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Vivace is a funkified group—single/partnered/married—who just happen to get their groove on at classical concerts and opera.
Vivace is your musical friend…with benefits.
Fifty-two weekends to plan in a year, here’s six of them ready to go! Do Vivace all-year long with the Classical V series. Classical V subscribers attend Vivace’s sizzlin’ after-parties at no additional cost. That includes the Opening Night Gala! Vivace will cover your after-party cost for that night (a savings of $35 per person). Vivace members sit together, get their own funkified version of the program notes, and receive a specially discounted price. Vivace tickets are $30, $15 for students.
Choose at least four of the concert below to purchase the Classical V series. As a Classical V subscriber, you'll receive 20% off non-Vivace tickets anytime throughout the year. Receive a $5 discount on Vivace UnCorked tickets, a free subscription to TEMPO (our quartlery magazine), save at local businesses with your Subscriber Advantages Card, receive invitations to exclusive subscriber events, and more!
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Madame Butterfly
October 18, 20, 22, 24 - 7:30 PM
October 26 - 2:00 PM
Madame Butterfly is ranked number 1 on Opera America’s list of the top 20 most-performed works in North America. Some scholars suggest its tragic tale reflects actual events that occurred in Nagasaki, Japan during the early 1890s. Madame Butterfly passionately explores the consequences of obsessive devotion. Pinkerton, a U.S. Navy officer in Japan, contracts what he considers a temporary marriage to Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, who renounces religion and family in her adoration for him. When Pinkerton leaves for America, he promises to return “when the robins nest again.” Butterfly blissfully ignores warnings of his unfaithfulness and adamantly insists that her husband would never forget his son, “Sorrow.” Pinkerton does come back, but Butterfly’s devotion and heart are shattered when she realizes he has not returned for her.
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Elgar's Cello Concerto
November 7 & 8, 8 PM
Arild Remmereit, conductor
Natalie Clein, cello
Brahms ~ Symphony No. 3 in F major
Elgar ~ Concerto for Violoncello in E minor
Ginastera ~ Estancia: Four Dances
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Regina
January 17, 19, 21, 23 - 7:30 PM
January 25 - 2:00 PM
Based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, Regina holds special note for Utahns as it premiered on Broadway in 1949 with conductor Maurice Abravanel. Set in the Deep South in the year 1900, this distinctively American opera chronicles the demise of a wealthy southern family torn apart by greed. Regina Giddens schemes and double-crosses until she is left with only her wealth and loneliness. Though Blitzstein’s work is little-known today, it has been said that in his era, no one surpassed his genius for setting American words to American music. In Regina, Blitzstein adeptly blends operatic lyricism, spirituals, ragtime, blues, and Dixieland.
Sung in English with English supertitles.
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Keith & Olga
February 27 & 28, 8 PM
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Olga Kern, piano
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ~ Concerto TBA
Béla Bartók ~ The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19
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An Evening of Adventure
March 27 & 28, 8 PM
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Viviane Hagner, violin
Korngold ~ Concerto for Violin in D major
Ives ~ Symphony No. 4
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Tchaik's Big 5
May 8 & 9, 8 PM
Andrew Grams, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ~ Concerto No. 2 for Violin in G minor, op. 63
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ~ Symphony No. 5
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Need more music? Consider adding a few additional concerts to your Classical V Series. Click here for recommendations.
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