Soprano Indira Mahajan Joins Starry Cast for Verdi's Aida, May 2/4

Giuseppi Verdi's Aida
SCHUSTER CENTER
Friday, May 2, 8:00 ~ Sunday, May 4, 3:00 ~ 2014
Dayton Opera | Thomas Bankston, Artistic Director


Single Tickets: $23 | $36 | $66 | $87 | $92
Senior, Military & Student Discounts are available at walkup

INDIRA MAHAJAN soprano – Aida
LAYNA CHIANAKAS mezzo-soprano – Amneris
JOHN PICKLE tenor – Radames
GRANT YOUNGBLOOD baritone – Amonasro
HAROLD WILSON bass – Ramfis
KENNETH SHAW bass – King of Egypt
LOGAN RUCKER tenor – Messenger
ANDREA CHENOWETH soprano – Priestess
KATHLEEN CLAWSON stage director
NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor | KAREN RUSSO BURKE choreographer
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | DAYTON BALLET  

The grandest of Grand Operas returns to the Schuster Center after a decade!

Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida is filled with spectacular pageantry, emotional arias, thrilling choruses and ballet, and spine-tingling orchestral music. Set in ancient Egypt, this intense drama centers on the love triangle of captive Ethiopian princess Aida; her rival, the Egyptian princess Amneris; and Radames, the Egyptian commander they both love. Will Aida’s love for Radames win out over her loyalty to her own father and country? Don't wait another ten years! Join us for this magnificent performing arts event.

Great Singers, Best Songs from Biggest Broadway Musicals with Full Orchestra!

The Best of Broadway
SCHUSTER CENTER
Friday, May 9 ~ Saturday, May 10 ~ 8:00 pm ~ 2014


Single Tickets: $21 | $25 | $36 | $52 | $61 | $76
Senior, Military & Student Discounts available

NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY
Guest Artists:
Deb Colvin-Tener, Jamie Cordes, Marya Spring Cordes, Scott Hunt, Patricia Linhart, Katie Pees, Jay Pierce, Scott Stoney, Michelle Zimmerman
Special Guest: Claire Northcut
KEVIN MOORE producer
GREG HELLEMS staging director
SEAN MICHAEL FLOWERS vocal director  

As a rule, the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance promotes music, dance, and opera. This May, it takes on the mission of promoting another of the performing arts, one that has always been a mainstay of the Dayton arts scene—the theater.

The Artistic Directors of Dayton Philharmonic and The Human Race Theatre Company —Neal Gittleman and Kevin Moore, respectively—bring their different sensibilities together in a collaboration designed to bring out the gems from Broadway musicals and produce two spectacularly enjoyable evenings. It’s Broadway’s best, performed by Dayton’s best.

And you had best be there!

Join the DPO and Chorus for Beethoven's Great Ninth, the Classical Season Finale

Beethoven's Great Ninth
SCHUSTER CENTER
Friday, May 16 ~ Saturday, May 17 ~ 8:00 pm ~ 2014

Take Note pre-concert talk in the Mead Theatre with Neal Gittleman, DPO Artistic Director, and Michael Schelle, composer


Single Tickets: $9 | $12 | $23 | $36 | $47 | $59
Senior, Military & Student Discounts available

SIERRA A Joyous Overture
SCHELLE Swashbuckler!
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125

NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor
DAYTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & CHORUS
HANK DAHLMAN chorus director
ANDREA CHENOWETH soprano
JASON SLAYDEN tenor
NATHAN STARK baritoner  

For a 1991 concert that featured Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Sierra—a professor of composition at Cornell University—wrote A Joyous Overture, using music from the Beethoven symphony for inspiration and similar orchestration. Influenced by the music of Stravinsky, Bartók, and Ives, New Jersey native and composer Michael Schelle (pronounced "Shelley") contributes the flashy Swashbuckler! to this exciting program.

Before 1824, no composer had ever used voices in a symphony. It is ironic that the first composer to do so—Beethoven—could not hear the effect; he was almost totally deaf at the time of the premiere of his great Ninth. Such is the measure of one of the most amazing musical geniuses in all history.