New Masterwork Series "Operatic Love" Tix Now On Sale For LV Philharmonic

Masterworks Series concert called “Operatic Love” to be conducted by Case Scaglione and feature guest singers Cody Austin and Las Vegas native Suzanne Vinnik performing opera arias & duets

Concert launches the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s 15th Anniversary 2013-14 Season

Tickets $25, $46, $64 & $94 available from The Smith Center Box Office 702.749.2000 or lvphil.org

Responding to audience requests for opera music, the Las Vegas Philharmonic will open its 15th anniversary 2013-14 season and second season as a resident company of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, September 28th at 7:30PM with a concert featuring arias, duets and overtures by composers Puccini, Verdi and Mozart. The concert called “Operatic Love” will be conducted by Case Scaglione, Assistant Conductor for the New York Philharmonic and a candidate for the open position of Music Director with the Las Vegas Philharmonic.  Joining the orchestra for the performance will be guest singers soprano Suzanne Vinnik and tenor Cody Austin, two rising stars of the US opera scene.  This will be the orchestra’s first performances of opera repertoire in the new concert hall.

For 26-year-old soprano Suzanne Vinnik, the concert will not only mark her Las Vegas Philharmonic and Smith Center debut, but also a homecoming.  Suzanne’s love of singing began when she was a student at CVT Gilbert Elementary in North Las Vegas and her first performances were with the Nevada Opera Theatre as an eight-year-old.  Suzanne’s voice has been praised by Opera News magazine for her “beautifully molded, vividly communicative phrasing.”  She is a recent alumna of the Opera Studio at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy where she studied under famed soprano Renata Scotto and performed in concert.  In April she made her role and house debut as Violetta in “La Traviata” at Florida Grand Opera.

Song selections for the “Operatic Love” concert include Che gelida manina, Mi chiamano Mimi and O Soave Fanciulla from Puccini’s “La Bohème” and the rousing drinking song Brindisi and poignant E strano aria from Verdi’s “La Traviata” alongside works by Mozart from his operas “Don Giovanni” and “The Marriage of Figaro.”  (Lyrics and translations will be provided to the audience at the concert.)  The concert opens with the Triumphal March from Verdi’s “Aida” and concludes with Richard Strauss’s Suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” featuring orchestral excerpts from the opera that is considered to have one of the most glorious scores ever composed for the opera house.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic’s opening night celebration includes a pre-concert Cocktail Party in The Smith Center’s Founders’ Room at 6:00 PM.  Cocktail party tickets are $100 per person and available from the Las Vegas Philharmonic, phone 702.258.5438.  All Masterworks Series concerts feature a pre-concert conversation with the guest conductor at 6:45 PM in Reynolds Hall open to all ticketholders.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic will perform ten concert programs during its 2013-14 season at The Smith Center through May 2014.  The season is a blend of Masterworks programs and Pops Series presentations.  The first Pops Series concert of the new season will be “Dancing & Romancing” on Saturday, October 12th, a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-inspired celebration of 1930s Broadway and Hollywood featuring the music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and more.

Tickets

This season the Las Vegas Philharmonic is offering a new low-cost ticket price of $25 for balcony seating at all of its concerts.  Seats in other sections are priced $46, $64 and $94.  Tickets are available from The Smith Center Box Office, phone 702.749.2000 or online from lvphil.org.  A 50% student discount is available on all single ticket purchases (ID required.)  Group sales are available by calling the Las Vegas Philharmonic.

2013-14 Season Subscription Packages

Subscribers can purchase tickets to the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s complete 10-concert season or to the five-concert Masterworks Series or the five-concert Pops Series.  Packages begin at $125 for a five-concert balcony section subscription through to $940 for a 10-concert, A section subscription.  Full details are available online at lvphil.org.

Saturday, September 28, 2013, 7:30PM

Masterworks Series I

OPERATIC LOVE

Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Drive=

Las Vegas Philharmonic

Case Scaglione, conductor

Suzanne Vinnik, soprano

Cody Austin, tenor

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  Selections from La Traviata:

Brindisi  E strano… Sempre libera

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 Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Opening Night Cocktail Party 6:00 PM in the Founders’ Room (additional ticket required)

Pre-concert conversation 6:45 PM in Reynolds Hall open to all ticket holders

Tickets $25, $46, $64 & $94 available from The Smith Center Box Office, phone 702.749.2000 or online at lvphil.org.

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.