Last night, there was a special concert held in this city. At the invitation of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's travelling show arrived. The TSO is beginning its 90th year, and each year (for the past nmber of years) the TSO travels to Northern Ontario to share classical music.
This year's concert will take them to Sudbury, Elliot Lake and Sault Ste. Marie. In the space of just a few days, they will interact with more than 10,000 people, adults and students. The concerts they perform are slightly different in composition, but the focus is to expose as many people as possible to the music of the classical masters.
This travelling show included the added talents of conductor Alain Trudel and soprano Shannon Mercer. The programme for the evening included works from the Italian operatic tradition, including Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Una voce poco fa. Below is video of Joyce Didonato (another famous opera soprano) singing this latter piece:
Other soprano solos from last night's performance included Adieu notre petite table and O Dieu! que de bijoux from Gounod's Faust (here's a sample performance by Argentinian soprano Mercedes Gancedo):
Other works included an orchestral arrangement of arias from Bizet's Carmen, the Bootlegger's Tarantella by Canadian composer John Estacio, and all four movements of Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony.
The TSO concert opens the 36th season of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra. There are six more concerts planned by the SSO in this season.
This year's concert will take them to Sudbury, Elliot Lake and Sault Ste. Marie. In the space of just a few days, they will interact with more than 10,000 people, adults and students. The concerts they perform are slightly different in composition, but the focus is to expose as many people as possible to the music of the classical masters.
This travelling show included the added talents of conductor Alain Trudel and soprano Shannon Mercer. The programme for the evening included works from the Italian operatic tradition, including Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Una voce poco fa. Below is video of Joyce Didonato (another famous opera soprano) singing this latter piece:
Other soprano solos from last night's performance included Adieu notre petite table and O Dieu! que de bijoux from Gounod's Faust (here's a sample performance by Argentinian soprano Mercedes Gancedo):
Other works included an orchestral arrangement of arias from Bizet's Carmen, the Bootlegger's Tarantella by Canadian composer John Estacio, and all four movements of Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony.
The TSO concert opens the 36th season of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra. There are six more concerts planned by the SSO in this season.
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