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NOTED
American soprano Sandra Walden, together with eminent
US-based Filipino baritone Andrew Fernando and the
world-renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers, will close
the 2007-2008 Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO)
season concert on April 11, 8 pm, at the Cultural Center
of the Philippines’ (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(Main Theater). Maestro Eugene Castillo leads the PPO. A
preconcert chat will be held on the Main Theater Lobby
at 7 pm.
Walden
and Fernando will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Dona
Nobis Pacem,” written with liturgical text from “Agnus
Dei,” along with poems by Walt Whitman. The PPO performs
Tchaikovsky’s last symphony, “Symphony No.6 in B minor,
Pathẻtique, op. 74.”
Walden
is the director of the Lyric Theater and instructor in
opera and musical theater at the
University of
Northern Iowa.
With an extensive background in operatic and musical
theater performance, Walden began directing opera while
pursuing her Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the
University of Minnesota.
Fernando
is a first-prize winner of the 2003 Loren L. Zachary
National Vocal Competition in the
US,
as well as the grand-prize winner in the Pasadena Opera
Guild Vocal Competition 2004 and a finalist in the Licia
Albanese Puccini International Vocal Competition 2003.
From 1999-2002, Fernando was Opera Pacific’s resident
baritone, as well as an alumnus of the world-renowned
San Francisco Opera Merola Program.
Tickets
priced at P350, P500, P700 and P900 are available at the
CCP Box Office (832-3704), Ticketworld in National Book
Store (891-9999) and www.ticketworld.com.ph.
For
inquiries: 832-1125, local 1806. |
