80 ANOS DO “ACTO DE CONSCIÊNCIA” - ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES
Sábado, 27 de Junho 2020 – 21.00 horas
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2020-06-25
Este blog pretende divulgar e homenagear o ACTO de CONSCIÊNCIA de Aristides de Sousa Mendes em Junho de 1940 em Bordeaux, ao salvar milhares de refugiados sob a ameaça imediata dos invasores e da Segunda Guerra Mundial. The mission of the blog amigosdesousamendes.blogspot.com is to celebrate, disseminate and honor the Act of Conscience of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of refugees in June 1940 in Bordeaux. Dia da Consciência 17-Junho-2006
Cantor Arianne Brown, Carnival, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Hope in Anything Goes, Luisa in The Fantasticks, and Zorah in Ruddigore. Opera credits include roles in Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, and Amelia Goes to the Ball. Arianne was proud to produce and perform in the premiere of highlights from Neely Bruce’s Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides for Adas Israel’s Garden of the Righteous ceremony. Arianne is married to Rabbi Randy Brown and is the proud Ima of three little boys.
Composer/pianist Neely Bruce is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the composer of over 800 works, including operas, oratorios and other choral music, orchestral works, solo songs, seven documentary scores for public television, and some 14 hours of solo piano music. He is the only pianist to have accompanied all of the solo vocal music of Charles Ives. In 2005, Bruce set the Bill of Rights to music, in the style of William Billings. This work, for chorus and eight instruments, has been performed 35 times. His most recent major work is a dramatic oratorio entitled Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides.
Stephan Kirchgraber, bass, made his debut with the Miami Opera, after studies at the University of Illinois and in Munich, returning to Miami for principal roles in Macbeth, Norma, Turandot, and Alberto Franchetti’s Cristoforo Colombo. In recent seasons, he sang at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in Rigoletto and Verdi’s Requiem, and in Fidelio with the Shippensburg Festival Symphony and Chorus. He appeared in Aida with the Opera de Puerto Rico and in Andrea Chenier with Culturarte de Puerto Rico, released on DVD. Mr. Kirchgraber made his European debut in Die Meistersinger at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, toured with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Pecs in Beethoven’s Ninth, and appeared in Salome at the Opernhaus Zurich. He also appeared with the opera companies of Augusta, Baltimore, Orlando, Palm Beach, Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Utah, and has toured with the New York City Opera. In 1998, he received the Robert M. Lauch Memorial Grant from the Wagner Society of New York.      Please click the button below to reserve your tickets today!
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