Waterbury Symphony to Perform April 25

Four professional soloists will be featured in performances of Verdi’s Requiem presented by

the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (WSO) on Saturday April 25th at 8:00 pm and Sunday, April 26th at

3:00 pm. Both performances will take place in the NVCC Fine Arts Center, 750 Chase Parkway and will

also feature a 150-voice chorus comprised of members of the Connecticut Choral Society, the

New Jersey Choral Society and selected singers from the NVCC Chorale.

The featured soloists are four of the brightest emerging talents in the opera world today. Soprano

Laquita Mitchell consistently earns acclaim in eminent opera companies throughout

North America and Europe. Already in her young career, she has led performances with the Los

Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York

City Opera and many others. In her compelling debut as Bess in Porgy and Bess with the San

Francisco Opera, Opera News said “Soprano Laquita Mitchell, in her first outing as Bess,

dazzled the SFO audience with her purity of tone and vivid theatrical presence.”

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein has been likened by the Los Angeles Times to “a young

Horne, so rich is her mezzo and so full of spark was she on stage.” The Santa Barbara

Independent praised her “remarkable, expressive voice reaching through the pain towards

transcendence in a setting of Nietzsche’s ‘Midnight Song’,” and Opera News recently called her

Elvira “a comic delight”.

Hailed by Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times as a “clarion-voice tenor, Dominic

Armstrong has quickly established himself internationally as an artist of superb and

distinguished musicality and characterization. He is a winner of the 2013 George London

Foundation Vocal Competition. Mr. Armstrong began the 2014-2015 season debuting the roles

of Haydn and the Bartender in the world premiere performances of The Classical Style at

the Ojai Festival, Cal Performances, and Carnegie Hall. He also debuted with the New York

Philharmonic, in acclaimed performances of Britten’s Spring Symphony.

Bass-baritone Dean Elzinga has appeared in featured roles at Metropolitan Opera and Los

Angeles Opera and has taken leading roles with Seattle Opera, NY City Opera, Glimmerglass,

and others across the USA, Canada, and in Europe. He has garnered praise in a wide repertoire

from Bach to Wagner. Mr. Elzinga is also one of the country’s sought-after Beethoven Nine

basses, having performed it with Minnesota Orchestra and dozens of other symphony orchestras.

Concert tickets are $50, $30 and $20, available online at www.waterburysymphony.org or through the

WSO office, (203) 574 - 4283. Student rush tickets for $5.00 are available at the box office one hour

before each performance.

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