Saturday, October 7, 8 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Sunday, October 8, 2 p.m.
Augustana College's Centennial Hall, 3703 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island IL
For the first performances in its 2017-18 Masterworks season, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra will take concertgoers on an aural trip to France under the direction of conductor Mark Russell Smith, complete with solos by a pair of international touring stars: soprano Elena Perroni and tenor Daniel Montenegro.
A native of Western Australia, Perroni has studied at the world-renowned Curtis Instiutute of Music, and made her professional opera debut with Opera Philadelphia performing in Charlie Parker's Yardbird at New York City's legendary Apollo Theatre. Additional stage performances have included singing the leading operatic roles of La Bohème's Mimi and Rigoletto's Gilda at the Chautauqua Music Festival, and playing Maria in a Reno Philharmonic production of the musical West Side Story. As The Guardian wrote after a recent concert event, “Perroni makes your spine tingle.”
As for Perroni's fellow Masterworks guest artist, the San Francisco Chronicle recently raved, “Daniel Montenegro reminded an enraptured audience of what real romantic fervor sounds like.” A graduate of San Francisco's prestigious Adler Fellow Opera Program, Montenegro has performed with companies including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and San Diego Opera, and has sung leading roles in such famed operas as La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, and Carmen. He can also be heard performing country-pop in the album Great Voices Sing John Denver alongside operatic names including Plácido Domino.
The Quad City Symphony Orchestra's Paris-themed program boasts Gershwin's An American in Paris, Puccini's Excerpts from La Bohème, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, with tickets to the Masterworks season-opener $8-58 at the Adler Theatre on Saturday and $8-39 at Centennial Hall on Sunday. For more information and to reserve, visit QCSO.org.
