Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Jane Eaglen Senta
Jill Grove Mary
Thomas Studebaker Erik
Eric Cutler Steersman
Mark Delavan Dutchman
Stephen Milling Daland
Peter McClintock stage director
Design by David Finn and Daniel Hubp
SFS Chorus
The
Flying Dutchman, the tale of a ghostly seafarer condemned to sail the
world for eternity—or until he finds redeeming love—is the first
work in which the power of Wagner’s genius was realized and a groundbreaking
work on the path to modern opera. The drama is conveyed not just by the
singers, but by the orchestra. The Dutchman is portrayed by one of today’s
foremost young baritones, Mark Delavan. Jane Eaglen, one of the great Wagnerian
sopranos of our generation and winner of the 2003 Grammy Award for her recording
of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, stars as Senta.
This program includes supertitles.
There will be one intermission.
Wed
Jun 11 7pm Fri
Jun 13 7pm Sun
Jun 15 7pm Thu
Jun 19 8pm* Sat
Jun 21 7pm*Certain sections not available.
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Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Laura Claycomb soprano
Pacific Boychoir
Toch Bunte Suite
Schoenberg Herzgewächse
Toch The Chinese Flute
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Wagner Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosels
Geburtstag (Children’s Catechism for
Kosel’s Birthday)
Hindemith Kammermusik No.1
Innocence
embodied, innocence undone. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and
Kinder-Katechismus are scenes of home and hearth, one a tender
pledge of love to his wife, the other a sweet lyric for his children to
sing on their mother’s birthday. Weimar composers shatter this secure
world. In Toch’s chamber symphony The Chinese Flute, soprano
Laura Claycomb ponders time passing and a mind unraveling. In the Bunte
Suite we hear music that added spicy charm to Weimar's radical theatres.
Hindemith displays his sardonic wit. And Schoenberg proves that, in music
of eros and rapture, none was his equal.
Sat
Jun 14 8pm
Robert Ziegler conductor (first half of program)
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Ute Lemper vocalist
Hudson Shad vocal quartet
Cabaret Songs of the Weimar Years Weill
The Seven Deadly Sins
German chanteuse
Ute Lemper stars in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, one of
the great social satires of modern music, written with Bertolt Brecht in
the wake of The Threepenny Opera and built on waltzes, foxtrots,
marches and shimmies. Ute Lemper is Germany’s most electrifying singer,
often compared to legends Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf.
This program includes supertitles.
Fri
Jun 20 8pm
Sun
Jun 22 2pm
Join us on the main floor for free talks by Dr. Stephen Hinton on hour prior
to each concert. Dr. Hinton, Chairman of the Department of Music at Stanford
University, is a leading Kurt Weill Scholar.
Sat May 31 1pm
The SFS and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art introduce Weimar culture through images, music and conversation, with a focus on the art of Paul Klee.
For tickets, call (415) 864-6000. $25 general; $20 SFS subscribers and students with ID. For more information about the Paul Klee exhibit, visit the SFMOMA website at www.sfmoma.org.
