The stadium concerts this week will be divided into three parts: ballet, symphonic programs and opera. Tonight Willem Van Hoogstraten conducts the orchestra in Weber’s Overture to “Der Freischuetz,” Deems Taylor’s “Through the Looking Glass Suite.” the Prelude and Love and Death from “Tristan and Isolde” and Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony.”
Monday and Tuesday the Fokine Russian Ballet will perform two of the great dance classics created by Michel Fokine, “Scheherezade,” to the music of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and “Les Sylphides,” to selections of Chopin. Howard Barlow will conduct. The program will also include “The Russian Easter” by Rimsky-Korsakoff and a Chopin “Polonaise.” Settings for the ballet are copies of the originals by Leon Bakst. Leading dancers include Albertina Vitak, Leon Barte, Etienne Barone, Michel Markoff and Michel Dido.
On Wednesday Van Hoogstraten offers the Symphony No. 2 of Brahms; La Peri, Dukas; Afternoon of a Faun, Debussy; Roman Carnival, Berlioz. Thursday brings the Fifth Symphony of Tschaikowsky; Suite for Orchestra, Dohnanyi; “Moldau,” Smetana; and the “Voices of Spring,” Johann Strauss.
The Puccini opera, “Madame Butterfly,” will be presented by Alexander Smallens on Friday and Saturday evenings with a cast drawn from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The cast will include Tia Sabanieeva in the title role, Ina Bourskaya as Suzuki, Philine Falco as Kate Pinkerton, Paul Althouse as Pinkerton, Alfredo Gandolfi as Sharpless, Albert Mahler as Goro, Louis D’Angelo as Uncle Proest and Luigi de Cesare as the Imperial Commissary.
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