Mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski will join the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra for ‘Transfigured Night.’ Courtesy photoSFPM News:
Santa Fe Pro Musica is delighted to welcome back mezzo-soprano Deborah Domanski, joining the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra (Thomas O’Connor, conductor) in a feast of fin-de-siècle Viennese music. The concert takes place at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and 3 p.m. Nov. 9 at the St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art.
Tickets are $20, $35, $45, $65 and are available at the Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office 505.988.4640. Tickets are also available at The Lensic 505.988.1234, or online at www.santafepromusica.com
Discounts for students, teachers, groups, and families are available exclusively through the Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office.
Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Transfigured Night features Arnold Schoenberg’s transcendent Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4. If dodecaphony makes you nervous, never fear! This early work of Schoenberg, composed in 1899, followed the romantic traditions of Brahms and Wagner, and eventually set the musical style that was to be embraced by the movie industry during the 1930s when Los Angeles became the home of many émigrés escaping war-torn Europe, including Schoenberg himself.
Rounding out this concert is a chamber arrangement of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major, a glowing and sunny symphony that explores the road from experience to innocence, from complexity to simplicity, and from earthly life to heaven (Phillip Huscher, Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
Santa Fe Pro Musica Conductor and Music Director Thomas O’Connor and special guest John Clubbe will present a “behind the scenes” discussion of the music one hour prior to each concert at the St. Francis Auditorium free to ticket holders.
“Magnificent!” That’s the word former General Director Richard Gaddes used to describe Deborah Domanski’s performance in the role of Zenobia in the Santa Fe Opera’s 2008 Season production of Radamisto.
D.S. Crafts, reviewer for The Albuquerque Journal wrote, “Deborah Domanski as Radamisto’s wife Zenobia exudes sensuality both in voice and stage presence. Her clear, focused and radiant mezzo-soprano illuminates both her enthusiastic acceptance of death “Son contenta di morire” and her tender plea “Quando mai” (When cruel destiny). She and David Daniels are later reunited in a sparkling duet.”
Domanski’s solo concert engagements include Los Angeles Philharmonic debut under Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen as the Alto Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, The Laredo Symphony as alto soloist in Beethoven’s 9th, the Greenwich Choral Society’s performance of Rossini’s Petit Messe Solenelle, and with The Juilliard Choral Union in Vivaldi’s Gloria in Alice Tully Hall.
As a Young Artist in the Juilliard Opera Center she was a participant in the prestigious 2002 Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital in Alice Tully Hall. As the 2002 competition winner at the Music Academy of the West, Domanski became the Marilyn Horne Foundation Awardee and was presented in recital, and on national radio and in World Wide Web broadcast in October 2002. January 2005, Deborah made her Weill Concert Hall debut as part of the Horne Foundation’s The Song Continues… recital series at Carnegie Hall.
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