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concert> Celebrating Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco with the Washington Concert Opera

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The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington and the Washington Concert Opera invite you to join Maestro Antony Walker in a discussion on the historical background of Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco and in a sampling of the opera’s extraordinary music to be performed by singers Natalie Conte and Gustavo Ahualli, accompanied by David Hanlon.

The evening is a preamble to the Washington Concert Opera’s Nabucco scheduled to be performed on March 4, 2023, in the Lisner Auditorium. For more information about this event visit https://concertopera.org/events/nabucco.

LOCATION
EMBASSY OF ITALY
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

 

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ABOUT THE OPERA

“My career really began with NABUCCO.” So stated Giuseppe Verdi after composing it — his third opera.

NABUCCO was considered to be a masterpiece as well as the first patriotic opera of its time. While La Scala only planned on eight performances for its premiere, they went on to present it 57 times in just three months due to its roaring reception (which is still the record). Among the many recognizable arias and duets throughout Verdi’s operas, this one, set in Jerusalem and Babylon in the 500s BC, holds what might be the most famous chorus ever written (“Va, pensiero”). The piece later became an important Italian anthem.

ABOUT THE MAESTRO

Maestro Antony Walker – Conductor

MAESTRO ANTHONY WALKER

Maestro Antony Walker is Artistic Director and Conductor of Washington Concert Opera, Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera, and Conductor Emeritus of Pinchgut Opera in his native Sydney, Australia. He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 2011 with Orfeo ed Euridice and since then has conducted The Barber of Seville, Les pêcheurs de perles, a Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals concert, and most recently The Magic Flute. Other recent conducting appearances include Opera di Firenze (Semiramide), West Australian Opera (Le nozze di Figaro), North Carolina Opera (Manon Lescaut, Norma), Opera Australia (Carmen, Falstaff), Washington National Opera (Dialogues of the Carmelites), and many more. Remaining performances in the 2022-2023 season include Il Trovatore for Pittsburgh Opera as well as Verdi’s Nabucco at the Washington Concert Opera on March 4th.

 

 

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Gustavo Ahualli – Singer

SINGER GUSTAVO AHUALLI

Baritone Gustavo Ahualli has become well known for his dramatic portrayals in a myriad of leading roles of standard operatic repertoire as well as new works by contemporary composers. The Houston Press extolled, “As Macbeth, Argentinian baritone, Gustavo Ahualli proved he has an ideal voice for Verdi, beautiful, full, rich, and powerful. His singing was effortless, with excellent control, and ripe with machismo.”

He has over 45 roles under his belt. Since his debut in his native Tucumán, Argentina, Mr. Ahualli has sung for the most important theaters of his country including the iconic Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In the United States he has sung with many opera organizations including the Palm Beach Opera, Sarasota Opera, Central City Opera, and the Baltimore Concert Opera.

Mr. Ahualli currently lives in Washington, D.C. where he serves on the Voice Faculty for the Department of Vocal Performance at the Rome School of Music, Drama and Art-The Catholic University of America and he is the Director of the Latin American Music Center for the same institution. He also serves as voice instructor for Levine School of Music.

www.gustavoahualli.com

Natalie Conte – Singer

SINGER NATALIE CONTE

Soprano Natalie Conte is an award¬ winning performer of opera, art song, and oratorio. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2018 singing the soprano solo in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. She won first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Young Artist Competition, which featured her as a recitalist across the country. She also won the Maryland Lyric Opera Competition, after which she worked with Aprile Milla.

Additionally, she won the Vocal Arts D.C. Discovery Art Song Competition which featured her as a recitalist throughout Washington D.C. in such venues as the Kennedy Center and the Phillips Collection. She has sung in works with the IN Series, the Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, New Dominion Chorale, and the Russian Chamber Art Society, among others. Beyond the local stage, Natalie has performed in her hometown Detroit, Michigan as well as internationally in Rome, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Natalie has had the honor of working in master classes with such renowned singers as Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballe, and Sherrill Milnes.

Natalie serves on the voice faculty at Shenandoah Conservatory and Towson University. She has performed as a member of the ensemble with both the Washington National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

www.natalieconte.com

David Hanlon – Pianist

PIANIST DAVID HANLON

David Hanlon is Assistant Conductor & Chorus Master at the Washington Concert Opera. In addition, he is a composer, conductor, and pianist who is currently writing The Pigeon Keeper with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, commissioned by the Opera For All Voices consortium led by Santa Fe Opera. David’s last collaboration with Stephanie was the chamber opera After the Storm, whose premiere he conducted at Houston Grand Opera (HGO). David has often written work for HGO, including the chamber opera Past the Checkpoints, about undocumented immigrants; chamber vocal piece The Ninth November I Was Hiding, about his grandfather’s arrest during Kristallnacht; and Power, based on a text by a high-schooler about bullying.

David is also a conductor of new works, most recently for the world premiere of El Milagro del Recuerdo at Houston Grand Opera, which he also co-arranged. Previously, David made his debut at Chicago Opera Theatre conducting Weisman/Cote’s The Scarlet Ibis. Among other world premieres, David has long been associated with mariachi operas Cruzar la cara de la luna (World premiere and recording; revivals in Houston, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, and New York City Opera) and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (World premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago; revivals at San Diego, HGO, and Fort Worth).

  • Organizzato da: IIC Washington & Washington Concert Opera