Arts Calendar
SEASON TICKET INFORMATION:
Season tickets are now on sale for the Performing Arts Series and the Nevada Repertory Company. Please call (775) 784-4278 to order.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
NOVEMBER
Sheppard Gallery presents Prospectives.09 – International Digital Arts Festival
Nov. 12-Dec. 16, Mon.-Th., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., F, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Nov. 12, Opening Lecture, 5:30-6:30 p.m.. and Reception, 6:30-8 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
Prospectives.09 – International Digital Arts Festival (previously RIFNM) invites interdisciplinary graduate and phd students working in digital media to the UNR campus. A juried exhibition in the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, along with two days of performances, symposia, internet art and full-dome projections at other venues. For a full schedule visit http://www.unr.edu/art/prospect2.html or contact 775-784-6658.
Nevada Repertory Company presents Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
directed by Jim Bernardi
Nov. 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 21, 22 at 1:30 p.m.
Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building
Nevada Repertory Company presents one of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet, by Williams Shakespeare and directed by Jim Bernardi. Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written.
$17 General; $15 Seniors, University Students and Children. Season Tickets Available
Nevada Chamber Opera presents Die Fledermaus
by Johann Strauss II
Artistic Director, Damon Stevens,
Director, Sue Klemp
Nov. 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Nevada Chamber Opera presents Johann Strauss’s most popular operetta, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) and will feature a special guest appearance by Nevada Opera soprano, Suzette Thoeni. Celebrate the resiliency of love and friendship in this amusing tale of disguises and desires. After a wild night of carousing, Dr. Falke was left to wander home, drunk and dressed as a bat, by his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein. To exact his revenge, he arranges for von Eisenstein to attend a masked ball at the home of the perpetually bored Russian aristocrat, Prince Orlofsky. There, Eisenstein seduces a mysterious Hungarian countess, who is actually his own wife disguised to secretly witness her husband’s indiscretions….Confusion mounts but after dancing, drinking, and mutual reproach all are able to join in a rousing hymn in praise of Champagne. Die Fledermaus is hailed as one of the 20 most frequently performed operas in North America and will be sung in English. Designed and directed by the creative team from NCO’s recent hit, H.M.S. Pinafore, this new production will be directed by Sue Klemp, with musical direction by Damon Stevens and choreography by Barbara Land.
$15 General; $7 Students
University Orchestra
Nov. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
Join the University Orchestra under the direction of Jason Altieri in a concert featuring music by French composers including “Marche militaire francaise” Camille Saint-Saens; “Mother Goose Suite” by Maurice Ravel; “Dances Sacred and Profane, for Strings and Harp” by Claude Debussy; and “Carmen Suite No.1” by Georges Bizet.
DECEMBER
Argenta presents French Kiss
Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Join Argenta for their second concert of the season “French Kiss” featuring the Rameau’s Piece de Clavecin No. 3, the Faure Trio in d minor, Op. 120 and the Ravel Trio (1914). Argenta is the resident faculty trio at the University of Nevada and features faculty members Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, violin; Dimitri Atapine, cello; and James Winn, piano.
$15 General; $8 Students and Children
University Composer's Concert
Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
Tonight's concert will feature an evening of premieres introducing new works by University student composers.
University Flute Quartet
Dec. 6, 7 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
Members of the University Flute Ensemble will perform a variety of music on an assortment of instruments including piccolos, alto flutes and bass flutes.
University Wind Ensemble presents The Music of Leonard Bernstein
Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
For their second concert of the fall semester the University Wind Ensemble will perform music written exclusively by Leonard Bernstein, one of America’s greatest composers. Included on this evening’s program are the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Overture to Candide and Divertimento.
University Winter Choral Concert
Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
The University of Nevada Choirs celebrate the winter solstice, the holiday season and the end of another musical semester with music by Dave Brubeck, a “Caribbean Carol,” the Southern Harmony tradition, “Carol of the Bells” and others. Please join us for another choral music adventure with students, staff, faculty, and community members lifting their voices in song.
Reno Wind Symphony
Dec. 13, 2009. 3:00 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building • Free
Tonight’s concert will feature band literature with a holiday flare, including A Christmas Festival by American composer Leroy Anderson, Rhapsody for Hanukkah arranged by Stephen Bulla, Ukrainian Bell Carol arranged by Michael Saucedo, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, an arrangement made popular by the group Mannheim Steamroller. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, for Narrator and Band will be one of the highlights of the program.