Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature

Featuring Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra

2024-09-20 20:00 2024-09-20 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36124

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Three extraordinary women unite to pay homage to nature in a blended musical experience that bridges borders and transcends barriers. GRAMMY Award-winning American soprano Renée Fleming brings her album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene to life on-stage with the NAC Orchestra. She will present a new, live, multi-media performance piece, with an original film created for this performance by the National Geographic Society. Fleming sings music ranging from Handel and...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Fri, September 20, 2024
Fri, September 20, 2024
8 PM EDT
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  • MANUEL DE FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain
  • REENA ESMAIL & KALA RAMNATH Concerto for Hindustani Violin
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 2 hours · With intermission

Three extraordinary women unite to pay homage to nature in a blended musical experience that bridges borders and transcends barriers.

GRAMMY Award-winning American soprano Renée Fleming brings her album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene to life on-stage with the NAC Orchestra.

She will present a new, live, multi-media performance piece, with an original film created for this performance by the National Geographic Society. Fleming sings music ranging from Handel and Björk to The Lord of the Rings, with stunning videos captured in locations from the Amazon rainforest to Yosemite, addressing humankind’s complicated relationship with nature.

Guest pianist and Easter Island native Mahani Teave makes her Ottawa debut to perform Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, evoking the nocturnal beauty of nature. 

Acclaimed Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath plays Concerto for Hindustani Violin, which she co-wrote with Indian American composer Reena Esmail to explore the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and sky. 

PROGRAM

MANUEL DE FALLA Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)
REENA ESMAIL AND KALA RAMNATH Concerto for Hindustani Violin

RENÉE FLEMING - VOICE OF NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE

HAZEL DICKENS, ALICE GERRARD “Pretty Bird''
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Care selve” from Atalanta, HWV 35
NICO MUHLY / ROBINSON MEYER, THOMAS TRAHERNE “Endless Space''
JOSEPH CANTELOUBE DE MALARET “Baïlèro” (Shepherd’s Song) from Chants d’auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)
MARIA SCHNEIDER / TED KOOSER “Our Finch Feeder” from Winter Morning Walks
BJÖRK “All is Full of Love''
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (orch. Abel Rocha) “Epilogo” from Floresta do Amazonas (The Amazon Forest)
HOWARD SHORE / PHILIPPA JANE BOYENS “Twilight and Shadow” from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
KEVIN PUTS / DORIANNE LAUX “Evening''
CURTIS GREEN / PEARCE GREEN “Red Mountains Sometimes Cry''
BURT BACHARACH / HAL DAVID “What the World Needs Now Is Love''

Artists

  • Conductor Alexander Shelley
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    Soprano Renée Fleming
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    Piano Mahani Teave
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    Hindustani Violin Kala Ramnath
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    Featuring NAC Orchestra