Telluride Chamber Music Fest: Metropolitan Opera Tenor Featured

09 Aug Telluride Chamber Music Fest: Metropolitan Opera Tenor Featured

Tenor Alan Glassman has thrilled audiences throughout America and Europe for decades with his vibrant timbre and committed interpretations of major operatic roles. A regular at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Glassman triumphed in 2004 as Herod in a new production of “Salome” starring Karita Mattila. He has since been heard in the MET’s productions of “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” “Boris Godunov,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Carmen,” “Elektra,” and more. In 2012, he sang the role of Red Whiskers in “Billy Budd.” Glassman returns there this season as the Hunchback Brother in “Die Frau hone Schatten” and will also cover the role of the Captain in “Wozzeck.”

Hailed as “the Otello of his generation,” in the past few seasons alone Allan Glassman performed the role with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Dallas Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and at the Chautauqua Opera.

Tenor Alan Glassman, a fixture at New Yoork’s Metropolitan Opera, in Telluride for a performance

Glassman is featured locally in “A Night at the Met,” an evening of chamber music and operatic highlights, part of the final long weekend of the 41st annual Telluride Chamber Music Festival. His performance takes place Thursday August 14 at the historic Sheridan Opera House.

The Telluride Chamber Music Festival continues with concerts on Friday, August 15, 11 am, a free concert for children at the Sheridan Opera House and on Sunday, August 17, with a 2:30 p.m. matinee at the Telluride Mountain Village Conference Center and a dessert concert that evening (7:30 p.m., $20)

Seating is limited for the dessert concert, so reservations are needed. Call Warner Paige at 970-369-1351.

Tickets for all the concerts are $25.00.

Tickets are available at www.telluridechambermusic.org,,Telluride Music Store, or at the door prior to each concert.

“A Night at the Metropolitan,” the program:

On Wenlock Edge Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)

On Wenlock Edge

From Far, From Eve and Morning

Is My Team Plowing

Oh, When I Was In Love With You

Bredon Hill

Clun

Rückert- Lieder (1901-02) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

arranged for Piano and Strings by Gerhard Praesent (b. 1957)

Blick’ mir nicht in die Lieder!

Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft

Um Mitternacht

Liebst du um Schönheit

Ich bin der Walt abhanden gekommen

~Intermission~

Selected Operatic Highlights