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Vince
11/5/2009 6:00 PM at New York City Opera Celebrates David H. Koch Theater (formerly the NYS Theater) at Lincoln Center
West 63rd St & Columbus Avenue, New York, New York 10023
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New York City Opera celebrates its return to the stage of the renovated David H. Koch Theater with an opening night gala on Thursday, November 5, 2009, featuring a program of all-American music entitled American Voices.
American Voices, a concert of beloved selections from American opera and musical theater. The evening will highlight City Opera’s founding commitment to young American artists and its history of launching the careers of some of the finest singers in the world. Past City Opera artists, including Amy Burton, Joyce Castle, Anna Christy, Joyce DiDonato, Lauren Flanigan, Anthony Dean Griffey, Marc Kudisch, Samuel Ramey, and maestros George Manahan and Julius Rudel, will perform, along with debut guests Measha Brueggergosman, Talise Trevigne, and Kelley O’Connor. The program will feature the New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus. <P>
"City Opera’s loyal fans have supported the company very generously for the last two years," said David H. Koch, "and they, more than anyone, will be overjoyed to see them performing again at full strength." Mr. Koch continued, "Having visited the theater during the height of its renovation, I can verify that an extraordinary amount of work is being done to improve it, and that the finished results will be magnificent."
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The concert program will feature selections including Stravinsky’s Fanfare for a New Theater, Floyd’s Revival Scene from Susannah (with the New York City Opera Chorus), Rufus Wainwright’s "Les feux d’artifice" from Prima Donna, an excerpt from Adams’s "Hallelujah Junction" with the New York City Ballet, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Billy’s Soliloquy from Carousel and Weill’s Ice Cream Sextet from Street Scene. Works from Bernstein, Bolcom, Golijov, Barber, Menotti, Moore and Gershwin also will be featured.
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The gala will include dinner and dancing to Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, offering sounds of 1920s and ’30s jazz and popular music, and a live auction of luxury items and unique experiences to be auctioned off by Jamie Niven, Chairman of Sotheby’s North and South America. Décor and flowers will be designed by David Stark, and catering will be provided by Danny Meyer’s Hudson Yards Catering.
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