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1984-02-26 ""Estes comes home to dress up symphony""
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LEISURE 8D QUAD-CITY TIMES Sunday, Feb. 26, 1984 Estes comes home to dress up symphony By Shirley Davis QUAD-CITY TIMES Simon Estes, the Iowan who has become one of the top-rated bass-baritones in the world, is returning to his home state as soloist for next weekend's Tri-City Symphony Orchestra concerts. It has just been announced that Estes, 42, will portray Porgy in "Porgy and Bess" during the Metropolitan Opera's 1984-85 season. Estes is a member of the Metropolitan Opera company and has starred in virtually all of the major opera houses of the United States and Europe, in addition to making a long list of appearances with the world's leading orchestras. ESTES, a native of Centerville, Iowa, received his vocal education at the University of Iowa and the Juilliard School in New York City. He told the Quad-CityTimes several years ago, "I'd love to sing with the Tri-City Symphony because I'm an Iowan and because of my Aunt Cecile." His aunt is Cecile Cooper, a long-time resident of Davenport who now lives in Coralville. She hopes to be in the audience at all three concerts -- at 8:30 p.m. March 2 and 3 at Centennial Hall, Augustana College, Rock Island, and at 2 p.m. March 4 at the Davenport Masonic Temple. JAMES Dixon will conduct the orchestra, and Estes will sing arias on both halves of the program. Before intermission he will sing the familiar recitative and air from Handel's "Messiah," "Thus Saith the Lord" and "But Who May Abide." The first-act aria, "Wehe, wehe mir der qual" from Wagner's opera "Parsifal," will end the first half of the concerts. After the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's "Serenade in C for Strings," Estes will again take the stage to sing "Se vuol Ballare" from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Verdi's well-known recitative and aria "Perfidi! All anglo contro me v'unite!" and "Pieta, rispetto, amore" from "Macbeth" will conclude the program. ESTES has made font page news since he won the 1966 Moscow Tchaikovsky competition. His later successes were at the Beyreuth Festival, where the grandson of Richard Wagner chose Estes for the title role of "Der Fliegende Hollander," a part he has sung 18 times in three successive Bayreuth Festivals. He was the first black man to sing in the Bayreuth. Tickets for the Friday and Saturday night concerts range in price from $10.50 to $15; Sunday matinee tickets range from $8 to $11. Reservations can be made with the symphony office, 322-0931. "Student Rush" tickets, at $3.50, are available to full-time students 15 minutes before curtain time. The Sunday Symphony Shuttle bus will provide free transportation to the March 4 concert from points in downtown Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline and Rock Island. [[Photo caption]] Simon Estes
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LEISURE 8D QUAD-CITY TIMES Sunday, Feb. 26, 1984 Estes comes home to dress up symphony By Shirley Davis QUAD-CITY TIMES Simon Estes, the Iowan who has become one of the top-rated bass-baritones in the world, is returning to his home state as soloist for next weekend's Tri-City Symphony Orchestra concerts. It has just been announced that Estes, 42, will portray Porgy in "Porgy and Bess" during the Metropolitan Opera's 1984-85 season. Estes is a member of the Metropolitan Opera company and has starred in virtually all of the major opera houses of the United States and Europe, in addition to making a long list of appearances with the world's leading orchestras. ESTES, a native of Centerville, Iowa, received his vocal education at the University of Iowa and the Juilliard School in New York City. He told the Quad-CityTimes several years ago, "I'd love to sing with the Tri-City Symphony because I'm an Iowan and because of my Aunt Cecile." His aunt is Cecile Cooper, a long-time resident of Davenport who now lives in Coralville. She hopes to be in the audience at all three concerts -- at 8:30 p.m. March 2 and 3 at Centennial Hall, Augustana College, Rock Island, and at 2 p.m. March 4 at the Davenport Masonic Temple. JAMES Dixon will conduct the orchestra, and Estes will sing arias on both halves of the program. Before intermission he will sing the familiar recitative and air from Handel's "Messiah," "Thus Saith the Lord" and "But Who May Abide." The first-act aria, "Wehe, wehe mir der qual" from Wagner's opera "Parsifal," will end the first half of the concerts. After the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's "Serenade in C for Strings," Estes will again take the stage to sing "Se vuol Ballare" from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Verdi's well-known recitative and aria "Perfidi! All anglo contro me v'unite!" and "Pieta, rispetto, amore" from "Macbeth" will conclude the program. ESTES has made font page news since he won the 1966 Moscow Tchaikovsky competition. His later successes were at the Beyreuth Festival, where the grandson of Richard Wagner chose Estes for the title role of "Der Fliegende Hollander," a part he has sung 18 times in three successive Bayreuth Festivals. He was the first black man to sing in the Bayreuth. Tickets for the Friday and Saturday night concerts range in price from $10.50 to $15; Sunday matinee tickets range from $8 to $11. Reservations can be made with the symphony office, 322-0931. "Student Rush" tickets, at $3.50, are available to full-time students 15 minutes before curtain time. The Sunday Symphony Shuttle bus will provide free transportation to the March 4 concert from points in downtown Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline and Rock Island. [[Photo caption]] Simon Estes
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