Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico

Conducted by Music Director Guillermo Figueroa and featuring soprano Ana María Martínez and tenor César Hernández, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra presents works by Puccini, Gutiérrez-Espinosa, Rossini, Sorozábal, and other composers.

• Sep 19, 2004 at 8:00 PM
• Concert Hall
• 2 hours
• $10.00

About the Program

About the Program

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For nearly 50 years, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra has played a principal role in the island’s musical life. Promoting classical music and making an occasional incursion into the popular canon, it has become one of the most important musical influences in Central America and the Caribbean. For its concert at the Kennedy Center, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico led by Music Director Guillermo Figueroa presents a program of works by Puccini, Gutiérrez-Espinosa, Rossini, Sorozábal, and other composers—to include stirring arias and duets, from zarzuela and opera, performed by soprano Ana María Martínez and tenor César Hernández. Program:

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36

GUTIÉRREZ-ESPINOSA - Duet from Act III of Macías

PUCCINI - "E lucevan le stelle": Aria from Act III of Tosca

ROSSINI - "Una voce poco fa": Aria from Act I of The Barber of Seville

GOUNOD - Duet from Act II of Faust

PUCCINI - Intermezzo from Act III of Manon Lescaut

LUNA - Aria from the zarzuela El Niño Judío

SOROZÁBAL - "No puede ser": Aria from the zarzuela La Tabernera del Puerto

PENELLA - Duet from the zarzuela El gato montés

SIERRA - Fandangos

RAVEL - Daphnis et Chloé

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