Come and experience the SBSO in a more intimate setting at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The newly renamed June H. Edwards Mosaic Series, formally known as “Chamber”, includes three exceptional concerts.
This new title encompasses the Series’ diverse, exciting and unique nature, which will continue to present a collage of works for chamber orchestra and ensembles.
Verdi’s La Traviata tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. This collaboration with the South Bend Lyric Opera and South Bend Chamber Singers is a unique performance you don’t want to miss.
The third installment of the June H. Edwards Mosaic Series will be the immensely popular and frequently performed La Traviata. Giuseppe Verdi’s modern classic will be presented as a first-time collaboration between the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and the South Bend Lyric Opera (SBLO), under the masterful direction of Maestro Alastair Willis. In addition, The Symphony and the SBLO will also partner with the South Bend Chamber Singers, one of the best professional choirs in the region, skillfully led by Dr. Nancy Menk.
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi has an Italian libretto, based on Alexandre Dumas’ La Dame Aux Camélias (1852), and may be the most performed opera in the world. It is an intimate, domestic opera that was originally staged in modern dress, blurring the lines between audiences and onstage characters. In composing the work, Verdi used musical styles typically reserved for kings, queens, and heroes to portray regular people. He elevated the lives of normal characters, including everyday ugliness (i.e. prostitution) and raw emotion, all while pushing the boundaries of opera as a form. However, La Traviata is not a calcified museum piece because its themes of love, sacrifice, disease and misfortune are still painfully with us. Because audience members might still mirror the plight of its characters, it is an immersive, rather than an escapist, work of art.
For the first time in decades, this production will bring together three professional performing arts groups from the region. The collaboration will yield an exceptionally local creation, broadening participation and cooperation to offer South Bend audiences an opera of superior quality and expression. This unique production will be directed by Carl Ratner, whose prodigious career includes work at The Metropolitan Opera (NY), The Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) and Covent Garden (London).
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Thank you to our generous series sponsor; June H. Edwards Mosaic Series.
