Hurricane Thomas:
The Music of Adès Takes the World by Storm
New York City | November 14 Metropolitan Opera
Join fellow alumni, family, and friends for Dartmouth on Location at the Metropolitan Opera! Enjoy a performance of Thomas Adès' English-language opera The Tempest, an exclusive video lecture, and a post-opera conversation with award-winning professor Steve Swayne.
Celebrated British composer, pianist, and conductor Thomas Adès is just 41 years old and already the subject of festivals and revivals. Adès' acclaimed second opera, The Tempest, is based on Shakespeare's play of the same name, and debuted at Covent Garden in 2004 to rave reviews. It debuts at the Metropolitan Opera this fall.
Prior to the performance, you will receive an exclusive video presentation by Professor Steve Swayne, discussing his experiences introducing Dartmouth music students to The Tempest at Covent Garden and the aspects of Adès' genius that make him one of the most important figures in classical music today. Stay after the performance for a chance to meet Professor Swayne and discuss his presentation in person.
Steve Swayne is a professor of music at Dartmouth College and teaches courses in art music from 1700 to the present day, opera, American musical theater, Russian music, and American music. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His articles have appeared in the Sondheim Review, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, American Music, Studies in Musical Theatre, the Indiana Theory Review, and the Musical Quarterly. He has contributed to commentaries on Sondheim developed by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Chicago Lyric Opera. He is the author of How Sondheim Found His Sound (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life (Oxford University Press, 2011) and is at work on a third book that examines the life and music of musical theater composer William Finn. He is an accomplished concert pianist, with four nationally distributed recordings currently in release and a performance with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas to his credit. He has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the University of California, Berkeley. Swayne is the 2012 recipient of the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography.
Program:
5:30 – 6:45 pm – Meet Kate Barlow anytime between 5:30 – 6:45 pm at the American Table Café and Bar, located in Lincoln Center (on the ground floor of Alice Tully Hall, just north of the piazza in front of the Met), to pick up your tickets. If you arrive after 6:45 pm, please pick up your tickets at Will Call, inside the Met.
7:30 pm – Performance of The Tempest at the Metropolitan Opera
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This Dartmouth on Location event is organized by the Office of Alumni Relations in partnership with the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City. For more information on Dartmouth on Location adventures, please contact Alumni Continuing Education at (603) 646-9159 or ar.ace@dartmouth.edu.