Tickets To Las Vegas Philharmonic Season Go On Sale Today!

Tickets to all ten of the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s 2013-14 season concerts will be on sale Monday, July 22nd.  Single tickets are priced $25, $46, $64 and $94.  Students receive a 50% discount on all tickets to all concerts with ID. Tickets are available from The Smith Center Box Office, phone 702.749.2000 or online from www.lvphil.org.  Full season subscriptions are still available to all 10 concerts or to the five-concert Masterworks Series or five-concert Pops Series.  Season subscriptions secure you the same seat at each concert and also save you money on ticket fees.  Subscribers can exchange tickets and receive special offers from the Las Vegas Philharmonic. 

All concerts will be held in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center at 7:30 PM.  Masterworks Series pre-concert conversations by the guest conductors will take place at 6:45 PM in the concert hall and are open to all ticket holders.  There will be 2:00 PM matinee performances of the “We Love the Holidays!” and “Love on the Big Screen: Casablanca” Pops Series concerts on December 7 and February 15 respectively.

Opening Night Guest Artists & Repertoire

The 2013-14 season will open on Saturday, September 28th with the first Masterworks Series concert called “Operatic Love.”  Guest conductor Case Scaglione, who conducted last season’s “An American Portrait” concert, returns to lead a program of opera arias and orchestral works.  The guest vocalists for this concert will be soprano Suzanne Vinnik and tenor Cody Austin.  They will perform works by Puccini, Verdi and Mozart from operas La bohème, La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni alongside orchestral works (full program details follow.)

This concert will be the first time the Las Vegas Philharmonic has performed opera repertoire in Reynolds Hall.  For native Las Vegan Suzanne Vinnik the concert will mark her Las Vegas Philharmonic and her Reynolds Hall debuts and will be her first hometown performance since 2008.  Suzanne, 26, has been praised by Opera News magazine for her “beautifully molded, vividly communicative phrasing.”  In April she made her role and house debut as Violetta in La Traviata at Florida Grand Opera.

The opening night celebration includes a pre-concert Cocktail Party at The Smith Center at 6:00PM.  Tickets are $100 per person and available now from the Las Vegas Philharmonic, phone 702.258.5438.

Guest Conductors

Guest conductors have been engaged for the 2013-14 season as the orchestra continues its Music Director search into a second season.  In addition to previous announced guest conductors, David Lockington has been invited back to lead the “Rising Star” Masterworks Series concert on March 8th, 2014 following his performance with the Las Vegas Philharmonic at its season finale concert, “Celestial Bodies,” in April.  Additions to this concert program include Sibelius’s Second Symphony and Mussorgsky’s Prelude to Khovanshchina, “Dawn Over the Moscow River” that will be performed alongside Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto featuring soloist Alexander Schimpf.  Associate Conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Francesco Lecce-Chong, has been engaged to conduct two performances of the classic film Casablanca as part of the Pops Series on February 15th, 2014 and Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Rei Hotoda, has been engaged to lead ten Youth Concert Series concerts in January 2014. 

Guest conductors previously announced are: Case Scaglione (Sept 28 – “Operatic Love”), Stuart Chafetz (Oct 12 – “Dancing & Romancing”), Steven Jarvi (Nov 23 - “Love of Country”), Bob Bernhardt (Dec 7 – “We Love the Holidays!”), Donato Cabrera (Jan 18 – “Battle Born–Nevada Proud!”), Matt Catingub, who conducted the orchestra’s 4TH WITH THE PHIL concert (April 5 – “Love Vintage Las Vegas Style”), Alondra de la Parra (April 26 – “Love Around the World”) and Sarah Hicks (May 17 – “Paris, Je T’aime.”)

Subscription Ticket Packages Offer the Best Seats for the Best Value

Subscribers can purchase tickets to the complete 10-concert season or to the five-concert Masterworks Series or the five-concert Pops Series.  Subscribing secures you the same seat at each concert throughout the season.  Packages begin at $125 for a five-concert subscription through to $940 for a 10-concert, A section subscription.  Full details are available online at lvphil.org.

Subscription packages can be purchased from The Smith Center Patron Services, online, by phone 702.749.2000, or in person at the box office.  General questions about the 2013-14 season can be directed to the Las Vegas Philharmonic at 702.258.5438.

Bus Service

The Las Vegas Philharmonic offers shuttle buses to The Smith Center from Summerlin (Starbright Theatre, 2215 Thomas Ryan Blvd) and Henderson (Anthem Center at Independence Center 2460 Hampton Road.)  Bus passes must be purchased in advance and can be obtained when purchasing concert tickets, or by calling The Smith Center Patron Services at 702.749.2000.  Each bus pass costs $15 round trip per concert.

LOVE YOUR LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC 2013-14 SEASON CONCERT CALENDER & PROGRAMS

All concerts are held in Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Drive, Las Vegas, NV

Ticket prices:  $25, $46, $64 & $94.  Tickets are available from The Smith Center Box Office, phone (702) 749-2000 or online from www.lvphil.org. 

Saturday, September 28, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Masterworks Series I: Operatic Love

Pre-concert conversation 6:45 p.m.

Opening Night Cocktail Party 6:00 p.m.

Party tickets $100; Advanced reservations required; Concert admission additional.

Las Vegas Philharmonic

Case Scaglione, conductor

Suzanne Vinnik, soprano

Cody Austin, tenor

The Las Vegas Philharmonic begins its second season as a resident company of The Smith Center with an evening of opera arias and operatic masterworks featuring guest singers Suzanne Vinnik (soprano) and Cody Austin (tenor) led by returning guest conductor Case Scaglione, assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic.

PROGRAM:

VERDI              Triumphal March from Aida

PUCCINI           Selections from La bohème:

Che gelida manina

Si, mi chiamano Mimi

O soave fanciulla

PUCCINI           Capriccio sinfonico

VERDI              Brindisi from La Traviata

                        Violetta’s aria (E strano! E strano!)

Intermission

MOZART         Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

MOZART         Il mio tesoro from Don Giovanni

MOZART         Dove sono i bei momenti from The Marriage of Figaro

R. STRAUSS      Rosenkavalier Suite

For complete schedule visit - www.lvphil.org