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Sonoma State University 2012-2013 Season

September 29 2012: Lang Lang, piano
September 30 2012: Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
October 13 2012: Karina Gauvin, soprano with Michael McMahon, piano
October 27 2012: "An All American Celebration" with John Adams & the International Contemporary Ensemble featuring Jeffrey Kahane, piano
October 28 2012: Modigliani Quartet with Joyce Yang, piano
November 10 2012: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano with Craig Terry, piano
November 11 2012: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers
November 15 2012: Buika
November 20 2012: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano with Alan Curtis, conductor & Il Compleso Barocco
December 8 2012: Tallis Scholars | Love is Better Than Wine
December 9 2012: Philharmonia Baroque performs Handel's Messiah
January 26 2013: Yo-Yo Ma, cello, and Kathryn Stott, piano
February 16 2013: Barbara Cook, soprano
November 2 2011: Lang Lang, piano
March 2 2013: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin with Lambert Orkis, piano
March 21 2013: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
April 7 2013: Vadim Repin, violin with Itamar Golan, piano
April 9 2013: Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano
April 18 2013: Lila Downs
April 21 2013: Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano with Marcelo Amaral, piano
April 27 2013: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano

Robert Cole announced the inaugural season for Weill Hall at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center today. The hall is modeled after Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and features a rather warm, expansive acoustic. The air conditioning system is impressively high tech and silent.

Official Site | 2012-2013 Season

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9 responses to “Sonoma State University 2012-2013 Season”

  1. CruzSF Avatar
    CruzSF

    OK, how did they line up those vocalists? Gauvin, Blythe, DiDonato, Garanča. Garanča!

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  2. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    I was thinking the same thing! Is this a domestic Ariodante tour for Joyce?

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  3. CruzSF Avatar
    CruzSF

    O god, Sarah, I sure hope you’re right about DiDonato & Il Compleso Barocco!

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  4. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    The people involved in this seem really well connected. Sanford I. Weill is the chairman of Carnegie Hall’s board, so I am sure that helps a lot.

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  5. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    The program DiDonato is performing is called “Drama Queens,” and features arias by Handel, Monteverdi, Gluck, and Haydn. She is singing it in New York and in Kansas also.

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  6. CruzSF Avatar
    CruzSF

    Oh, I’d still love to see/hear that. That program probably is a more reliable draw in the US than a full-length “Ariodante.”

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  7. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    Yes (although I was lucky enough to see Ariodante last May during my first trip to Paris) – and I’m wondering if this is a work-up for a new CD. Hmm, we’ve got Octavia, Cleopatra . . . I’m trying to think of the Queens she might be singing of these composers.
    Just saw her hubby conduct “Lucia” with Susanna Phillips (who I guess is featured in the current “Vogue” along with Isabel Leonard and Kate Lindsey).

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  8. Johnny Avatar
    Johnny

    Robert Cole is the artistic booking consultant. He used to run Cal Performances, and he’s very well connected….which is how he lined up such an impressive roster of artists/orchestras.

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  9. The Opera Tattler Avatar
    The Opera Tattler

    Indeed, Cole did talk just a little bit about planning the season at the press conference.

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