Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season May-June 2016 | Page 41

program notes {
George London Award, and most recently
the 2016 Richard Tucker Award. Ms. Wilson received her degree at the University
of Cincinnati-College Conservatory
of Music.
Tamara Wilson last appeared with the
BSO in September 2014, performing
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Marin Alsop,
conductor.

Verdi’s Requiem
Music Center At Strathmore

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Saturday, June 18, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Sunday, June 19, 2016 — 3 p.m.
Presenting Sponsor:

Sa sha Va si l j e v

Friday, June 17, 2016 — 8 p.m.

Marin Alsop, Conductor
Tamara Wilson, Soprano
Elizabeth Bishop, Mezzo Soprano
Dimitri Pittas, Tenor
Morris Robinson, Bass
Choral Arts Society Of Washington
Scott Tucker, Artistic Director

Giuseppe Verdi Messa da Requiem
Requiem and Kyrie

Sequence (Dies Irae)
Offertorio (Domine Jesu)

Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Lux aeterna
Libera me

TAMARA WILSON
ELIZABETH BISHOP

DIMITRI PITTAS
MORRIS ROBINSON
CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Music Center At Strathmore
The concert will end at approximately 9:35 p.m.

Elizabeth Bishop

American mezzo
soprano Elizabeth
Bishop, founder and
head of the Potomac
Vocal Institute, is a frequent guest of
major opera companies and orchestras
throughout the United States and overseas.
Since her Metropolitan Opera debut
in 1994, Ms. Bishop has returned in
such roles as Fenena in Nabucco, Venus
in Tannhäuser, Mère Marie in Dialogues
des Carmélites, and for its productions of
War and Peace and Iphigénie en Tauride. A
regular presence at Washington National
Opera, she has appeared as Eboli in Don
Carlo, the Marquise de Merteuil in Conrad
Susa’s The Dangerous Liaisons, and Emilia
in Otello among others. Ms. Bishop
has also appeared in solo recitals in San
Francisco and Tokyo and for the United
States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
She is a former member of the Juilliard
Opera Center and a winner of the 1993
Metropolitan National Council Auditions.
This is Elizabeth Bishop’s BSO debut.

Marin Alsop
A aro n Gan g

For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.

Tamara Wilson

Tamara Wilson
recently made her
Metropolitan Opera
debut in the title role of
Aida and her house role debut as Norma at
the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Her appearances

also include Donna Anna in Don
Giovanni under James Conlon and the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Elisabeth
de Valois in Don Carlos and Leonora in Il
trovatore, both at Houston Grand Opera.
On the concert stage, Ms. Wilson
made her Carnegie Hall debut with the
BSO under Marin Alsop in Honegger’s
Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher.
An alumna of the Houston Grand
Opera Studio, her awards include the

Kr isti n H o eb er man

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
The concert will end at approximately 9:30p.m. on Saturday, and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Dimitri Pittas

A graduate of the
Metropolitan Opera’s
Lindemann Young
Artist Development
Program, Dimitri Pittas has been heard
on the Met stage as Rodolfo in La
bohème, Macduff in Macbeth, Nemorino
in L’Elisir d’Amore, and Tamino in Die
Zauberflöte. Other engagements include
La Bohème with Opéra National de Bordeaux, Dallas Opera and Palm Beach
Opera, the title role in a new production

May–June 2016 |

O v ertur e

39