill (a tenor) as Caesar was terrific....)
          And we all agreed that the Samuel Barbour score was lush, really beautiful.
         Thank you so much, Meryl! Sorry about the photo below--Jimmy Olsen says I blew it!




14  (....Just walking at 57th and Park Avenue, then towards home....)




15  (....Finis!)

[Meryl]

WOW, now that's a rehearsal report!  Thanks, Jimmy John!   

It was such fun being able to give you the gift of Teddy.  He is gorgeous, eh?  Sounds pretty good, too.  L and I had a great meal at Rue 57; we'll have to go back sometime so you can get your steak.  The screening of "Revolutionary Road" proved to be excellent, too.  All in all, a very good day's play! 

[Ellemeno]

Wow, neato cool!

Once I was walking down 57th when I was about maybe 11, and my father and I watched a big pane of glass come flying out of that 9 building and tumble through the air til it landed in the street in front of a taxi.  No one was hurt.  Saw the whole thing.

[Meryl]

Wow, neato cool!

Once I was walking down 57th when I was about maybe 11, and my father and I watched a big pane of glass come flying out of that 9 building and tumble through the air til it landed in the street in front of a taxi.  No one was hurt.  Saw the whole thing.

 

That's one NY sight I hope none of us sees soon!  Glad you survived to tell it to the Brokies.    

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

That's one NY sight I hope none of us sees soon!  Glad you survived to tell it to the Brokies.    

Ditto. Whew!

(Watched a window fall out on 65th and Third Avenue about ten years ago. It hit smack in the middle of the intersection, and, thankfully, no one was hurt. Very unsettling, though....)