Portland Choir & Orchestra: Carmina Burana
$25-$40
- Emily Evelyn Way, soprano
- Stacey Murdock, baritone
- David Gustafson, tenor
Carmina Burana, an epic scenic cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, is based on a medieval collection of 24 poems by the same name. Portland Choir & Orchestra will present this musical masterpiece in one matinee performance only at the Rolling Hills Community Church in Tualatin on Saturday 11 May at 2pm.
About Emily Evelyn Way, soprano
About Stacey Murdock, baritone
Stacey Murdock has performed extensively throughout the Northwest in opera, oratorio, and musical theater. Stacey's musical credits include: Poo-Bah in The Mikado, Fredrik Egerman in A little Night Music, the title role in Man of La Mancha, Curly in Oklahoma, and The Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His theater credits include Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and The Ghost of Christmas Present in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. He performs with Portland Opera, most recently as Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, and has also been a member of the Portland Opera to Go outreach program for 9 seasons.
Stacey has appeared frequently with the Astoria Music Festival and Portland Summerfest. He is also a successful concert artist, and has sung with the Sunnyside Symphony Orchestra as the Baritone Soloist in Haydn's Creation, and with the St. James Lutheran Bach Vespers. Stacey has been featured twice by the Beaverton Symphony, first as Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème, and then as Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
About David Gustafson, tenor
Internationally recognized for his robust, expressive voice, tenor David Gustafson made his San Francisco Opera debut in 2010 as Sentinelle in Cyrano De Bergerac starring Placido Domingo.
A frequent oratorio singer, Gustafson has sung masses of Beethoven, Verdi, Mozart, Schubert, and Haydn; Messiah (Handel), and the Magnificat in D and cantatas of J.S. Bach; as well as Carmina Burana (Orff), Rachmaninoff Vespers, Seven Deadly Sins (Weill) and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. In addition, he sang the world premiere, presented by Eugene Symphony, of Robert Kyr's Symphony No. 9, as well as its European premiere in Denmark.
Heard internationally as Count Almaviva (Barbiere) with the Shanghai Broadcasting Orchestra, the production being the Chinese premier of the Rossini masterpiece. In addition to live London performances Gustafson recorded at Abbey Road Studio, London, Prince Hal/Henry V (Getty's Plump Jack) with the London Philharmonia. In 2006 Gustafson headlined the Gala Opening Concert of the Cesky Krumlov International Music Festival in the Czech Republic.