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2008 Tanglewood schedule, week one, July 5 – July 10, 2008
Program details for week one at Tanglewood, July 5 – July 10, 2008.
Saturday, July 5, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Saturday and Sunday programs; pre-rehearsal talk
at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.
Opening Night at Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano (Cassandra)*
DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Chorebus)**
CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)**
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)**
JANE BUNNELL, mezzo-soprano (Hecuba)
RONALD NALDI, tenor (Helenus)**
DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Soldier)**
GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector)*
KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Greek Captain)**
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
BERLIOZ The Trojans, Part 1 (The Capture of Troy)
Concert performance sung in French with English supertitles
Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, mezzo-soprano (Dido)
KRISTINN SIGMUNDSSON, bass (Narbal)*
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)
CHRISTIN-MARIE HILL, mezzo-soprano (Anna)
PHILIPPE CASTAGNER, tenor (Hylas)**
CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano
(Ghost of Cassandra)
DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Ghost of Chorebus)
DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Sentry 1)
GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector
and the God Mercury)
KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Trojan Sentry 2)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
BERLIOZ The Trojans, Part 2
(The Trojans at Carthage)
Concert performance sung in French
with English supertitles
Monday, July 7, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor (Strauss)
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOWS
MOZART Symphony No. 25
DEBUSSY Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony
Tuesday, July 8, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
KEITH LOCKHART
Guest Vocalists
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
VOCAL FELLOWS
SONDHEIM A Little Night Music
Concert performance
Thursday, July 10, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
IMOGEN COOPER, piano
ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
Sonata in C, D.840, Reliquie
Four Impromptus, D.935
Sonata in A, D.959
* denotes BSO debut; ** denotes Tanglewood debut