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Joachim Schamberger, director; Benjamin Manis, conductor
With Mozart’s memorable melodies and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s comedic libretto, Così fan tutte has become an enduring audience favorite. In this present-day setting of the classic tale, Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to a wager with reality show producer Don Alfonso, who is confident he can prove that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are fickle. The two young men pretend to have been called off to war, then visit their betrotheds in disguise—and thus begins the test of the women’s fidelity. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11428766Joachim Schamberger, director; Benjamin Manis, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
With Mozart’s memorable melodies and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s comedic libretto, Così fan tutte has become an enduring audience favorite. In this present-day setting of the classic tale, Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to a wager with reality show producer Don Alfonso, who is confident he can prove that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are fickle. The two young men pretend to have been called off to war, then visit their betrotheds in disguise—and thus begins the test of the women’s fidelity. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11428768Joachim Schamberger, director; Benjamin Manis, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
With Mozart’s memorable melodies and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s comedic libretto, Così fan tutte has become an enduring audience favorite. In this present-day setting of the classic tale, Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to a wager with reality show producer Don Alfonso, who is confident he can prove that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are fickle. The two young men pretend to have been called off to war, then visit their betrotheds in disguise—and thus begins the test of the women’s fidelity. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11428767Joachim Schamberger, director; Benjamin Manis, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
With Mozart’s memorable melodies and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s comedic libretto, Così fan tutte has become an enduring audience favorite. In this present-day setting of the classic tale, Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to a wager with reality show producer Don Alfonso, who is confident he can prove that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are fickle. The two young men pretend to have been called off to war, then visit their betrotheds in disguise—and thus begins the test of the women’s fidelity. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11428769Joachim Schamberger, director; Benjamin Manis, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
With Mozart’s memorable melodies and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s comedic libretto, Così fan tutte has become an enduring audience favorite. In this present-day setting of the classic tale, Ferrando and Guglielmo agree to a wager with reality show producer Don Alfonso, who is confident he can prove that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, are fickle. The two young men pretend to have been called off to war, then visit their betrotheds in disguise—and thus begins the test of the women’s fidelity. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.
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Northwestern University Opera Theater's production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hänsel und Gretel” will delight audiences of all ages.
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Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children. The siblings must rely on their wits, each other, and the benevolent beings watching over the forest in order to escape her clutches. With its charming folk music-inspired melodies and colorful storytelling, Humperdinck’s adaptation of the classic tale is sure to delight all ages.
Performed in German with English supertitles.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11389660Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children. The siblings must rely on their wits, each other, and the benevolent beings watching over the forest in order to escape her clutches. With its charming folk music-inspired melodies and colorful storytelling, Humperdinck’s adaptation of the classic tale is sure to delight all ages.
Performed in German with English supertitles.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11389662Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children. The siblings must rely on their wits, each other, and the benevolent beings watching over the forest in order to escape her clutches. With its charming folk music-inspired melodies and colorful storytelling, Humperdinck’s adaptation of the classic tale is sure to delight all ages.
Performed in German with English supertitles.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11389661Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children. The siblings must rely on their wits, each other, and the benevolent beings watching over the forest in order to escape her clutches. With its charming folk music-inspired melodies and colorful storytelling, Humperdinck’s adaptation of the classic tale is sure to delight all ages.
Performed in German with English supertitles.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
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https://ci.ovationtix.com/36542/performance/11389663Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children. The siblings must rely on their wits, each other, and the benevolent beings watching over the forest in order to escape her clutches. With its charming folk music-inspired melodies and colorful storytelling, Humperdinck’s adaptation of the classic tale is sure to delight all ages.
Performed in German with English supertitles.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
View Program Book
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Hans Thomalla, director of the Institute for New Music, reflects on the first 10 years of the institute's impact on the Bienen School of Music and greater Northwestern communities.
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When COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in mid-March, Hanna Bingham thought her dreams of performing violin in the Bienen School’s planned production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo were over. But in a matter of days, the two faculty members leading the production decided L’Orfeo would go on, if in a very different form.
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When the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the Bienen School’s spring opera production, director of opera Joachim Schamberger reconceived Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo as an online project —an experimental opera film, Orfeo Remote.
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Bienen School voice and opera faculty, students, and alumni played important roles in the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s 2020 National Virtual Conference in June.
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Joachim Schamberger, Stephen Alltop, Kandise Le Blanc and Nicholas Lin share their various perspectives and insights on Orfeo Remote.
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In its Chicago-area premiere, David T. Little's "Dog Days" gave Bienen School students an inside look at composing and mounting a contemporary opera.
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The Institute for New Music at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music will present the Chicago premiere of David T. Little’s powerful contemporary opera “Dog Days,” Nov. 21 to 24 at the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Bookending the Institute’s season is NUNC! 4, Northwestern’s biennial conference and festival of new music April 24 to 26, 2020.
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Equal parts tragedy and farce, Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress” follows the moral decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, who exchanges a simple life with sweetheart Anne Truelove for the worldly pleasures of London in the company of the devious Nick Shadow.
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Northwestern University Opera Theater’s most recent season demonstrated the breadth of human emotion under the creative leadership of Joachim Schamberger, Bienen School director of opera.
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Joachim Schamberger, director; Taichi Fukumura, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the Henry James novel of the same title, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and premiered in 1954. A young governess arrives at an English country house to care for two children; she is advised by their guardian never to write to him about the children, never to inquire about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. Experience Britten’s haunting chamber opera in the intimate Ryan Opera Theater.
NOTE: This production includes indirect references to abuse that may be triggering to some audience members.
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Joachim Schamberger, director; Taichi Fukumura, conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the Henry James novel of the same title, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and premiered in 1954. A young governess arrives at an English country house to care for two children; she is advised by their guardian never to write to him about the children, never to inquire about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. Experience Britten’s haunting chamber opera in the intimate Ryan Opera Theater.
NOTE: This production includes indirect references to abuse that may be triggering to some audience members.
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With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the Henry James novel of the same title, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and premiered in 1954. A young governess arrives at an English country house to care for two children; she is advised by their guardian never to write to him about the children, never to inquire about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. Experience Britten’s haunting chamber opera in the intimate Ryan Opera Theater.
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With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the Henry James novel of the same title, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and premiered in 1954. A young governess arrives at an English country house to care for two children; she is advised by their guardian never to write to him about the children, never to inquire about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. Experience Britten’s haunting chamber opera in the intimate Ryan Opera Theater.
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With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the Henry James novel of the same title, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and premiered in 1954. A young governess arrives at an English country house to care for two children; she is advised by their guardian never to write to him about the children, never to inquire about the history of the house, and never to abandon the children. Experience Britten’s haunting chamber opera in the intimate Ryan Opera Theater.
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George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) is the focus of the biennial Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival, hosted by Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, May 17 to 20 on the Evanston campus. The 2017/2018 Robert M. and Maya L. Tichio Vocal Master Class Series concludes with baritone Dwayne Croft on May 2 at 7 p.m. in Galvin Recital Hall.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/april/handel-festival-and-opera-high… Joachim Schamberger Joachim Schamberger, Artist-in-Residence and Director of Opera, has gained great acclaim as an international stage director and video designer.
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