Shakespeare and Music at the Neurosciences Institute
A special program highlighting music from Elizabethan England.
The Neurosciences Institute is proud to host this performance as part of performing arts at the Neurosciences Institute, a series of cultural events presented as a community service to support the arts in San Diego and to underscore the special relationship between the arts and the brain.
Shakespeare Goes to the Opera
The Neurosciences Institute
Monday, November 9, 2009
With over 200 operas based on the play of William Shakespeare it seems only fitting that the San Diego Shakespeare Society should devote their third annual music event to Shakespeare and Opera. This year Shakespeare Goes to the Opera is hosted by Karen Keltner, Resident Conductor of the San Diego Opera. She'll lead us through some of the beautiful and dramatic moments found in some of the best loved Shakespeare-based Operas, sung by local opera stars and accompanied by Johnmark Harris. Verdi, Gounod, Quilter, Vaughan-Williams and much more.
Performers included:
Vox Nobili, William Nolan, Victoria Robertson, Sarah Lopez, and the San Diego Civic Youth Ballet
Hosted by: Maestro Karen Keltner and Accompanist Dr. Johnmark Harris
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November 17, 2008
The music of Shakespeare's plays within the setting of the royal court, featuring Clown Songs, Court Songs, Drinking Songs, Masked Balls, and other frivolity, and it all took place under the watchful eyes of two estranged queens, Elizabeth and Mary. The Mistress of Ceremonies is none other than Jane the Fool, Elizabeth’s only female jester.
Performers included
The acclaimed early music group Courtly Noyse and Vox Nobili.
Cast members includec:
Linda Libby, Tara Pool, Susan Abernethy, Jack Winans, Ed Hollingsworth, Morgan Hollingsworth, Bill Nolan, Julie Clemmons, Steve Jensen, Anthony Hamm, Daniel and Rebecca Myers, Vanessa Dinning, and numerous local children from San Diego County.
From Pat Launer:
… The “Musical Shakespeare Evening,” hosted by the San Diego Shakespeare Society, featuring a stellar cast of characters that spanned artforms (music, theater, dance) was, by all reports, a huge success."
From Others:
"We both tremendously enjoyed the evening. The blend of modern with classical, serious with comedic, was a joy. We were impressed and I know that everyone else thoroughly enjoyed the evening as well."
"Congrats for a well done program at Neurosciences Monday night. And a special "atta-gal" to Vanessa Dinning for her work pulling so many varied and interesting acts together."
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