Sunday February 28, 7:30pm Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Admission free. Call 569-3294
Carmen Overture
Sonata in D Major, K.381 W. A. Mozart
Overture from “the Barber of Seville”
Reminiscences de Don Juan Franz Liszt
Hommage a Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich (1979)
Danse espagnole Manuel de Falla
Tangata Astor Piazzolia
Friday February 26. 3-6pm. UALR Audition and Scholarship day. Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building. Call (501) 569-3294
http://ualr.edu/music/index.php/home/scholarships-2/
Satia Spencer was the star of a Valentines Concert Feb. 11th at the Governor’s mansion. She sang classic love songs witht the Arkansas Chamber singers.
Friday, February 19, 7:30pm. Guest Artist Dominick Rodriguez, tenor. Tickets $75. UALR students free. Call (501)569-8993.
UALR presents “Puccini Paradiso,” featuring tenor Dominick Rodriguez, who studies at the University of Minnesota and is gaining attention as an international opera star, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UALR Fine Arts Building. The concert will benefit UALR’s Opera Theatre.
Tickets are $75, including a champagne reception following the concert. Funds raised will benefit the Opera Theatre production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, to be performed in April. For tickets or for more information, call the Music Department Box Office at 501-569-8993.
A native of Buffalo, New York, Rodriguez has performed a number of operatic roles, including Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and the title role in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. He is a frequent performer in Italy, where he has sung Ruggero in Puccini’s La Rondine and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor.
Rodriguez has been selected as a Young American Artist by Glimmerglass Opera for 2010 and has also performed with St. Louis Opera and Central City Opera in Denver. The tenor is also in demand in the concert field, where he has been a soloist in major works such as Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
“Dominick has the perfect combination of attributes for Puccini – beautiful sound, passionate delivery and exciting command of the vocal range,” Crafts said. “I believe he is going to be an operatic super-star, and I am so excited that we are able to introduce him to Little Rock. This should be the hottest opera ticket in town this year – a chance to hear him before he goes to the Met.”
Other performers include associate professor of music and former Metropolitan Opera baritone Edward Crafts and instructor of music and former Chicago Lyric Opera soprano Susan Belcher.
The UALR Concert Choir, directed by assistant professor of music Bevan Keating, and members of the voice and piano faculties will accompany the performers. The concert will include excerpts from popular Puccini operas including La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot and Manon Lescaut.
Thursday February 11, 12:15pm. Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building. Admission free. Call (501) 569-3294