The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes conductor Marie Jacquot to the podium for a program of Rossini’s William Tell: Overture, selections from Puccini’s Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, La bohème, Turandot andMadame Butterfly featuring soprano Julia Radosz and tenor Jonathan Burton, Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavalaria Rusticana, and Respighi’s Roman Festivals.
TACO Classical Concert Series
Saturday, April 13 • 8pm
The VETS, Providence
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Julia Radosz, soprano
Jonathan Burton, tenor
ROSSINI William Tell: Overture
PUCCINI Selections from Tosca, Gianni Schicchi, La bohème, Turandot and Madame Butterfly
MASCAGNI Cavalaria Rusticana: Intermezzo
RESPIGHI Roman Festivals
Before the Concert 7:00pm
Pre-concert Talk with Francisco Noya
After the Concert
Q&A with Marie Jacquot
Open Rehearsal
Friday, April 12 at 5:30pm
The VETS, Providence
Security at The VETS
Heightened security measures have been implemented at The VETS to include Providence Police Details at all events. Please be advised that all bags may be inspected at the discretion of VETS security and/or the police officer on site. Items confiscated will not be returned. Please be advised that suitcases, briefcases, large bags, and laptops are not allowed in the building. Additionally, outside food and drinks are not permitted inside the venue.
Educated in Paris where she studied the trombone, Ms. Jacquot holds a degree in conducting from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. After receiving several international scholarships, she participated in several conducting forums including Dirigentenforum/Deutscher Musikrat. In September 2016, Ms. Jacquot was appointed First Kapellmeister and Deputy Chief Conductor at Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. For the 2017-18 season, she debuted with the MDR Musiksommer, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Switzerland’s Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Staatstheater Stuttgart for a revival of Medea.
Soprano Julia Radosz is rapidly establishing herself with the works of Verdi, Mozart and the bel canto genre. In the 2016-2017 season, Ms. Radosz made two role debuts as Musetta, La bohème, with Wichita Grand Opera, Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, with Opera Orlando, and premiered the roles of Olympia, A Certain Quiet, and Lydia Larkspur, The Rivals. Ms. Radosz is the winner of the Jenny Lind Competition, Connecticut Concert Opera Competition, Marcella Kochanska Sembrich Vocal Competition and Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation Competition.
Praised by the Des Moines Register as being “full of warmth” and “sturdy,” American tenor Jonathan Burton recently appeared as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly with the Welsh National Opera, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West with Opera Colorado, Cavoradossi in Tosca with Central City Opera, Rodolfo in La bohème with Palm Beach Opera and Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera with the Florida Grand Opera. Mr. Burton studied at Westminster Choir College and the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and was a member of Florida Grand Opera’s Young Artist Program.
In 1828, when Gioacchino Rossini began composing William Tell, he was the world’s most famous living composer. Rossini had been living in Paris for four years. The French people loved his Italian operas and could not do enough for him, but his own goal was to compose French operas.
Tosca premiered in 1900 and was the first opera by Giacomo Puccini completely modeled on a new trend: verismo (realism).
Gianni Schicchi was a real person of the 14th century mentioned in Dante’sInferno. He was a lawyer, and in the opera, the greedy family of a recently deceased rich man who has left all his money to the Church, tried to engage him to substitute a fraudulent will naming them as heirs.
At the beginning of 1896, the world was waiting for another opera byPuccini, and on February 1, the world got it: La bohème.
A composer’s last work is often something unique, even perhaps transcendental. Luciano Pavarotti made Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” from Turandot popular.
Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is about a young Japanese girl who falls in love with and marries Pinkerton, an American naval officer. Her family rejects her, and she rejects her religion to embrace Pinkerton’s Christianity; to the Japanese, she is a social outcast.
Pietro Mascagni was a one-masterpiece composer, and that masterpiece was Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry). Based on a short story, this one-act opera was packed with realism, high emotion and swift action.
There are only a few 20th-century masters of colorful orchestration. Leading composers among this select group, such as Ottorino Respighi, normally worked in a musical style that was a holdover from the colorful 19th century.
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