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Schedule of Events - 53rd Season

Featuring Suzanne Grogan, Winner of the Bel Canto Institute

SPONSORS:
Peoples United Bank, Barre
Rock of Ages Corp., Barre
Paige & Campbell Inc., Barre
Cushman Design Group, Stowe

GEMS OF ITALIAN OPERA
The Annual Opera Gala

Saturday, October 22, 2011, 7:30 pm
Hardwick Town House
Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:30 pm
Barre Opera House

ROGRAM

Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani: Overture

Bellini: Ah! Non credea mirarti from La sonnambula
Suzanne Grogan, Soprano

Verdi: Coro delle Processione: "Gerusalem!" from I Lombardi
Vermont Philharmonic Chorus

Verdi: Caro nome from Rigoletto
Suzanne Grogan, Soprano

Donizetti: Che interminabile andirivieni! (Servants' Chorus): Don Pasquale

Intermission

Schubert Overture in C, Op. 170 (in Italian Style)

:Puccini: Requiem for Chorus, Viola and Organ
Vermont Philharmonic Chorus
William Pierson, Viola
Kristie Kapusta, Organ
Lisa Jablow, Conductor

Donizetti: O luce di quest' anima from Linda di Chamounix
Suzanne Grogan, Soprano

Puccini: "Amor" - Choral Finale from Turandot
Vermont Philharmonic Chorus

 

SPONSORS:
People's United Bank Montpelier Branch
Vermont State Employee Credit Union

Handel's Messiah
Lisa Jablow, Conductor

Friday, December 2, 2011, 7:30 pm, St. Augustine Church, 16 Barre Street, Montpelier.
Sunday, December 4, 2011, 3:30 pm, Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre

Featuring the Vermont Philharmonic Chorus

Mary Bonhag, soprano
Sierra Marcy, soprano
Ann Harvey, alto
Daniel Marcy, tenor
Marc Yakubosky, bass
About the Soloists

The performance of the Messiah concert at St. Augustine’s Church is supported in part by the City of Montpelier Community Arts Fund, the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

SPONSORS:
Community National Bank, St. Johnsbury
Passumpsic Savings Bank, St. Johnsbury
Gensburg, Atwell & Greaves, St. Johnsbury

Symphonic Titans -
Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mahler!

Saturday, February 4, 2012, 7:30 pm
Barre Opera House

Sunday, February 5, 2012, 2:00 pm
St. Johnsbury Academy Fuller Hall

Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Movement 1 Allegro, molto appassionato
Victoria Bergeron, violin
Borowicz Scholarship Winner

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”

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Sponsors:
Community National Bank, St. Johnsbury
Passumpsic Savings Bank, St. Johnsbury
Gensburg, Atwell & Greaves, St. Johnsbury
Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, St. Johnsbury
Weidmann, St. Johnsbury

Terri Gregory and Milford Cushman of the Cushman Design Group, Stowe
Jet Service Envelope Co., Barre
Co-Operative Insurance Companies, Isham/ Berwick Agency, Barre
Northfield Savings Bank, Barre Branch

 

Family Concert

Sunday, March 25, 2012, 3:30 PM
Barre Opera House

With the Green Mountain Youth Symphony
Robert Blais, Conductor

The Vermont Philharmonic will again hold a cover contest for the Family Concert program cover. The illustrations submitted this year will only be used for this concert program.

The submission should be in 8 1/2 x 11 format, and can be in any media. If you would prefer not to send the original work, you may send a hi-resolution scan of the original, at least 300 ppi. Email to vpcovercontest@gmail.com.

Ticket prices for the Family Concert are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $5 for students. There is a family rate of $32 (two adults, plus the rest of the family.) Participating youth are free (if you submit an entry for the cover contest and/or bring a homemade instrument to play at the concert, you are participating!), and tickets for parents of participating youth are $10.

Need some help creating your own instrument? It's easy, just check out these fun websites:

 


Karen Kevra, Flute


Anna Reinersman, Harp

Spring Concert

Saturday June 2, 2012, 7:30 pm
Hardwick Town House Theater, Hardwick

Sunday, June 3, 2012, 3:30 pm
Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph

Tickets: $15 / $12 seniors / $5 students
Online tickets will be available soon.

   

The Summer Pops Concert

Featuring the Vermont Philharmonic Chorus
Lisa Jablow, Conductor

Saturday, August 11, 2012, 7:30 pm
Barre Opera House, Barre
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Sunday, August 12, 2012, 4:00 pm
Moose Meadow Lodge, Duxbury

Rain Location: Thatcher Brook Primary School
47 Stowe Street, Waterbury

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