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Mon March 16, 2015

Opera by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble: 62nd Annual Noon Concert Series

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March 16 | 12:15-1 p.m. | UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | Hertz Concert Hall, FREE
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents a new dramatic musical work based on Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s novel Death with Interruptions. With music composed by Kurt Rohde and a libretto by the distinguished UC Berkeley historian Thomas Laqueur, the story recounts what happens when death, who lives in an unnamed Iberian country with her taciturn scythe, falls in love with the principal cellist of a local orchestra and fails to claim his life. Soprano Nikki Einfeld, baritone
Daniel Cilli, tenor Christopher Bengochea and cellist Leighton Fong are joined by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, noted San Francisco choir Volti San Francisco and director Majel Connery in the first Left Coast opera production.
Support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award granted to
Professor Thomas Laqueur.
Event Contact: [email protected], 510-642-4864
March 16 | 12:15-1 p.m. | UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC | Hertz Concert Hall, FREE
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents a new dramatic musical work based on Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s novel Death with Interruptions. With music composed by Kurt Rohde and a libretto by the distinguished UC Berkeley historian Thomas Laqueur, the story recounts what happens when death, who lives in an unnamed Iberian country with her taciturn scythe, falls in love with the principal cellist of a local orchestra and fails to claim his life. Soprano Nikki Einfeld, baritone
Daniel Cilli, tenor Christopher Bengochea and cellist Leighton Fong are joined by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, noted San Francisco choir Volti San Francisco and director Majel Connery in the first Left Coast opera production.
Support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award granted to
Professor Thomas Laqueur.
Event Contact: [email protected], 510-642-4864
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