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Fall 2017 at Curtis<br />
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert featured<br />
guest conductor JUANJO MENA and two student soloists—OLIVER HERBERT<br />
(Cello) and HAE SUE LEE (Viola) in Strauss’s Don Quixote (above).<br />
Mr. Mena also conducted the Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, and<br />
conducting fellow Carlos Ágreda launched the program with John<br />
Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine. PHOTOS: DAVID DeBALKO<br />
The Curtis Opera Theatre presented two productions last fall.<br />
R.B. SCHLATHER’s intimate conception of Impressions of Pelléas,<br />
Marius Constant’s adaptation of Debussy’s only opera, placed the<br />
cast among the audience and a piano on wheels in the midst of the<br />
action in the Curtis Opera Studio (below). Featured were musical<br />
director LISA KELLER at the piano, PATRICK WILHELM (left) in the title<br />
role, and KENDRA BROOM (center) as Mélisande, with EMILY POGORELC,<br />
SOPHIA FIUZA HUNT, DENNIS CHMELENSKY, and KODI MEYER. November<br />
brought Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in a wintry production by<br />
CHAS RADER-SHIEBER (right), with TIFFANY TOWNSEND as Tatyana,<br />
the idealistic ingénue who<br />
MORE ONLINE<br />
falls in love with the opera’s<br />
Watch and listen to Curtis performances.<br />
aloof title character.<br />
www.curtis.edu/YouTube<br />
PHOTOS: CORY WEAVER
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