Friday, December 1, 2017 | 8:00pm
Norman Dello Joio The Triumph of Saint Joan Symphony (1952)
Norman Dello Joio The Trial at Rouen (1956)
Heather Buck, soprano

Semi-staged opera in collaboration with Odyssey Opera

Gil Rose, conductor

Sung in English

In 1950 Boston based Pulitzer Prize winning composer Norman Dello Joio premiered his first opera The Triumph of Saint Joan. Unhappy with the results he withdrew the work. Still fascinated with the subject he was commissioned by the NBC Television Opera Theatre to produce an original 75-minute opera for television. The resulting work in two acts, The Trial at Rouen, premiered on April 8, 1956, on NBC. In collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera’s performance marks the first time The Trial at Rouen will be performed off screen and on stage in front of a live audience. The most condensed of all the operas of our season, it focuses on the period of the imprisonment and trial of Joan. The concert will open with Dello Joio’s most popular work The Triumph of Saint Joan Symphony a purely orchestral work based on the material from his first Joan of Arc opera.

Program is subject to change

 

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