Sunday, November 29, 1998
The four subscription concerts of the May Festival are at 8 p.m. in Music Hall. Special concerts are in Isaac M. Wise (Plum Street) Temple and the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is the official orchestra.
May 12 or 13, 7:30 p.m. - Isaac M. Wise (Plum Street) Temple - Kurt Weill's "Prophets" (Propheten) from The Eternal Road (Der Weg der Verheissung). James Conlon, conductor; Jonathan Eaton, concert staging; John Aler, tenor; Victor Ledbetter, baritone; May Festival Chorus.
May 14 - James Conlon, conductor; Benita Valente, soprano; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano; May Festival Chorus and Chorus Alumni. Ives, They are There! (A War Song March); Earl Kim, Where Grief Slumbers; Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection).
May 15 - James Conlon, conductor; John Aler and Tom Baresel, tenors; Ruth Falcon and Paula Delligatti, sopranos; John Cheek, bass; Victor Ledbetter, baritone; Jonathan Eaton, narrator. Cincinnati Boychoir, Randall Wolfe, director; May Festival Chorus. Ives, Lincoln the Great Commoner and Majority (The Masses); Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46; Martinu, Memorial to Lidica; Kodaly, Psalmus Hungaricus; Puccini, Act III of Turandot.
May 16, 7 p.m. Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption - James Conlon, conductor; James Bagwell, conductor; May Festival Chorus and Youth Chorus. Webern, Entflieht auf leichten Kahnen (He Escapes on Light Boats), Op. 2; Two Songs, Op. 19; Zemlinsky, Aurikelchen; Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb; Te Deum in C; Ives, Three Harvest Home Chorales; Poulenc, Four Motets for a Time of Penitence.
May 21 - Robert Shaw, conductor; Dominique Labelle, soprano; James Michael McGuire, baritone; May Festival Chorus. Barber, Prayers of Kierkegaard, Op. 30; Poulenc, Gloria; Vaughan Williams, Dona nobis pacem (Grant Us Peace).
May 22 - Italian Night, Robert Porco, conductor; Paula Delligatti, soprano; John Cheek, bass; Cincinnati Boychoir; May Festival Chorus. Verdi, Overture to Nabucco; "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" and "Tu sul labbro dei veggenti" from Nabucco; "O tu Palermo," from I Vespri Siciliani; "Patria oppressa!" from Macbeth; "Spuntato ecco il ti d'esultanze" from Don Carlos; Leoncavallo, Bell Chorus from Pagliacci; Mascagni, "Regina Coeli, laetare; Alleluja!" and "Inneggiamo, il Signor non e moto," from Cavalleria Rusticana; Puccini, "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine; "Mi chiamano Mimi" from La Boheme; Bioto, Prologue to Mefistofele.
Subscriptions: Four Music Hall concerts, $34-$141 ($178 box); Weekend I or Weekend II (two Music Hall concerts), $20-$85.50 ($89.50 box); Festival Pass (four coupons to any May Festival concert at Music Hall), $68 or $96; single tickets, including the Plum Street and Cathedral concerts, go on sale in late April, $10.50-$47 ($50 box). Renewals will be sent to subscribers this week. 381-3300.
Historic temple will be adapted for Weill's 'Prophets'
