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Schedule of Classical Concerts in Frederick (PDF): » November & December, 2011

Coming next in our 2011-2012 Season!

Spring Concert

Sunday, May 27, 3 p.m. at Grace Church
Special guest star, mezzo soprano Tracie Luck

Great memories

Click on a photo below to see a slideshow from the event.

"The Magic Flute"

Mozart's "The Magic Flute," with professional chamber orchestra, performed as a semi-staged performances, in costume, in Brodbeck Music Hall at Hood College.

Click on the poster to see a slideshow of photos from rehearsals.

Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, 7:00 p.m.,
Saturday, Nov. 5, 3 p.m., special family show, see below
Sunday, Nov. 6, 3 p.m.

Tickets: $22 (general admission); $11 (students and seniors over 65)
For family show, tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students and seniors, but each child must be accompanied by an adult and each person needs to bring a canned good to donate to Grace Church's food pantry program

To learn more about the performance, see the Gazette article "Opera for All" by Cody Calamaio, Staff Writer.

Listen to a clip from the finale of “The Magic Flute”. If you do not see the in-page player, click here to download the mp3 clip.

"Opera Goes Back to the Movies"

In response to the enthusiastic response we received to last seasons' "Opera Goes to the Movies," we will take a trip back for more great operatic music featured in films and TV. On Sunday, May 29 at 3 p.m., at Grace Church, sopranos Jennifer Holbrook and Marie Lester Loy, mezzo soprano Katelyn Jackman, tenor William Davenport, and baritone Christian Waugh, along with members of the Choral Arts Society of Frederick under the direction of Lynn Staininger, and meastro Noel Lester at the piano, will present operatic favorites from "The Marriage of Figaro," "Madama Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Elixir of Love," "La Traviata," "Samson and Delilah," and others, as well as parallel selections from "Carmen" and, then, as reconfigured in "Carmen Jones." These selections have been featured in such films as "Fatal Attraction," "Philadelphia," "Trading Spaces," "Pretty Woman," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Prizzi's Honor," "Honeymoon in Vegas," and many more.

Sunday, May 29, 3 p.m. Tickets are $20 general admission, $10 for seniors over 65 and full-time students.

"Pasta and Puccini."

The MCO hosted its first gala fundraiser on January 15, 2011, at 5 p.m. at Brewer's Alley in downtown Frederick. The evening began with appetizers and a cash bar, followed by a mini-concert by some of the MCO's favorite singers—Katelyn Jackman and Marie Lester Loy, our Hansel and Gretel, Peter Tomaszewski, our baritone par excellence, and Jennifer Edwards and William Davenport, who will star in "Opera Goes Back to the Movies." After the concert, the chefs at Brewers Alley served up a full-course Italian dinner, complete with wine and dessert.

For a review by attendee Kathy Krach, go to "Pasta and Puccini" at Want2Dish.

Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" in English with chamber orchestra

Listen to a clip from the finale of “Hansel and Gretel”. If you do not see the in-page player, click here to download the mp3 clip.

Two performances: Friday Nov. 12, 2010, 7 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 14, 3 p.m., Grace United Church of Christ. Cast includes Katelyn Jackman as Hansel, Marie Lester Loy as Gretel, Jan Aaland as the Mother, Peter Tomaszewski as the Father, Jenni Bank as the Witch, Jonathan Goldblith as the Sandman, and Nola Richardson as the Dew Fairy. Also participating is the children's chorus from the Trinity School of Frederick.

A deluxe, 2-CD souvenir recording of our production is available. Please contact Noel Lester at nlester@hood.edu for details.

Left: Marie Lester Loy is Gretel and Katelyn Jackman is Hansel in the production of Humpedinck's Hansel and Gretel.

According to Marge Neal of the Frederick News Post "When the curtain rises Friday night on the Maryland Concert Opera's production of 'Hansel and Gretel,' it will mark the culmination of efforts to bring a community together." See the complete article for more about the production and additional photos.

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