Metropolitan Opera superstar and Texas Tech alum (!) Susan Graham is performing with the Lubbock Symphony tonight at 8:00 in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. She's been great to work with--very kind and easy-going. She's singing Berlioz's Les nuits d'ete, a Mozart aria, and something from Lehar's Merry Widow.
The orchestra is playing Strauss's Tales from Vienna Woods, Weber's Der Freischutz overture (GREAT music--the overture and the opera. If you don't know it, check it out. It's German Romanticism at its most Romantic, I think). We're also doing a few selections from Bizet's Carmen (orchestral suites, not with voice).
To that end, my stand partner suggested I watch this:
The orchestra is playing Strauss's Tales from Vienna Woods, Weber's Der Freischutz overture (GREAT music--the overture and the opera. If you don't know it, check it out. It's German Romanticism at its most Romantic, I think). We're also doing a few selections from Bizet's Carmen (orchestral suites, not with voice).
To that end, my stand partner suggested I watch this: