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For Release Upon Receipt - September 4, 2007
Contact:
Jean Connaughton, 617-353-7293, jeanconn@bu.edu
Ellen Carr, 617-353-8783, emcarr@bu.edu
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC 2007-2008 MARQUEE EVENT SEASON
Boston - The Boston University School of Music at the College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce its Marquee Events schedule for the 2007-2008 season. Featuring a Fall Fringe Festival, two performances at Symphony Hall, and two operas on the main stage of the Boston University Theatre, this will once again prove to be a notable season. Under the direction of André de Quadros, the School of Music continues to offer its students a rich and nurturing artistic and academic experience, while serving as a significant contributor to Boston’s performing arts community.
Boston University 11th Annual Fall Fringe Festival
Presented by the BU School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Friday, October 12 – Sunday, November 4
Tartuffe
Full-length play
By Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Translation by Richard Wilbur
Director David Gram
Friday, October 12 – Saturday, October 27
Tickets: $7, on sale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210
Hostage
One-act opera
Music by Samuel Headrick
Libretto in English by Craig Wich
Conductor William Lumpkin
Guest Stage Director Craig Wich
Saturday, October 20 – Saturday, November 3
Tickets: $7, on sale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
One-act opera
Music by Michael Nyman
Libretto in English by Christopher Rawlence and Michael Nyman, assisted by Michael Morris
Music Director Jeffrey Stevens
Stage Director Jim Petosa
Saturday, October 27 – Saturday, November 3
Tickets: $7, on sale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210
Concert Performance of Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges
Tuesday, October 30, 8:00pm
Conductor David Hoose
Stage Director Sharon Daniels
Featuring the Boston University Symphony Orchestra with singers from the BU Opera Institute and Opera Programs. Concert also includes Arnold Bax’s Symphony No. 5.
Free and open to the public
Tsai Performance Center
Opera Institute Student Recitals
Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4, 2:00pm
Members of the Opera Institute perform in recital, featuring concert and operatic repertoire in an unconventional setting.
Free and open to the public
Boston University Theatre, Lane-Comley Studio 210
Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus at Symphony Hall
Monday, December 3, 8:00pm
Conductors David Hoose and Ann Howard Jones
Charles Ives Psalm 90
Samuel Barber Prayers of Kierkegaard
Aaron Copland Third Symphony
Tickets: $35, $20, $10. Tickets on sale this fall through the Symphony Hall Box Office
Symphony Hall
The Magic Flute
Presented by the BU School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Music by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Music Director William Lumpkin
Stage Director TBA
Thursday, February 21 – Sunday, February 24
Tickets: $20 and $15, on sale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Boston University Theatre
Verdi’s Requiem at Symphony Hall
Monday, April 7, 8:00pm
Conductors David Hoose and Ann Howard Jones
Featuring the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus
Tickets: $35, $20, $10. Tickets on sale this spring through the Symphony Hall Box Office
Symphony Hall
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Presented by the BU School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Music Director William Lumpkin
Stage Director Sharon Daniels
Thursday, April 17 – Sunday, April 20
Tickets: $20 and $15, on sale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com
Boston University Theatre
Founded in 1873, the Boston University School of Music combines the intimacy and intensity of conservatory training with a broadly based, traditional liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and intense coursework at the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, composition and theory, musicology, music education, and historical performance, as well as a certificate program in its Opera Institute, and artist and performance diplomas.
The Boston University College of Fine Arts was created in 1954 to bring together the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts. The University’s vision was to create a community of artists in a conservatory-style school offering professional training in the arts to both undergraduate and graduate students, complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students. Since those early days, education at the College of Fine Arts has begun on the B.U. campus and extended into the city of Boston, a rich center of cultural, artistic and intellectual activity.
All programming is subject to change. Please visit us online at www.bu.edu/cfa for the most current event information.
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