Cascade Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Pops!
$27 / $22 / $15 / $10
Bedřich Smetana — Selected works
Richard Strauss — Selected works
Leroy Anderson — Selected works
Franz Lehár — Selected works
John Wasson — Selected works
Kristin Vogel, soprano
Wasson – Festival Fanfare for Christmas
Smetana – Three Dances from The Bartered Bride (Polka, Furiant, Dance of the Comedians)
White Christmas
Let it snow
The Christmas Song
O Holy Night; Kristin Vogel, soprano
Anderson – Christmas Festival
Strauss – Explosion Polka
Anderson – Forgotten dreams
Anderson – Song of the Bells
Lehar – Meine Lippen sie Küssen so Heiß from Juditta
Lehar – Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Land of Smiles
Herbert – Italian Street Song; Kristin Vogel, soprano
Christmas at the Movies
Music from Five Classic Holiday Films (Home Alone; How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street; The Polar Express; The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Strauss – Radetzky March
A pre-concert lecture will precede this evening's concert beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $27 adults, $22 seniors, $15 students w/ID, $10 youth under 12.
About the soloist
Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice, her intensity onstage, and her well-honed vocal technique, soprano, Kristin Vogel has been honored in multiple international competitions and is sought for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality.
This season Ms. Vogel sang the role of Mimi with Tacoma Opera and will join the Utah Festival Opera this summer as the title role in Madama Butterfly and the Soprano Soloist in their performance of Verdi’s Requiem.
Ms. Vogel recently sang her first Nedda in I Pagliacci with St. Petersburg Opera in Florida, her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Asheville Lyric Opera, and many Mozart heroines in a series of “3 Divas” concerts with Northwest Sinfonietta in Seattle, Tacoma, and Puyallup.
This past season Ms. Vogel jumped in last minute to sing the Soprano Solos in Mozart’s Requiem with the Bellingham Concert Chorale and traveled to Montana to sing the soprano solos in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Helena Symphony Orchestra, where she previously sang “Una Poenitentium/Gretchen” in Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Ms. Vogel’s additional symphonic repertoire includes the soprano solos in Beethoven’s 9th and Mahler’s 2nd Symphonies, Mozart’s Requiem, Debussy’s Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire, and Aaron Copland’s orchestrated Poems of Emily Dickinson, and she frequently performs with Seattle’s Inverted Space Modern Ensemble. Next season Ms. Vogel will be featured as the Soprano Soloist in MGA Productions mounting of Verdi’s Requiem in New York City.
Originally from Texas, Ms. Vogel earned her master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, and has sung with high-profile young artist pro-grams at Des Moines Metro Opera, the Natchez Festival of Music, the Utah Festival Opera, and others. Ms. Vogel is now completing her doctorate at the University of Washington, and she spent spring 2015 in Vienna researching her dissertation as a recipient of the prestigious Fritz Fellowship.
Other recent performances include Pamina in The Magic Flute and Marguerite in Faust with Boheme Opera New Jersey, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Lady Billows in Albert Herring at the University of Washington, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the Natchez Festival of Music, and cross-over, Americana, and operetta repertoire with Mosaïque in Vienna, Austria.