CAST**

Opera San José Orchestra, Chorus, Dancers and Supers

*Mr. Nies conducts Nov. 18 & 20
**Casting subject to change without notice

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY

Serkin, Brahms & Tchaikovsky
Part of 2012-2013 Classics Season
Saturday 8:00 pm December 1, 2012
Sunday 2:30 pm December 2, 2012
California Theatre

Brahms and Tchaikovsky together should be enough for any concert. But to cap this one off, we have engaged master pianist Peter Serkin to perform the D-minor Concerto with his frequent collaborator, Maestro George Cleve. Our December program marks Serkin’s first San Jose appearance in over two decades. Brahms’s concerto is paired with the deeply dramatic symphony that Tchaikovsky himself called “the best thing I ever composed or ever shall compose.”

Conductor: George Cleve
Soloist(s): Peter Serkin, piano
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathétique

BALLET SAN JOSE

CHOREOGRAPHY: Karen Gabay
MUSIC: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SCENERY: Paul Kelly

COSTUMES: Theoni V. Aldredge

PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Saturday, December 8 at 1:30pm
* Saturday, December 8 at 7pm
Sunday, December 9 at 1:30pm

Friday, December 14 at 7pm
Saturday, December 15 at 1:30pm
Saturday, December 15 at 7pm
Sunday, December 16 at 1:30pm

* Wednesday, December 19 at 7pm
Thursday, December 20 at 7pm
* Friday, December 21 at 1:30pm
Friday, December 21 at 7pm
Saturday, December 22 at 1:30pm
Saturday, December 22 at 7pm
Sunday, December 23 at 1:30pm

* Special Reduced-Price Family Performances
Ballet San Jose presents three Reduced-Price Family Performances of The Nutcracker. Tickets to these special performances run from $21 to $75. All other performances range from $30 to $105.

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY

Kurt Weill: Berlin, Paris, New York
part of season: 2012-2013 Classics Season
Saturday 8:00 pm January 12, 2013
Sunday 2:30 pm January 13, 2013

Great numbers of artists left Europe for America in the 1930s and 40s, and the move transformed both them and their new home. Kurt Weill was one of these, and his music mirrored his journey. In this concert / cabaret, we hear first 1920’s Berlin (Three Penny Opera, with its immortal ‘Mack the Knife’); then Paris (Seven Deadly Sins, part opera, part theater); and finally New York, where Weill helped shape the music of Broadway. Vroman, ‘a musical and theatrical marvel,’ (S.F. Chronicle) joins the orchestra in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and in unforgettable Broadway melodies from ‘My Ship’ to ‘Lost in the Stars.’

Conductor: James Holmes
Soloist(s): Lisa Vroman, soprano
Kurt Weill: Three Penny Opera Suite
Kurt Weill: Seven Deadly Sins
Kurt Weill: Broadway Medley

OPERA SAN JOSE

IL TROVATORE: February 9 – 24, 2013
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor: David Rohrbaugh
Assistant Conductor: Andrew Whitfield
Stage Director: Brad Dalton
Chorus Master: Andrew Whitfield
Set Designer: Steven C. Kemp
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Poindexter
Lighting Designer: David Lee Cuthbert
Wig & Makeup Designer: Jeanna Parham

CAST*

Opera San José Orchestra, Chorus, Dancers and Supers

*Casting subject to change without notice