Elliot Madore

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 7:30 pm

Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre

Elliot Madore

2011-12 ESO Presents

  • William Eddins, conductor & piano
    Elliot Madore, baritone
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About this Concert
It’s difficult to resist the panache in Toronto-born baritone Elliot Madore. Winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and not yet 25 years of age, he is already gaining international raves for his voice and artistry. Performing arias and songs from Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Die tote Stadt, and Carousel with the orchestra, this rising operatic star will also present a recital of music by Ravel, Poulenc and de Falla accompanied by Bill Eddins at the piano.		 This is the final ESO Presents performance of the 2011-12 Season.
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Ticket Information

$50 Dress Circle (A)
$40 Terrace (B)
$35 Orchestra (C)
$20 Orchestra Front (F)
Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Program Info

Program

ROSSINI
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Overture (8')*

"Largo al Factotum" (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia) (5')*

KORNGOLD
"Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen" (from Die Tote Stadt, Opus 12) (4'30")*

MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture (7')*

"Finch'han dal vino" (from Don Giovanni) (2')*

"Deh, vieni alla finestra" (from Don Giovanni) (3')*

RODGERS
"Soliloquay" (from Carousel) (8')*

INTERMISSION

POULENC
Banalités (10')*
 1. Chanson d'Orkenise
 2. Hôtel
 3. Fagnes de Wallonie
 4. Voyage à Paris
 5. Sanglots

FALLA
Siete canciones populares españolas (12')*
 1. El pano moruna
 2. Seguidilla murciana
 3. Asturiana
 4. Jota
 5. Nana
 6. Canción
 7. Polo

RAVEL
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (7')*
 1. Chanson Romanesque
 2. Chanson épique
 3. Chanson à boire

*Indicates approximate performance duration.
Program subject to change.

Artist Info

Elliot Madore, baritone

elliot madoreA winner of the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Canadian baritone Elliot Madore is already gaining international notoriety for his voice and artistry. He is currently a member of the prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.
 
This season, Mr. Madore makes his Metropolitan Opera mainstage debut as Lysander in their original baroque fantasy The Enchanted Island conducted by William Christie, as well as singing the Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd. He will make his European operatic debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in a new production of L’heure espagnole as Ramiro and L’enfant et les sortilèges as The Cat/Grandfather Clock directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by Kazushi Ono. Mr. Madore will make his Carnegie Hall recital debut at Weill Recital Hall as part of Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues… series.
 
In addition to the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Mr. Madore was the recipient of the 2010 George London Award for a Canadian Singer from the George London Foundation, a finalist in the 2010 Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers in Houston and the recipient of the ARIAS Emerging Young Artist Award from Opera Canada. He was also the winner of the 2009 Palm Beach Vocal Competition.

This is Mr. Madore's ESO debut.

William Eddins, conductor & piano

william eddins

William Eddins is in his seventh season as Music Director of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure, he has made it a priority that he conduct performances in nearly every subscription series the orchestra has presented, as well as a wide variety of special concerts and galas.

Bill Eddins began playing the piano at age five, but was bitten by the conducting bug while in his sophomore year at the Eastman School of Music. In 1989, he decided to begin conducting studies with Daniel Lewis at the University of Southern California. Assistant Conductorships with both the Minnesota Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony (the latter under the leadership of Daniel Barenboim) honed his skills even further.

Mr. Eddins has many interests outside music. He is fond of biking, tennis, reading, pinball, and cooking. He recently completed building his own recording studio at his home in Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife Jen (a clarinetist), and their sons Raef and Riley. While conducting has been his principal pursuit, he continues to perform on piano in Edmonton and elsewhere. He accepts a limited number of guest appearances each year. In 2008, he conducted a rare full staging of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess for Opéra de Lyon, which won him great acclaim, leading to a repeat engagement in Lyon in July and September 2010, as well as Edinburgh in August 2010, and in London in September 2010. During August 2009, Bill toured South Africa, conducting three gala concerts with soprano Renée Fleming and the kwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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