La Forza Del Destino

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New Production!

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly 30 years, setting the scene in a contemporary world. The cast also features tenor Brian Jagde as Don Alvaro, baritone Igor Golovatenko as Don Carlo, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk as Preziosilla, bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Fra Melitone, and bass Soloman Howard as both Leonora’s father and Padre Guardiano.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Lise Davidsen (Leonora), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Preziosilla), Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro), Igor Golovatenko (Don Carlo di Vargas), Patrick Carfizzi (Fra Melitone), Soloman Howard (Marquis of Calatrava/Padre Guardiano)

Production: Mariusz Treliński
Set Designer: Boris Kudlička
Costume Designer: Moritz Junge
Lighting Designer: Marc Heinz
Projection Designer: Bartek Macias
Choreographer: Maćko Prusak

 

Pre Event Lecture

Presented by: Dmitriy Glivinskiy

Dmitriy Glivinskiy, is a Ukrainian vocal coach and conductor. He is a graduate of Mannes College of Music and of the Peabody Institute where, among his teachers, were Pavlina Dokovska, Boris Slutsky and Scott Jackson Wiley. Most recently, he worked with OnSite Opera as a pianist for their What Lies Beneath project at the South Street Seaport and with NYC Opera on their production of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. This summer, he returned to the Glimmerglass festival as a young artist assistant conductor. He is a former faculty member at Hofstra University and, most recently, was the music director of the Opera Theater at Brooklyn College.