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The Opera San Antonio Presents Inaugural Gala Concert Featuring the Music of Tobias Picker; Miller Theatre Presents the Tobias Picker Ensemble

Apr. 30, 2013

The Opera San Antonio Presents Inaugural Gala Concert Featuring the Music of Tobias Picker; Miller Theatre Presents the Tobias Picker Ensemble

In honor of its impending grand opening in 2015, The Opera San Antonio hosts an inaugural gala concert on May 23 at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, featuring performances from Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy. Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of The Opera San Antonio, has curated a diverse line-up of opera highlights for the event, with performances by star singers including Patricia Racette, Susannah Biller, Dolora Zajick, Daniela Mack, Jay Hunter Morris, Alek Shrader, Lucas Meachem and Eric Owens. Mixing music “from the time of Handel to the time of Tobias,” according to board chairman Mel Weingart, the program features music from Picker’s An American Tragedy including the aria See the Light performed by Dolora Zajick and the San Antonio Symphony, led by conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing. With its first season set to open in January of 2015, The Opera San Antonio will make its home at the new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

On May 7, the Miller Theatre Pop-Up Concerts series celebrates the chamber music of Tobias Picker with a performance by the Tobias Picker Ensemble. The program includesPicker’s Nova quintet and Invisible Lilacs for violin and piano, both of which will be featured on an upcoming recording of Picker’s chamber music on the Tzadik label. The Miller Theatre program also includes two works for solo piano: When Soft Voices Die and the third etude from Four Etudes for Ursula, performed by Nathaniel LaNassa.

For more information on Tobias Picker visit www.schott-music.com.

To learn more about The Opera San Antonio visit www.theoperasa.org.

For details on the “Picker Pops Up” concert visit www.millertheatre.com.

Tobias Picker
An American Tragedy (2005)
opera in two acts

libretto (En) by Gene Scheer

for 2 sopranos, 3 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 baritones, boy soprano, children's voices and SATB chorus

2(pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2-4.2.2.1-timp.1perc-hp.pno-org(in pit)small portable onstage organ-str

145'

Nova (1979)
for piano quintet
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12’ 

Invisible Lilacs (1991)
for violin and piano
20’

When Soft Voices Die (1977)
for solo piano
15’ 

Four Etudes for Ursula (1996)
for solo piano
12’

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