Come listen to the Palisades Symphony concert on August 25.
Photo: RICH SCHMITT/CTN
Residents do not have to leave Pacific Palisades to enjoy quality concerts, and this end-of-summer concert should be spectacular.
The Palisades Symphony Orchestra will perform “Opera Favorites,” under the direction of guest conductor Alan Medak at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 25 at the Palisades Lutheran Church, 15905 Sunset Boulevard. The concert is free, and donations are appreciated. There is free parking.
Singers participating are soprano Natalie Salins, mezzo-soprano Jessica Mamey, tenor James Nathaniel Salazar and baritone Eric Castro.” They will perform arias from Donizetti, Mozart, Puccini, Offenbach, Verdi and Rossini.
Special guest flutist John Barcelona will be featured in Doppler’s Hungarian Fantasies.
The program includes selections from:
Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise by Franz Doppler
Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Turandot and La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach
Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi
As a special treat, a young Ukrainian Azusa Pacific grad student Andrii Karatai will conduct the aria from Tails of Hoffman “Bella Nuit.”
The Symphony, a nonprofit, was founded by Joel B. Lish, in 1966 and remained under his direction until his death this past March.
He handed the baton to Dr. Maxim Kuzin, who led his first concert in June. Prior to his newest role, the Ukrainian-born conductor is currently the Music Director of the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and the UC Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. He also guest conducted for several Eastern European orchestras, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Presidents Orchestra of Ukraine, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Georgia.
Kuzin, who moved to the United States in 2014, received his doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting at UCLA.
To email: PalisadesSymphony@gmail.com or to make a donation mail a check to: Palisades Symphony Orchestra, Inc. P.O. Box 214, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272